Are you seriously telling me that you think videos on YouTube and other mainstream platforms aren’t being censored?
No, they never said anything like that. Read the comment you’re responding to again.
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DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml 3 months agoAre you seriously telling me that you think videos on YouTube and other mainstream platforms aren’t being censored? People need to stop calling it a “right” platform. People of all political ideologies are on the platform, you are just picking out the stuff you don’t like; the platform isn’t even political or meant for that purpose; it’s meant for all forms of content creation.
Why do you think they have the categories in their sidebar, "Pop Culture; Artists; Education; Lifestyle; Spooky; Gaming; Tech; Comedy; Music; Sports; Universe; Finance 2.0; Spirituality; News & Politics; Wild West – in that order… Notice Politics is second last?
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 3 months ago
z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Can you recommend me more than a few hardcore leftist content creators exclusively releasing content on Odyssee?
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I didn’t call it anything, I’m asking. I never said YouTube was a free speech platform.
Please read what I wrote again.
DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Sorry… I apologise for the misunderstanding and mini-rant.
You appeared to me to be asking a rhetorical question in a sarcastic manner and implying that they aren’t really committed to free speech, and the reason I was frustrated was because I’m quite sick of this platform being labelled as right/far-right when it isn’t. YouTube was just an example one mainstream platform that censors content.
If you’d like to see an example of how committed they are to free speech, I can’t really easily provide a direct source, but I do recommend taking a look at some of LBRY’s earliest posts on Odysee
SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 months ago
I’ll be mindful of my wording in the future. I want to reiterate that this was a genuine question.
I do think if a lot of people are telling you the site is right wing then maybe you should take a broader look around. You don’t have to be participating in that garbage for it to be occurring.
DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Well I know there’s a lot of right-wing content on there, but I also know there’s a lot of other content there, too. So I don’t think it’s okay when people call it a “right-wing” platform, just because it appears to have more of it on there compared to other platforms.