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So you're saying that youtube should only ban illegal videos and allow any video that is legal? So youtube should allow porn, gore, etc?

Freedom of speech only says the government can't stop your speech. It doesn't say that private organizations have to provide you a platform. Youtube also has freedom of speech. They have the freedom to filter and compile videos that they like and only show those. It's also not youtube's responsibility to optimize their site for helping the NSA to track terrorists.

If I create a website that allows people to upload videos, it's perfectly fine for me to filter those videos and only show the ones I like. It's my website after all, I am allowed to control what is on it.

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>So youtube should allow porn, gore, etc?

It had, for ages.

>Youtube also has freedom of speech. They have the freedom to filter and compile videos that they like and only show those.

Sure they do. I wish they were honest about their political ideology before they touted the platform for all to come and participate.

>It's my website after all, I am allowed to control what is on it.

Sure you are. I just wish you had advertised as such before content creators invested time and money into the platform, creating user base for you. That's a bait and switch, no different than Apache to AGPL license change on 27.8.3 version of your successful GitHub project.

A private entity and a public corporation and government are three different levels of individual discriminatory behavior. A private person or business can employ any discriminatory practice they see fit, as you yourself say. A government is held at highest standard of equality for all. A publicly traded corporation is somewhere in between the government and a private citizen.

Youtube allowed porn for ages? Here's an article from 2006 saying youtube at that time banned porn, and made no reference to it being allowed in the past.[1]

Youtube doesn't hide the fact that it bans certain content.[2] And this page isn't new, in fact it looks nearly identical to how it did in 2013.[3]

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2006/07/25/youtube-has-porn-clone/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/yt/policyandsafety/policy.html

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20130416013037/https://www.youtu...

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