YouTube Will Redirect Searches For Extremist Videos To Anti-Terrorist Playlists
This recent trend is really worrisome.
YouTube also shut down quite a lot of channels in connection with the Syrian civil war. Reddit too closed down a couple of subreddits, and admins banned users who shared ISIS related content on the &#x2F;r&#x2F;syriancivilwar&#x2F; subreddit.<p>What an utterly useless and counterproductive exercise in de facto censorship. The only thing this does is drive people deeper into the underground, even closer to actual extremists.<p>Extremist ideas need to be fought with rational discourse, drag them out into the open and let the sunshine disinfect them.
Trying to hide them out of sight, like they don&#x27;t exist, only makes them fester all the more in secret and partly legitimizes these extremists in their view of being unjustly persecuted.