That’s really sad. They were one of the few platforms that would carry content honestly no matter how offensive it might be. With how overwhelming the scope and influence of big tech platforms like YouTube are, free speech has few homes left.
Free speech has the entire internet, just don't expect giant public corporations to broadcast and amplify conspiracy theories. No one expects youtube to host porn or gore, but when they take down covid deniers and mass shooting conspiracies people think they are entitled to youtube hosting them.
The idea of informed consent, is you get to know the benefits and risks of any medicine.
Skepticism is valuable too. If anything, human history is littered with dead bodies of those that blindly went along and listened to those in authority.
> just don't expect giant public corporations to broadcast and amplify conspiracy theories.
Unfortunately that is exactly what the giant public corporations are doing. They are running disinfo ops against the public, and it's bizarre how they justify this to themselves (in the name of the antiracism, or the greater good, or achieveing some utopia). What is odd is that there doesn't seem to be a lot of variety in the types of disinfo ops it is OK to run. The "peaceful protests" chyrons emblazoned behind a burning hellscapes is OK. The "we have always been at war with East Asia" kind is OK - and you have to go to rough and tumble corners of the internet to see other conspiracy theories that don't fit the narrative of our nihilistic PMC elite.
