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Okay so you have your wish, there are 10 major video sites in the US who all have 5-20% market share. The forces that push one service moderate content will push the others.

Like there are a lot of social networks, have you noticed that every single one is monitoring for COVID related content and adding a banner?

tldr: competition can't solve political issues because there's a monopoly on government

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There is government pressure (more correctly just social pressure) but the government hasn't given a mandate that these platforms must take this censorship stance.

And even then, this is only an issue because everyone is on just a handful of platforms -- so the companies build one-size-fits-all policies. But we're not all the same size.

I'm not terrified of my community encountering misinformation. I'm far more terrified of a community being unable to articulate and defend why the information is "mis".

"We're flagging problematic posts for Facebook..."

- Jen Psaki 7/15/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0aWGsxyYPg

The US government can't mandate that censorship tact, right? Sounds like a first amendment violation?

The US government is quite happy to start wars all across the world, obviously they are not above leaning on the media to get their point across.

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