Current Events > YouTube will now remove videos alleging 2020 election was fraudulent.

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YouTube noted that its policies already prohibit videos alleging that fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical US presidential election, but "in some cases, that has meant allowing controversial views on the outcome or process of counting votes of a current election, as election officials have worked to finalize counts." Now that enough states have certified their results to determine Biden is president-elect, YouTube will remove any piece of content uploaded Wednesday or afterward "that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election."

https://www.cnet.com/news/youtube-will-remove-any-new-videos-alleging-trump-lost-election-because-of-fraud/

There's still a ton of videos spreading other misinformation, like flat Earth and anti vax. Why aren't those deleted too?
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Youtube does something right for once.

Of course, this will just fuel the loonies' victim complexes.

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Why not just wait till the electoral college vote is in? Isn't it this monday?
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Great, that just makes them dig their heels further because of victim complex.
Probably not a great move. They probably woulf have shut up in a year.
Goodness knows the backlash this will cause

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Solar_Crimson posted...

Youtube does something right for once.

Of course, this will just fuel the loonies' victim complexes.

This is the equivalent of having a guy come in to your house, throw trash everywhere, piss on the floor of the bathroom, and wipe boogers on you wall and then you're like "are you going to clean any of this fucking shit up?" So he picks up one piece of trash and throws it out and now it's like "at least they did something right"

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Tyranthraxus posted...

This is the equivalent of having a guy come in to your house, throw trash everywhere, piss on the floor of the bathroom, and wipe boogers on you wall and then you're like "are you going to clean any of this fucking shit up?" So he picks up one piece of trash and throws it out and now it's like "at least they did something right"

But YouTube is enjoyable whereas a stranger trashing my house wouldnt be.

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iPhone_7 posted...

But YouTube is enjoyable whereas a stranger trashing my house wouldnt be.

The stranger comes with funny videos

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Tsuyoi3 posted...

Great, that just makes them dig their heels further because of victim complex.
Probably not a great move. They probably woulf have shut up in a year.
Goodness knows the backlash this will cause

This. YouTube has always allowed conspiracy theorists of all types to post stuff on their site. Them deciding to be the arbiter of the truth now could lead to huge ramifications.

You've been able to say Bush did 9/11 since youtube launched but you cant say Trump won the election?

Meh. It's google's website, google can do whatever the hell it wants.

Tyranthraxus posted...

This is the equivalent of having a guy come in to your house, throw trash everywhere, piss on the floor of the bathroom, and wipe boogers on you wall and then you're like "are you going to clean any of this fucking shit up?" So he picks up one piece of trash and throws it out and now it's like "at least they did something right"

Close.
It's the equivalent of a guy coming into your house and leaving boogers everywhere, another guy who shits on your floor, another guy who leaves socks everywhere, and another guy who draws on your walls with sharpies, but you only bother to pick up the socks for some reason.

About 4-5 years too late

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Good