> booting people off platforms is a "bad idea" which you wish to "suppress".
Not censoring an idea and arguing that an idea should not be implemented are not equivalent.
> booting people off platforms shines a light on their "bad ideas"
If this is true, i.e. reporting of the censorship increases the visibility of the bad idea, then it completely destroys the pro-censorship argument that it reduces the visibility of bad ideas. It would also immediately cease to be true if censorship ever became uncontroversial, in which case you couldn't claim that it's giving the allegedly bad idea a chance at a fair debate.
> I'm sympathetic to the spirit of your comment, but I think Mr Icke has plenty of other ways to publish his ideas, and I don't believe youtube is suppressing them in a way that necessitates suppression of theirs.
Is somebody suggesting that YouTube should be prohibited from creating and distributing their own videos?
Not censoring an idea and arguing that an idea should not be implemented are not equivalent.
> booting people off platforms shines a light on their "bad ideas"
If this is true, i.e. reporting of the censorship increases the visibility of the bad idea, then it completely destroys the pro-censorship argument that it reduces the visibility of bad ideas. It would also immediately cease to be true if censorship ever became uncontroversial, in which case you couldn't claim that it's giving the allegedly bad idea a chance at a fair debate.
> I'm sympathetic to the spirit of your comment, but I think Mr Icke has plenty of other ways to publish his ideas, and I don't believe youtube is suppressing them in a way that necessitates suppression of theirs.
Is somebody suggesting that YouTube should be prohibited from creating and distributing their own videos?