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It’s different because they can get it elsewhere. Government censorship makes any source illegal. Extreme government censorship puts you in jail for reading about a dangerous idea.

A company censoring information on their platform seems deeply different, no?




> A company censoring information on their platform seems deeply different, no?

Not necessarily; I think that is the crux of the discussion.

From a legal point of view it is deeply different. From a practical point of view it's not so clear. If a video isn't on Youtube, for many it's the same as not existing at all. For example, my Roku can show YouTube videos, but cannot access arbitrary urls.

In general, platforms are not supposed to discriminate, while Publishers do. This particular case makes that distinction far less obvious. I'd like to see some alternative, such as markings, instead of a simple include or not.


Your points are related to user behavior, not platform-provider behavior.




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