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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/7/1/21308297/reddit-facebook-youtube-tiktok-twitch-bans-trump-thedonald-india
Everything that the big social networks banned this week, ranked
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Rarely do we see so many ban hammers drop over a 48-hour period as we have seen this week. The big social platforms, who were once loath to intervene in matters of political speech, are getting much more comfortable with the idea. Today let’s look at what happened and why — and, for the sake of variety, let’s try to rank them in order of their long-term importance.
5. YouTube bans a group of far-right creators. The most remarkable thing about YouTube getting rid of Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, and Richard Spencer, among others, is that it took so long. An exhausted “finally!” is often exclaimed in cases like this — but here even Facebook, which faces near-constant accusations of bending over backwards to appease the far right, had...
Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/interface/2020/7/1/21308297/reddit-facebook-youtube-tiktok-twitch-bans-trump-thedonald-india
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