<story><title>YouTube permanently bans Right Wing Watch</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-permanently-bans-right-wing-watch-a-media-watchdog-devoted-to-exposing-right-wing-conspiracies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zephrx1111</author><text>So how about the left extremists accounts? Is it double standard?</text></item><item><author>tehwebguy</author><text>For those that haven&amp;#x27;t seen a RWW video, they don&amp;#x27;t add commentary to their video content, they simply memorialize extremist right wing messages from politicians and talking heads.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s the point being made here: they are being banned &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; for copyright reasons (e.g. their act of re-uploading clips) but for the content in those clips. That is, YouTube is banning them for posting (exclusively right wing) extremist content, which they are posting specifically to expose. People who don&amp;#x27;t watch the handful of national right wing news outlets or the hundreds of local stations likely won&amp;#x27;t otherwise know what half of the country is being fed daily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tehwebguy</author><text>I mean no, you&amp;#x27;re not going to get banned for posting support for universal healthcare, ending the drug war, ending for-profit prisons, etc even though these are &lt;i&gt;extreme&lt;/i&gt; left positions in current US politics.&lt;p&gt;If you post misinformation telling people that it&amp;#x27;s illegal to charge for healthcare and that you can just throw out any medical bills you receive without recourse, or that drug laws are unconstitutional so you can&amp;#x27;t actually go to jail for them, or that private prisons don&amp;#x27;t count so you are allowed to break out of them, well yeah you might get banned!</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube permanently bans Right Wing Watch</title><url>https://www.thedailybeast.com/youtube-permanently-bans-right-wing-watch-a-media-watchdog-devoted-to-exposing-right-wing-conspiracies</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zephrx1111</author><text>So how about the left extremists accounts? Is it double standard?</text></item><item><author>tehwebguy</author><text>For those that haven&amp;#x27;t seen a RWW video, they don&amp;#x27;t add commentary to their video content, they simply memorialize extremist right wing messages from politicians and talking heads.&lt;p&gt;That&amp;#x27;s the point being made here: they are being banned &lt;i&gt;not&lt;/i&gt; for copyright reasons (e.g. their act of re-uploading clips) but for the content in those clips. That is, YouTube is banning them for posting (exclusively right wing) extremist content, which they are posting specifically to expose. People who don&amp;#x27;t watch the handful of national right wing news outlets or the hundreds of local stations likely won&amp;#x27;t otherwise know what half of the country is being fed daily.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>amerine</author><text>What left extremists accounts?</text></comment>