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[24gttghh → srkmno]

That's not how the 1st Amendment works:

>Congress shall make no law [...] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; [...]

[brazzy → srkmno]

Nope. Please inform yourself what "free-speech" means.

[JoeAltmaier → brazzy]

And be nuanced. Freedom of speech is an American ideal, and a Constitutional Amendment.

[tombert → JoeAltmaier]

I make no argument against YouTube being basically a free-speech zone, and I wouldn't suggest banning people for purely ideological reasons, because I agree that that would be against the American Ideal.

That said, if I were hosting my own video-sharing website, there's no way in hell I would recommend a white-supremacist video, or even a flat-earth video. If people find it on their own, that's on them, but for the same reason that I personally wouldn't pass along flyers for thedailystormer, I wouldn't promote someone like Alex Jones.

[tombert → srkmno]

For the same reason that the NY Times is not required to platform white supremacists, and the same reason that I don't have to host Nazi Propaganda on my website, it is part of YouTube's free speech to platform whomever they want.