Indeed. Which standard do you, gentle Slashdot read, want: * Videos that people want to put up, and that people want to see; or * A curated selection of videos that are best for you, as judged by your betters
We know that oppressive governments the world round demand the second option. Which should you demand?
"To know who rules you, ask: who am I not allowed to criticize in public? Those are your rulers."
It used to be the case that a higher education was good for exposing young minds to challenging ideas, and thereby teaching them to stare with resolve into the deep abyss that is existence, and to rebut bad arguments with good arguments.
However, collectivist authoritarians (namely Marxists) began their "long march" through the Institutions of the West; in the Universities, they started curbing speech by setting up "safe spaces", and then once the "safe" space spread across most of a campus, they started des
by Anonymous Coward writes:
on Tuesday April 02, 2019 @02:31PM (#58373076)
And this has to do with YouTube how exactly? You saying "Marxists are marching through YouTube?" Or are you saying higher education makes people less tolerant of toxic spew? Or what?
And this "rebut bad arguments with good arguments" is quite laughable. Toxic morons don't argue; they don't reason with facts and logic; they just make stuff up and yell it as loud as they can. And in the process they manage to convince a few more weak-minded souls, who also don't listen to reason, and then things snowball to the point where you have a critical mass of, say, anti-vaxxers who now pose an active threat to the rest of the community. So yeah, I would have no problem with YouTube not giving a platform to nutjobs. Which, by the way, is not the same thing as censorship.
Good (Score:1, Insightful)
I see no problem here (except with some employees who are complaining, who should probably be fired).
Re: (Score:5, Insightful)
Indeed. Which standard do you, gentle Slashdot read, want:
* Videos that people want to put up, and that people want to see; or
* A curated selection of videos that are best for you, as judged by your betters
We know that oppressive governments the world round demand the second option. Which should you demand?
"To know who rules you, ask: who am I not allowed to criticize in public? Those are your rulers."
Collectivists took over Universities. (Score:2, Interesting)
It used to be the case that a higher education was good for exposing young minds to challenging ideas, and thereby teaching them to stare with resolve into the deep abyss that is existence, and to rebut bad arguments with good arguments.
However, collectivist authoritarians (namely Marxists) began their "long march" through the Institutions of the West; in the Universities, they started curbing speech by setting up "safe spaces", and then once the "safe" space spread across most of a campus, they started des
Re:Collectivists took over Universities. (Score:0)
And this has to do with YouTube how exactly? You saying "Marxists are marching through YouTube?" Or are you saying higher education makes people less tolerant of toxic spew? Or what?
And this "rebut bad arguments with good arguments" is quite laughable. Toxic morons don't argue; they don't reason with facts and logic; they just make stuff up and yell it as loud as they can. And in the process they manage to convince a few more weak-minded souls, who also don't listen to reason, and then things snowball to the point where you have a critical mass of, say, anti-vaxxers who now pose an active threat to the rest of the community. So yeah, I would have no problem with YouTube not giving a platform to nutjobs. Which, by the way, is not the same thing as censorship.