YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”
Lets keep in mind that YouTube has been around for 14 years... In societal terms that&#x27;s a relatively short amount of time to have a free platform where anyone can post their ideas, no matter how crazy or toxic.<p>Before that, you could blog.<p>Before that, you could stand on a street corner and yell, or maybe use a megaphone.<p>The platforms for broadcasting your message to a large audience were mostly gated, often by large corporations. TV, Newspaper, Radio, etc.<p>It seems to me that what we are seeing is more like reversion to the mean.<p>It was great in the early days of the internet, because the communities were small, and often self policing. But once they get large enough it&#x27;s very easy for the noise to overwhelm the signal. This idea of absolute free speech didn&#x27;t scale once the population got large enough.<p>I don&#x27;t even use Facebook and Twitter anymore because of this. (I also generally opt out of ad supported anything)<p>I&#x27;m really not convinced that providing a cheap &#x2F; free platform for anyone to amplify their message was actually a net good. Not anymore at least. Like I said, it doesn&#x27;t scale.<p>Before, the crazy and toxic could yell on the street corner. Now they have Twitter, Facebook and YouTube to shout their conspiracy theories etc.<p>IMO, we&#x27;re overdue for scaling some of that back.<p>There is the right to say and think whatever you want. That does not imply the right to have your message amplified to millions.