certain kinds of content, that was quite controversial but is used by all the major platforms. i think there could be forms of counter speech that are visible, you know, somewhere around the actual video. it could be that it s just seen by fewer people. or it could be outright removed if it goes over the line. i want to read a comment from media matters, media watch, of course, as you know about this change and control room, youtube was one the last major social media platforms to keep in place a policy attempting to curb 2020 election misinformation. now it s decided it take the easy way out by giving people like donald trump and his enablers free rein to lie without consequence about the 2020 elections. now to you, john. is that a fair assessment? i think there is a lot of truth in that statement. i do think that there is probably a use within a democratic system for kind of
you. do you think abc s suspension of whoopi goes too far after her on-air apology? yes, i think it does. i just don t see what it s supposed to accomplish. her comments about the holocaust certainly were offensive. it is historically inaccurate to suggest that the murder of 6 million people had nothing to do with race. unfortunately, the way that the nazis thought about race very much characterized jews as an inferior race, and this is a large part of what drove what they called the final solution, what drove the murder of 6 million jews. but whoopi goldberg made a mistake. we solved the problem in the best way we can, with lots of counter speech, with lots of people pointing out the mistake she made. she realized that she d made a mistake. as you say, she apologized live on air. and that to me was a great teaching moment. viewers of the view may have learned something from it, may have come away with a better understanding of this tragic part of human history. and i don t see wha