Oh goody. I was worried there was not enough toxicity on YouTube currently.
Not enough misinformation either!
Hmmmm, I wonder why YouTube is letting COVID and election deniers back on.
They are swinging with the political wind and falling behind the administration to get favourable legislation and preferential treatment.
If a heap of people die in the process due to misinformation - they don’t care.
Don’t, be evil.
They are swinging with the political wind and falling behind the administration to get favourable legislation and preferential treatment.
Gotta make sure that the corpos keep making money.
they been doing that since mid pandemic, the moment they announce they wernt blocking election denial was a red flag, plus also the massive jump in right wing propaganda after they lifted that sanction was pretty obvious.
I guess it might be about time to finally cancel my YouTube premium over this. I already was a bit on the fence after they bumped up the price, this might be the final straw. There’s already plenty of misinformation on the platform as is, no need to let even more proven spreaders on there.
Do you know about revanced? It also has cool features, like disabling autodubbing: https://github.com/NoName-exe/revanced-extended
I fucking love revanced
alot of influencers turn out to be right wing shills in the end anyways. minus the pet, animal/science related ones.
simple they need the revenue, itss a sure sign after they lifted the election denial violations like 2-3 years ago from youtube
Just what the internet needed, even more lies and fascists propagandists. yay…
So you think youtube deciding what people are allowed to talk about is good?
And you dont think that if we let youtube today forbid talk about one thing, even bad, youtube will tomorow forbid talk about something good?
It seems you dont understand how censoore works.
So you made up your own fanfiction about this comment and decided to get mad at it. You’re blaming the wrong writer here.
Fucking Nazis
A small act of appreciation for not being broken up, after being proven of being a monopoly.
Justice so sweet, it’ll make you diabetic.
Google execs: “you know what can boost YouTube which is already a cesspit?.. an additional foul smell”
Wtf is that #titlegore
Once again discovering innovative ways to make the platform even less appealing. What will they think of next? Selling the brand to Sinclair media?
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and there is already so much covid denial, and propaganda(anti-woke) commentors infesting videos of shows/movies as it is. its going to turn into video platform of Xitter.
plus the large amount of right wing shill, channel owners too.
as in the annoying comments against inclusivity in videos like trek, dr who, sg1.
Then, is it cool to publish direct lies about red state elections? How about recommending rat poison for measles?
Leave Google.
If they appear on my homepage, i’ll make sure to hit “don’t recommend.”
The better option is to simply stop using YouTube.
I swear that feature doesn’t work. I’ve told it to stop recommending TheQuartering to me so many times and he always pops back up.
Yeah, keep contributing to their algorithm, that’ll really show them! “Stop using YouTube” is the only way to do anything about it, and people won’t
I get it. But that’s easier said than done when all my favourite channel are there. All I can do for now is keep them off my homepage by making them unfavourable to the algorithm.
At this point, the ethical thing to do is to reupload videos you like to Peertube. Sure it screws the creators, but that’s what they get for continuing to post on a fascist platform.
I get the sentiment. How should creators monetise on PeerTube, though? There are no ads, onboarding is a hassle, PeerTube itself pays nothing for content. Also, running a PeerTube instance is likely going to get expensive fast.
How should creators monetise on PeerTube?
Patreon and merchant and whatnot, same as they do on YouTube already. It’s not as if the pittance Google pays is the majority of their income.
(Also, my comment was about random users uploading videos without the creators’ consent, so that’s really a different discussion.)
Also, running a PeerTube instance is likely going to get expensive fast.
It’s built on bittorrent, you know. The more popular a video gets, the less you have to serve it yourself.
If everyone stopped using it they’d be forced to act, unfortunately too many people think exactly the same way, “but the stuff I like is there too!”
Yeah. It’s a chicken or the egg situation. I hate it, too.
Boycotts are a bucket of water that you use to put out smouldering problems. Use your hose and buckets on the fire before it gets out of control.
But when the problem is growing and it’s an inferno then you call 911. In other words: government oversight is the answer.
i dont login , so they cant datamine, and also im adblocking them at the same time. youtube cant go full-anti-adblock, so they are allowing degenerates and degenerate form of revenues to return.
The true mild infuriation is journalists who speak in sentence fragments, have never heard of the ampersand
This is not a bad thing actually. “Deplatforming” idiots clearly did not stop their ideas from spreading so might as well allow people to say whatever inane shit they want instead of getting them riled up for “censorship”.
