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I think the problem with this is that the censorship is invoked by companies against individuals, in the broad strokes, not by the government. It's hard to convince the public that corporations have power approaching or surpassing governments nowadays...

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That's such an often repeated and weird argument. Censorship isn't dangerous because of who is doing it but because of what it does. Censorship inhibits the spread of information and ideas, thus inhibiting the democratic process.

YouTube is effectively a monopoly. You can upload your video elsewhere, but next to nobody will see it. That gives YouTube equal censorship power as a government censor. We should be equally appalled by it.

The punlic has undersood that state censorship is bad. But the new censorship systen has a layer of indirection built in in that companies are going to do the censoring instead baswd on voluntary terms of service and stuff. This is a pattern that seems little understood and therefore encounters less opposition.

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