Odysee refuses to censor Russia Today (RT)

Personally, I think that the automatic cry of "censorship" as an unarguably, obviously bad thing is a red flag. It suggests that somebody hasn't thought something all the way through -- or at least, has only considered the ways it affects them and not anybody else. It's one of those positions that is consistent, simple, and awful -- and therefore much beloved of people who prize the first two things.

People who care about not being awful are put in the awful position of dealing with a world that is neither consistent nor simple. People who deal in lies will always be happy to tell you that nothing is ever settled scientifically, no matter how thoroughly they are refuted. People who deal in hate will always tell you that their opinions are just as valid as anybody else's, and therefore not subject to truth considerations.

I am willing to accept those contradictions, and deal with them, rather than constrain the world to a simplicity just because it's easier. But there are a lot of people who won't.

Otherwise there's no much point to a new video sharing site. Even if you start being uncensored, if you get big enough you'll either be forced to start censoring or be disconnected from the payment processors.

Not that I'm against censorship, there's a lot of stuff I don't want to ever see. But would be good if we could choose our own censors and to have clear rules. What we have now most of the time is not even censorship of specific content. It's more a soft of "network pruning" of central nodes of certain communities.