The issue of YouTube censorship is something I have mixed views about.
I know they censor flat earth content - I’m not sure if they remove the videos but they certainly flag them as untrue. Should they? It makes them the arbiter of truth. And does it really matter if people want to believe in the earth being flat? Up to a point it doesn’t. But I do think truth is important and it is worrying how people increasingly fall down conspiracy theory rabbit holes.
With other things, there are potential health implications for misinformation.
If someone on here started posting how, I dunno, drinking bleach is a good way of preventing Covid then should I just let that go? What if someone drinks bleach and then dies? That’s on me, isn’t it? Shouldn’t I do something?
I see this whole area as problematic. I don’t like the idea of censorship but I do think there is an increasing problem of misinformation which needs dealing with. The real issue is who decides what is true and what isn’t? What information is harmful and what isnt?
I don’t have a good answer but I do think misinformation and how to tell fact from lie is increasingly difficult.