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Comment by collyw | Hacker News Reader

"hate groups and extremists"

Have you got any evidence of this, because it sounds like bullshit?

Try https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/aug/13/james-dam... for a start, which is quite well cited and referenced.

Stefan Molyneux and Jordan Peterson are just right-of-center. They aren't hate groups or extremists. Peterson in particular is emphatically reasonable and moderate, if a bit disagreeable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Molyneux provides a substantial amount of evidence to the contrary, for starters.

he's a right wing libertarian and has been involved in some controversies. when someone says right wing extremist I think of the neo-Nazi's in Charlottesville, not some blogger with anti-authoritarian views.

It's really amusing to watch the sudden edits of that article by IP addresses very shortly after posting my comment.

Here is the version of the article I was citing, for the record: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stefan_Molyneux&o... I would recommend reading that version, rather than the rapidly "sanitized" version that omits various unfavorable media citations.

> Peterson is not an alt-right figure and cannot be held responsible for the “recommended” content that his viewers come across on YouTube.

> However viewers of Peterson’s videos arrived at his YouTube channel, research by the Guardian suggests they can quickly be pulled into alarming content.

Sounds like Google is the one at fault here...

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