YouTube Briefly Nukes Video Of Nazi Symbol Destruction For Violating Hate Speech Rules

YouTube Briefly Nukes Video Of Nazi Symbol Destruction For Violating Hate Speech Rules

6 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170819/12575038039/youtube-briefly-nukes-video-nazi-symbol-destruction-violating-hate-speech-rules.shtml

Things have gone slightly crazy in the wake of the Charlottesville protests. What started as speech and ended in violence has prompted a number of reactions, many of them terrible. The president took three swings at addressing the situation: one bad, one a bit better, and one that erased the "better" statement completely when Trump decided to go off-script and engage in a bunch of whataboutism.

Other reactions haven't been much better. After defending the white nationalists' right to protest the removal of Confederacy-related statues, the ACLU decided it would no longer protect the First Amendment rights of those exercising their Second Amendment rights. It didn't state it quite as bluntly, but basically said if it detected some "intent" to harm counter-protesters, the ACLU wasn't interested in defending gun-owning citizens' right to assemble.