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		vikingerik on Sept 29, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and bloc... > People are going to cheer that "wackos" will no longer have a platform. And if you deplatform wackos, you just create incentive to decry everything as wacko in order to ban it. The way to combat misinformation is in the free market of ideas and discourse. Not by banning it. That's just might-makes-right.

goatlover on Sept 29, 2021 [–]

Problem is that combating misinformation in the free market hasn't been working so well. While I agree this is fine for most things, there are exceptions such as a pandemic or when a powerful political figure can invoke a riot.

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