LONDON — YouTube suspended the monetization of Russell Brand’s channel on Tuesday, saying he had violated its “creator responsibility policy,” just days after the British actor and comedian was accused of a string of offenses, including rape, sexual assault and abuse.
I have no idea who this guy is and what the allegations are but there can’t be a better illustration of what I keep saying about the collapse of the nation-state. All of the constitutional rights, the due process, the legal system that took forever to invent, put in place and hone are becoming redundant. Google and YouTube are our criminal justice system now.
It took the longest time for humanity to create such concepts as the presumption of innocence or freedom of speech. It took even longer to create societies where these principles are enshrined as foundational. We are now dispensing with these enormously important achievements to go back to a semi-feudal system where a bunch of dim-witted barons are the judges and the executioners of us all based on their whims.
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