> If you want the Wild West, you’re forcing YouTube (and presumably other websites) against the will of their owners to run pornography <
You’re assuming a bit too much there. Or perhaps I wasn’t clear enough. By “Wild West” I meant minimum censorship, and great freedom. Not no censorship at all. Even the Wild West had sheriffs!
As it is, YouTube can kick you off their site for saying even the most innocent non-PC things. I recently read that a chess analysis guy got a YouTube time out. He still can’t figure out why. Maybe the YouTube computer censors flagged him for saying “white moves first”.
A Wild West version of YouTube would scale back those computer censors. No one would argue for no censorship at all. Gotta have a sheriff. Just not a hyper-sensitive one.
Are you trying to use the law to enforce this position or just hope YouTube comes around to your point of view?
As it is, YouTube can kick you off their site for saying even the most innocent non-PC things. I recently read that a chess analysis guy got a YouTube time out.
Yeah, that's kinda how private property works.