This piece lost me the moment I saw the image created to visualize the content.
The big "censored" banner across made me instantly regret clicking it.
If people, and (I need to use it here) so called "journalists" don't know the difference between a private corporation and a nation state I just can't tske anything they produce seriously.
You can't be censored by YouTube. You can be deplatformed if you would like to call it that way. But until a government forced YouTube to not show your content to their citizens you are not being censored.
The outcome might be the same, but there is still a structural difference between me showing someone the door as I don't like what they say on my platform and the government coming and gagging them.
Maybe I am just to sensitive to the usage of the term, but imho it denigrates the victims of actual censorship.
The big "censored" banner across made me instantly regret clicking it.
If people, and (I need to use it here) so called "journalists" don't know the difference between a private corporation and a nation state I just can't tske anything they produce seriously.
You can't be censored by YouTube. You can be deplatformed if you would like to call it that way. But until a government forced YouTube to not show your content to their citizens you are not being censored.
The outcome might be the same, but there is still a structural difference between me showing someone the door as I don't like what they say on my platform and the government coming and gagging them.
Maybe I am just to sensitive to the usage of the term, but imho it denigrates the victims of actual censorship.