Against Big Tech Viewpoint Discrimination

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3 pointsMelchizedek3 comments

Bog standard "this is censorship!!!!" with an additional slippery slope of "what if we have a president friendly with social media companies?"

> [block lists meaning] anyone who wished could live in an information bubble protected from views clashing with their cherished beliefs

Crowder was relentlessly targeting someone with homophobic abuse. I don't think being against that counts as wanting to live in an information bubble. Plus it doesn't solve the problem of him being able to broadcast that to 3M+ subscribers without penalty.

If it were legal, do you think that the power company should cut off electricity to Crowder?

If he's using it to systematically target and harass people (which has already been clearly demonstrated), I would be 100% ok with them denying him electricity for those purposes, yep. Of course, he's paying for the service, which I suspect he isn't for his YouTube access, which complicates things slightly but still, if it was against the power company T&Cs for access to the grid, yep, cut him off.

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