YouTube bans coronavirus-related content that directly contradicts WHO advice
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.<p>WHO is a political organization with medical leanings just like Fox News is an entertainment channel that covers newslike topics.<p>Yes, there&#x27;s a lot of information out there about SARS-COV2 and COVID-19 infections out there that are downright misleading at best and life threatening at worst.<p>No, censoring that content including videos is NOT the role of a hosting platform.<p>We already have examples of central authorities pushing &quot;information&quot; that they agree with and supressing information they believe is &quot;incorrect&quot; - as a freeish country, we should absolutely not encourage this behavior.<p>The argument can be made that Youtube is a private company and free to do as they please.<p>I personally dont agree with that argument - to a regular random person, Youtube is synonymous with video content.<p>Youtube is the news.<p>Perhaps one solution for Youtube would be to demonetize and label such content as &quot;unsafe&quot; aka &quot;don&#x27;t sue me bro mode&quot;.<p>Anyone who&#x27;s a minor doesnt get to see this &quot;unsafe&quot; content.<p>Anyone who watches the content with &quot;unsafe&quot; mode on, sees the content.<p>Give customers the choice to choose and make up their own minds.<p>Removing content with the authority of being the primary video content platform? They don&#x27;t get away so easy.<p>With power comes responsibility.<p>They have to handle this another way and this, is not it.