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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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We're not talking about disagreeing over fiscal policy or whether private schools should receive public funding or the merits of government single-payer healthcare vs. free market insurance or whether the death penalty is an acceptable form of punishment. Those are political issues where reasonable people can have polite disagreements. We're not even talking about whether one should be required to wear a mask in public during a pandemic or whether schools should mandate that all students be vaccinated or whether climate change is caused primarily by humans burning fossil fuels, issues where the scientific evidence very clearly supports one side over the other.
Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer have nothing of value to add to contemporary political discourse and the marketplace of ideas. They are not interested in debating in good faith. They are simply hate merchants who radicalize their viewers into believing that everyone other than straight, white, conservative men are "the enemy". As a private company, YouTube/Alphabet is under no obligation to provide them with a platform from which they can spew their bile. That's not censorship. Their right to free speech is not being infringed. The government isn't locking them up for anything they said. It's no different than when the moderators of CalgaryPuck ban posters with particularly heinous views from this site.