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Should Youtube remove conspiracy theory videos? 9/11, Sandyhook, Vaxing, etc?

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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I really enjoy a good conspiracy video, and often, they do present things that can open your mind to things.

Now they seem to be all gone.

I know youtube said they were removing Sandyhook because people were contacting the parents of the victims and calling them liars, so they said that victims shouldn't be harrassed, etc.

But why remove 9/11 videos?

Or the Joe Biden touching girls inappropriately and moving into their personal space?

There should be a place on the web where freedom of speech exists and freedom of information.

[–] NormaAndNorman (3900) 4 years ago

YouTube protects the left, buries stuff so it's harder to find or deletes it completely. Google, same thing (who owns YT).
They censor what they want for whatever reason they want. A better search engine is DuckDuckGo.

I can see how it can only add to them believing any given conspiracy theory even more when this happens.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Yes that's it, they bury things so that they don't come up in results. They're essentially making videos 'private'.

[–] kukuxu (5409) 4 years ago

If those sites were uploading videos with Biden sexually harassing, I guess that's the reason. No need to look further. Mainstream media is gonna try to protect Biden as much as possible.

This is just the starting.

[–] Theman (1065) 4 years ago

[–] actionkamen (23176) 4 years ago

YouTube is not the press. They don't need freedom.

[–] RamsesTheGreat (323) 4 years ago

Google/Youtube created COVID virus in their labs. They are sinister.

[–] Redsfan001 (6003) 4 years ago

Conspiracy theories can lead the gullible with a half baked world view into a frenzy.

The Clinton pedo pizza gate incident was believed by a 27 year old kid who took a rifle into the shop.

Sandy Hook parents who lost their kids had to endure death threats from nut jobs who believed a conspiracy that it was staged.

YouTube wants no part of that. The company can't just take a crackpots wacky world view, post it, make a profit from the clicks, and then claim no responsibility for the idiots who believe it and go out and hurt someone.

If you are so concerned you are free to create a website for all the conspirtal minded to post their videos. (Alex Jones has made a career out of this)

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Youtube sleuths showed me that the Boston Bombing used crisis actors. I believe those videos are gone now. If the government did do that, or 'augment' it, that's in the public interest. Most companies go beyond just 'clicks' and 'ad revenue'.

[–] Catbookss (13664) 4 years ago

Those "YouTube sleuths" also insisted a catastrophe that happened near me, which I know beyond on doubt happened, was fake and "crisis actors" were used to do it 🙄. There's no reasoning with conspiracy nuts.

[–] Redsfan001 (6003) 4 years ago

Are you aware of the term 'Deep Fakes'?

A Deep Fake is a ability to manipulate or manufacturer a video by way of computer software.

These deep fakes have become so good, that to the untrained eye the viewer cannot tell that they have been manipulated. Conspiracy theorist are using these types of computer graphic software to CHANGE videos to support their theories.

Russia is extremely interested in this.Putins long-term goal is to re-establish Soviet era dominance to the world. A short term goal is to instill distrust in the American government by it's own people.

Allowing YouTube to have a hands off policy toward Deep Fakes is absurd. It would erode trust in US institutions. It would allow conspiracy theorist to create newly engineered videos to lie to the American public. It would also enable Putin to send in his minons to create millions of fake videos for the US viewers to digest.

This is why the videos you seek have been removed.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

It is up to them, being a private company, but if they want to support freedom of speech, of course not.

[–] Martoto (4142) 4 years ago

Supporting freedom of speech doesn't obligate you to provide everyone with a platform.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

I know one of the parents of a Sandy Hook victim. He is specifically pointed to as part of the "hoax" b/c of his demeanor. I worked with him for over a year so I know his personality and his political beliefs. He's an understated guy and a Conservative who didn't cry about gun control after the incident, yet certain factions suggested he was an actor shilling for the other side, with videos of the same. They turned the worst day of his life into an additional ongoing hell of accusation and harassment.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

That moron Alex Jones started that Sandy Hook nonsense.

[–] dmac8 (5050) 4 years ago

The poor guy was overseas on business when he got the call from his wife.