RE:RE:YouTube
ValuePro wrote: While I partially subscribe to Libertarian thought, monopolistic private enterprise in utilities is not compatible with Liberty. Consumers need choices among suppliers of information to give value to many of our constitutional rights.
So, congratulations to Bob on his latest award and indoctrination into cancel culture. He is another brick from the wall that must eventually evoke the US government to take back control of the Web (as happens in different forms in other countries). After all, the US government created the Web and freely gave it to the world without restriction. Now the lack of restrictions comes back to bite us. It is time for them to come back and oversee Web use as a government utility operating it in a competitive environment to ensure generalized freedom of thought - Right, Left, and indifferent.
VP
This discussion about censorship on the internet is an interesting one as well.
Being blocked on YouTube or Twitter is not really the same as being kicked off the web or censored. It's simply being removed from these sites. Not much different than being banned from CNN is not like being banned from the news itself.
The less satisfying and more mediocre these existing social media sites become , the more likely new ones will spring up to serve people with other preferences. Either way, no one is banned from the web itself.
Now, if your complaint is that social media sites like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc are controlling the thoughts of 85% of our population. Well, maybe it's because 85% of our population volunteered to use their "free" service and are happy to let these media platforms do the thinking for them. Maybe 85% of our population is fundamentally stupid. Could that be?
Take for example Ex-Buffoon-in-Chief Donald Trump himself. He used Twitter prolificly to become President, used Twitter to post his moronic thoughts while sitting on the throne, and then finally gets flushed from Twitter like yesterday's news.
Joe Biden is by far the best threat to social media's ability to control of his narrative. He is too senile, incompetent, and incoherent to even post a message himself.
In the end, Bill Gates and company are probably onto the correct course of action. Inundate the masses with controlled propaganda which they voluntarily seek, impair them with a man made illness of both body and mind, inoculate them with whatever poison renders them controllable, and reduce their ability to breed and wander about the farmyard recklessly.
Who knows how all these characters will be judged from some future vantage point. But I expect that it likely won't matter, and no one will really care. As long as their mouths are stuffed, they remain over entertained, and comfortable in knowing that all is well and that they are being cared for.
One Warning though: If any of those enablers of human depravity and mediocrity cannot be maintained, then look out. There is going to be a lot of rabid farm animals loose in their pens.
Censorship is not so much the disease. It is voluntary compliance, mental submission, and embracement of mediocrity that is the cancer.
Tx