I know it’s not real censorship but technicalities hardly matters. What matters is how people feel.
Yeah, it wasn’t a perfect solution so let’s just give misinformation a microphone and a spot on the 6 o’clock news!
People will believe whatever they want to believe, you cannot suppress whatever you believe is misinformation. There are lots of things for which there is no apodictic certainty that gets passed of as fact and no one questions it or calls it misinformation.
Also it’s not that it wasn’t a perfect solution. It’s that it is not a solution at all. It actively made things worse in fact.
People in the streets say crazier shit every day, are you also gonna stop them from saying it? Fuck that man, the audience is the one that needs to learn to be discerning.
Fuck outta here with this fuckhead logic.
Explain how it made things worse. That’s nonsense.
It gave them the excuse to build their own platforms in which their ideas could spread uncontested and at the same time made them more alluring to the masses because “forbidden” knowledge is so alluring to humans that perhaps the most famous myth in history is about how our species lost the perfect existence because of it.
You cannot make anything forbidden and expect that by doing so it won’t spread because it is forbidden. As long as there is a demand for it it will continue to spread and if the Streisand effect holds it will spread exponentially. This applies to ideas, drugs, guns, and pretty much everything. If the people want it they will get it. Alcohol is the perfect example: we tried to make it illegal and all it did was increase crime, violence and people kept drinking as much if not more than before. Fast forward to today people drink less than ever because they have learned the health effects of it. Give people the tools to tell right from wrong, correct from incorrect instead of trying to bubble wrap their world and then act surprised when they feel betrayed because someone told them there is another point of view (false as it may be). Let them see both point of views and let the very absurdity of the opposite view discredit itself.
If we cannot trust that people can make the correct decisions why then would we insist on democracy?
We need to be the ones willing to teach them.
I don’t know that I believe in that sort of paternalistic attitude what I do know is that Google et al have no business dictating what is or isn’t misinformation. It’s a double edged blade.
Breathing bleach, very bright light in veins, horse worm paste to fight covid.
what I do know is that Google et al have no business dictating what is or isn’t misinformation
Oh fuck right off.
This isn’t a grey area “Oh Mike’s car sounds louder so it’s faster” information. There are objectively factual truths at play and these flat earth worm paste eating fuckwits want to play Don’t Look Up in real life.
It’s not about the factuality of the information though, it’s about the subjectivity of the label. Harmful, hateful, etc are not objective measurable labels and so they can be used to shut down any sort of speech. The paternalistic position that we need to protect people from falsehoods or harmful ideas is frankly condescending. Like I said elsewhere if I cannot believe that people are capable of separating truth from fact, then I must also believe that they are fundamentally incapable of making decisions and therefore I need to take away any ability for them to make any kind of significant decision. I will not follow this line of thought in my life or politics, because then who gets to decide who is capable of making decisions? The experts in their ivory towers? The only experts with apodictic knowledge are physicists and mathematicians, everyone else operates on degrees of certainty, they can be wrong. And furthermore who decides who are the experts? This is a return to aristocracy or monarchy, but instead of divine authority it is credentialist.
If we want to stop people from believing stupid shit the solution is not to attempt to bubble wrap their world as it were, but rather to give them the tools to discern good information from bad information.
Ah, the “freedom of speech” dogwhistle for racism, bigotry and misinformation strikes again.
But once someone on the other side does it to “you”, then all bets are off and people like you lose their mind.
Ok I understand that you, like me are a chimp, but we need to try to overcome tribalism as much as we can. By that I mean stop thinking that anyone belongs to the opposite tribe of yours simply because they don’t subscribe to dogmatic political agendas. I’m not taking any side except the side of logic and reasoning. Prohibiting or restricting speech or ideas has never stopped them from spreading or otherwise gaining traction if the ground for them is fertile. So what’s even the point? We used to have the KKK on tv and through the sheer idiocy of their ideas they still failed as a political organization.
Invest your energies on fomenting curiosity and truth seeking in people not on removing “harmful” speech. Those are arbitrary labels that we can apply to anything, as Trump et all are showing.
Well I feel like these fucknuts shouldn’t have a platform.
This is about the only good reply because it’s honest. Very based.
