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YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views

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Post by darkpuma »

biogewuerz wrote: post #430
nailer wrote: post #246

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I’m not sure why this is being down voted, 'white' is very much an American concept. British people are not French people are not Hungarians are not Greeks are not Italians are not Spanish people. We're Europeans, but we have very distinct and different cultures and we don't regard ourselves as 'whites' - it's rare (outside radical left circles) for Europeans to speak that way. The native people of most Mediterranean…

The "white people" concept is increasingly gaining popularity in Europe and especially among the European far-right though. This is due to the massive influx of non-European migrants over the past decades, which makes the racial divisions much more visible.

Huh, the overwhelming majority that I've personally witnessed is Anglo/British shitting on Polish immigrants.

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Post by neetdeth »

pizzazzaro wrote: post #503
josteink wrote: post #499

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Lol nice bait, troll. When have Antifa, 3rd wave feminists, or any of it created mass shooters? The unspoken truth here is that this hate speech is creating and fueling that particular breed of violence.

Did you deliberately drop BLM from the list because of the 2016 Dallas shooting? Who's trolling whom?

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Post by dgjrhgi »

bityard wrote: post #188
AndrewStephens wrote: post #136

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I was shocked when news sites started publishing comments as a matter of course. They worked so hard to research and create a 2000 word article that accurately reflects the world (in accordance to their editorial guidelines) using their good name - and then let fReEtHiNkErChAd and 2020BloodInTheStreets chime in at the end. It would be OK if they strictly moderated the comments, but few sites seem to do that.

> They worked so hard to research and create a 2000 word article that accurately reflects the world (in accordance to their editorial guidelines) using their good name I'm not sure which news sites you read but most of the ones I've seen count only as journalism in a very vague and abstract sense. The information is thin, the writing poor, and major important questions go unanswered and ignored. If there is indeed an…

Is there any service that compiles relevant news(filtering out propaganda etc.). I would prefer an team of people doing the compile by manually going through various news sources and sending out the summary email to subscribers. That would be a huge time saver for me. I wouldn't milk paying money for that kind of service.

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Post by busterarm »

dageshi wrote: post #309
ravenstine wrote: post #107

I'm starting to think that comment sections on news sites are a really bad idea. At first I thought NPR and the like were cowards for removing theirs. It's bad enough that NYT can be pretty biased on its own, but the comment sections are always full of low-tier thinking that just push whatever narrative is currently in the Overton window. What I find distressing is how people remark that a telecom and advertising gia…

Is a privately owned museum a "public square"? Or a sports stadium owned by a private company? Or a Cinema? Or a threatre? No, neither is youtube. It's a place the public visit not a piece of public infrastructure. Repeating "public square" over and over again does not make it so.

There's already a SCOTUS ruling on the books where the government cannot deny convicted sex offenders their access to Facebook because it is the public square. It's literally in the ruling.

The public square argument at this point isn't deniable, it's more about what the company that maintains that public square gets to define as trash.

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Post by HBKXNCUO »

root_axis wrote: post #28
wnevets wrote: post #15

Why do some people think they're entitled to say what they want on youtube?

Youtube is the most popular video website on the internet. This makes it a fundamental human right. I am being sarcastic.

YouTube is the most popular website on the internet for regular (i.e. non-rich) people to participate in the public political debate by posting/watching videos. This means banning regular people from it substantially reduces their ability to meaningfully participate in the public political debate. When people can't peacefully advocate for their interests, they do so violently. We don't want real world violence, so it's probably not a great idea to give YouTube carte blanche to decide who can meaningfully participate in the public political debate.

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Post by [deleted] »

josteink wrote: post #499
fwip wrote: post #442

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I don't know if this is what you meant, but that's what youtube is doing now. They've decided that these neo-Nazi videos are causing violence, so they've stepped in to remove those bad actors for the sake of everyone else.

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Post by drilldrive »

tal8d wrote: post #473
drilldrive wrote: post #387

We talk all the time about the two internets, one of China and one of the rest of the world. But more and more we are seeing a new division arising within America itself of two internets. I can't say how this will play out long-term, but with alternative-media sites rising we may well see two broad forces developing.

> ...but with alternative-media sites rising... That should be happening, but isn't - not to the degree it naturally would. Debanking. Payment processors have been very busy weeding out potential competitors to the big names in SV. I almost want to laugh at the fact that the early cryptocurrency proponents experienced the exact same treatment while building the very thing that would protect those presently being targ…

Yes this is absolutely true. But once the cryptocurrencies gain a true grip, along with alternative payment processors, we will really begin to see a true divergence. In some sense, such particulars are the bedrock of the second internet.

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Post by Kye »

deogeo wrote: post #507
Kye wrote: post #462

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"Their country" seems to imply that it doesn't belong to people who immigrate legally. They're the majority of immigrants despite what people spreading hateful rhetoric try to tell you. https://www.pewhispanic.org/2019/06/03/facts-on-u-s-immigran... It belongs to them just as much as it does to people whose ancestors planted flags a handful of centuries ago.

> "Their country" seems to imply... How else should the country they were born in, and are citizens of, be referred to? Without making it US specific, as my point is not limited to the US.

The comment you replied to specified the US. Framing immigration as an invasion is nonsense no matter what country you're talking about.

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Post by foldr »

a-afterglow wrote: post #502
foldr wrote: post #425

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Porn isn't illegal, but has always been banned on youtube.

But isn't it a platform for all ages? In which case, it would be illegal for YouTube to host porn, wouldn't it?

Age control isn't a legal requirement for websites that host porn in the USA as far as I know. Google, for example, will return porn in image search results (if you disable the safe search filter), and you don't have to verify your age first to do that.
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