YouTube and Facebook have shown they need regulation. There’s an old, good way to do it.
That flapping noise you might have heard earlier this week was the sound of YouTube winging it. We’ve included more info below to explain this decision: — TeamYouTube #StayHome June 4, 2019 Then on Wednesday morning, YouTube announced that as part of a stricter policy against hate speech, it would remove thousands of videos that promote Nazism, white supremacy, and other hateful ideologies that endorse the thinking that one group of people is superior to another. What almost everyone would probably agree on is this: Social media platforms like YouTube are a mess, and every time they try to clean up their mess, they fail in one way or another. Regulating social media platforms in the exact same way broadcasters were regulated decades ago doesn’t make sense. People also rely on social media to get information to make decisions about where they’ll send their kids to school, their health care, and whom they’ll vote for.
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