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Originally Posted by Matata
Anyone who celebrates the censorship of someone they politically disagree needs to get their head checked.
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Being banned from Youtube is not censorship.
That said, I generally agree that attempting to remove voices you don't agree with is problematic particularly if that voice belongs to an honest actor and not just someone trying to stir up ####. But where does one draw the line? I'm not a lawyer but generally speaking the law has determined that hate speech and yelling "fire" in a crowded theater is illegal. Molyneux, and people like him, linguistically tip-toe the line with enough dog-whistling and innuendo for listeners to understand what he's saying while still allowing him to have plausible deniability, at least from a semantic argument.
If he was an honest actor that was willing to listen to reason and change his stance based on reason that would be one thing. But he is not an honest actor. He has made it clear that he is a bigot and his mission is to spread hate and misinformation.