If youtube censors you, how does that violate the 1st amendment? Youtube is not the government.
I can see what you're saying, but it seems very manipulative to me for the largest search engine on the world, in a culture where we say "Google it" to mean look it up on the Internet, to be manipulating the masses this way. It leads to situations like Elon Musk buying Twitter. It turns into a political war. I just want to learn and if folks are curious about flat earth or some kookie science, they should be able to read about it. I think search engines should be considered utilities like telephones and Facebook messenger. No censorship.
Should we tell the government to allow telephone companies to censor our phone calls?
Name one time when the government ordered a platform to censor against that company's will.
Answer my question first
Very bad example. Phone calls are private and protected by law. Social media posts are not.
And they should be protected in my opinion
What should be protected - phone calls or social media posts?
Both phone calls and online content like search engines and platforms
So you're going to tell the owner and admins/moderators of this board what they can and cannot do?
If we believe them to be real monopolies, dangerous to the marketplace there are a series of laws under which the federal govt can sue to brake them up. There is this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act. There is this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Antitrust_Act_of_1914. There is this one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Trade_Commission_Act_of_1914 If those will not cover the specifics here, then Congress can pass something that will.
Sounds commie.
I await the coming chaos with bated breath.
And then you still didn't answer the question.
Search engines and video platforms should be neutral. No censorship. Folks use them as ways to share news, science and political opinions. It's like censoring the press.
Well they, and we, don't much care what you think about it.
Wow how nice of you.
That's why you've got the 1st Amendment and the government doesn't get to tell companies what they can publish.
Google doesn't publish anything. They provide a venue for already published items to be found.
YouTube and Google both also post original material.
But freedom of speech applies to government. It doesn't apply to companies like Google and youtube.