Private business should be banned of course :stalin-shining: , but YT censorship IS a free speech issue even if you allow private platforms to limit speech. YouTube is owned by Google and Google is a federal contractor. Allowing YouTube to censor is indirectly allowing the government to censor. (Argument stolen from Second Thought themselves.)
Nah. This is pretty much entirely incorrect, there is no requirement for federal contractors to have to platform anyone. It's just not a 1st amendment issue, but that shouldn't be the point because the constitution sucks ass anyways.
Private business should be banned of course :stalin-shining: , but YT censorship IS a free speech issue even if you allow private platforms to limit speech. YouTube is owned by Google and Google is a federal contractor. Allowing YouTube to censor is indirectly allowing the government to censor. (Argument stolen from Second Thought themselves.)
Nah. This is pretty much entirely incorrect, there is no requirement for federal contractors to have to platform anyone. It's just not a 1st amendment issue, but that shouldn't be the point because the constitution sucks ass anyways.
there isn't, but there should be