Anyone can make any crazy claim they want in a lawsuit. I could probably sue someone today claiming the earth was flat or Elvis is still alive if I wanted to. Do we reserve judgment on these topics just because someone sued someone else over them?
No, but we also shouldn’t censor people for making those claims. It seems to be the attitude of many big tech companies that their users are too dumb to look at information and decide for themselves what is and isn’t true.
I see it more as doing their part to reduce the noise rather than contribute to the problem. And it’s a big problem.
This is not the same argument as
> These same claims are being made in ongoing court cases.
I think your argument is definitely worth considering, but the “there are court cases” is clearly wrong.
This seems demonstrably true for vast swathes of users, who have become enamored with Flat Eartherism and other such nonsense. Not saying censorship is necessarily the right solution, but arguing on behalf of the reasoning capabilities of the user base is clearly misguided.
The alternative you're condoning is to make decisions for these people and tell them what to think; that is tyranny.
E.g. By not assuming good cognitive ability for people, you are setting them up to be controlled, that you agree with censorship or not.
TIL not repeating lies is tyranny.
No I'm not. Transmission is a kind of repetition, but some people seem to think that YouTube has some obligation to transmit (i.e. repeat) their lies about "widespread election fraud." It's not a government service, so there's no First Amendment aspect to this at all, and the allegations themselves are disingenuous lies, so YouTube's moral obligation is on the side of removal.
Also my argument wasn't even about this, it was that if you assume stupidity of a big portion of the population, you have no alternative but to turn to tyranny.
Now the uneducated masses can yell and yell and yell, which gives other uneducated masses the false belief that their opinions are to be respected.
And, yet, YouTube isn't censoring flat earthers.