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YouTube is a company and can do what they want, clearly. These people they ban are ####ty people basically, so while it's not a big loss, I do wonder when a private company as a platform becomes too central to the spread of it's information that it becomes more than just a company.

I'm fine with these guys getting banned, but I think the necessary change is to YouTube's algorithm so if someone views some reprehensible video it doesn't proceed to pummel them head first down the rabbit hole to keep their emotional levels ramped and thus their engagement time higher.

If I watch a Steve Bannon interview or a debate he's part of on I2, I don't really need YouTube to assume that this is all I want to watch now. A few clicks and your recommendation feed really goes straight to hell. This is more the Tristan Harris point of view where the fundamental methods of these places are totally toxic as much as the videos that are on them.

The platforms themselves need a reckoning, and not just some whack a mole bans.