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You have klan members in Congress, supreme court, churches and every police department, but sure, YT and Reddit are the problem.
There can be two problems.
The two problems can have disproportionate sizes. Drumming up hysteria about reddit and yt is basically a distraction when you have people in public life endorsing the fringe ideas floating on these platforms.
It’s been the Republican playbook for decades. Get the populace riled up about Satan or Gays or AIDS or now trans people and you can rob them blind while saying it was them.
There can also be two solutions.
Did you want to personally rubber stamp each of them?
Yes.
At the very least, they shouldn't be promoting this content. There's a difference between hosting content and actively suggesting it to users.
Reddit, youtube, and tiktok are quickly becoming the new, "video games cause violence" cry from reactionaries. Hell you see people here claiming tiktok is going to make all the kids have 2 second attention spans. It's all just scapegoats for other systematic failures in culture, education, and social saftey nets, but those are hard to fix. Easier to just blame the platform and not make any real changes.