Yes, I agree with you that it's within their rights to do so.
The public square has effectively become platforms like YouTube. If I cannot participate in these discussions, my ideology, and perhaps my welfare, will suffer. Giving public speeches in my town is increasingly meaningless, because this is not where discussions take place in the digital age.
But Google is a private company and there are no laws (rightfully) to force them to display your opinions if they don't want to do so. Free speech laws just apply to the government not silencing you, not private companies.
> The public square has effectively become platforms like YouTube.
Then people have willfully given up their rights. Google and the companies they bought and developers they pay made their software services. People own this stuff it is property and the property owners get the say as long as they follow the laws.
One could even argue they have to remove this stuff because much of it is "calls to violence" which are illegal and not protected by the first amendment.
This might sound snide and dismissive, but that is not what I am going for, so I am sorry. You are free to make any service you like and host it. It has literally never been easier. Look at 4chan. The first versions cost nearly nothing to setup and maintain and that is about as free as speech gets. You can have whatever rules you like on your property. You apparently haven't gone through the effort of making a giant video or communication service so you have to play by the rules of the people who own the ones that exist. If you think you shouldn't have to make one to (to enforce your rules) then petition to make one, but that is really asking for trouble in my opinion.
With your word game you are siding with bunch of religious extremist who are literally raping and pillaging, is that what you meant? They literally killing and raping people.
How is hindering their recruiting not good? Many of the videos are already illegal even in the USA with first amendment protections. Inciting violence is not legal, and most of these videos do that on some level. And Google/Alphabet don't what that rubbish on their private property, why would they?
I see how it could be a slippery slope, but that is not what anyone here is arguing. Instead people here are literally arguing that Google should host recruitment videos for a group that literally beheads people and uses that to market to people who are probably in need of mental health services instead of recruitment to zealotry.
>> With your word game you are siding with bunch of religious extremist who are literally raping and pillaging, is that what you meant? They literally killing and raping people.
Wait, are you talking about the Christian extremists who caused the unrest in Syria and Libya? What about the Christian extremists who started the war in Iraq? Or maybe you're talking about the Hindu extremists in India who committed genocide?
>> I see how it could be a slippery slope, but that is not what anyone here is arguing.
You're right, most of what you seem to be arguing accepts that we've already completely slid down that slope and are now just figuring out where to aim the bullets
