> Once again YouTube is standing against free speech.
No, exercising it.
> Yes, most of you will cheer for it just as you did when Twitter banned Trump.
Well, I mean, its better than when Twitter rewrote its rule to officially privilege those in established positions of power to justify not taking actions against Trump's regular and egregious violations of their rules.
> Don't expect people like me to support you when you complain about YouTube banning e.g. Russian activists.
I don't expect that anyway. I expect people like you to continue to pursue the position that it is impermissible for YouTube to choose not to relay propaganda of your faction because it is somehow contrary to free speech rights for them to do so, while not taking that position for viewpoints you are less interested in, all while chanting the virtues of supporting speech you disagree with.
I, on the other hand, will continue to view it as within YouTube’s free speech rights to choose not to relay either kind of content, but undesirable for other reasons in certain cases (and, where it is bot a free choice by YouTube but compelled by a government seeking to suppress dissent, a violation of free speech by the government involved, not YouTube.)
> Part of supporting free speech is that you have to support the speech you don't agree with.
No, it isn't.
Part of supporting free speech is that you have to support the right of people to express viewpoints you disagree with, including by declining to relay the positions you do agree with.
(It also doesn't mean you have to support their choice to express those viewpoints, or the manner in which they do it, only their right to do it.)
No, exercising it.
> Yes, most of you will cheer for it just as you did when Twitter banned Trump.
Well, I mean, its better than when Twitter rewrote its rule to officially privilege those in established positions of power to justify not taking actions against Trump's regular and egregious violations of their rules.
> Don't expect people like me to support you when you complain about YouTube banning e.g. Russian activists.
I don't expect that anyway. I expect people like you to continue to pursue the position that it is impermissible for YouTube to choose not to relay propaganda of your faction because it is somehow contrary to free speech rights for them to do so, while not taking that position for viewpoints you are less interested in, all while chanting the virtues of supporting speech you disagree with.
I, on the other hand, will continue to view it as within YouTube’s free speech rights to choose not to relay either kind of content, but undesirable for other reasons in certain cases (and, where it is bot a free choice by YouTube but compelled by a government seeking to suppress dissent, a violation of free speech by the government involved, not YouTube.)
> Part of supporting free speech is that you have to support the speech you don't agree with.
No, it isn't.
Part of supporting free speech is that you have to support the right of people to express viewpoints you disagree with, including by declining to relay the positions you do agree with.
(It also doesn't mean you have to support their choice to express those viewpoints, or the manner in which they do it, only their right to do it.)