Attorney
Viva Frei discusses how one post on his video channel where he discussed the
legal details of a deposition related to the lawsuit against Alex Jones by
families from Sandy Hook, was removed by YouTube, after first being shadow banned.
Toward the
end of the video, Frei admits that some topics might have to be off the table on
YouTube and other user generated content in the future. But if so, then a
journalist who uses the platform at all might call his own reputation for objectivity
into question.
Here is a
rather long Twitter thread from this morning.
I had
suggested that I looked at Redicetv and didn’t see anything obviously w.s.,
just normal conservatism.
There would
occur a couple tweets about the idea that (1) I was willing to give possible
hidden or stochastic Nazi-sympathetic sites and YouTube channels the benefit of
the doubt in order to protect free speech, but (2) I would not give Carlos Maza
the benefit of the doubt in insisting that deliberately anti-gay channels be
deplatformed.
The calculation
seems to be that with (2) Carlos believes that some material like Crowder’s
will tempt “enemies” or unstable people to attack more vulnerable LGBT people
(trans and fluid and low-income and POC), even though the same people probably
don’t threaten me as someone who is better off. Protecting human life takes a
higher priority than protecting individualized free speech. But if this is true, individuals like me must
become more comfortable with functioning as parts of groups than on their own.
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