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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by dang »

flavius29663 wrote: post #55

This is anecdotal, but in my experience democrat Americans actually believe everything that the party tells them. They quote the exact same lines, I hear the exact same phrase from different people, and when I ask further questions there is silence. e.g. "rich people stash their money" with absolutely nothing to back that up. Surprisingly, republicans can be more open to conflicting ideas and for debate, even though…

Please don't take HN threads into partisan flamewar. Not what this site is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28444380.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by elliekelly »

zenron wrote: post #195
devwastaken wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Watch one "conservative news" video and it will do a complete 180. Ads for "rations", "preparing for the end of the world", "how to be self sustainable", tons of PragerU propaganda, and some of the most low quality l BS you'll ever see from political ads. YouTube delivers content based on what you've watched.

Calling PragerU propaganda is like calling an Western history book written by a religious person contraband. What exact points do you take umbrage with or is this just a signal to your political preference?

Propaganda, according to Wikipedia:

> Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence an audience and further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.[1]

PragerU's "About Us" Page:

> Prager University is the world's leading conservative nonprofit that is focused on changing minds through the creative use of digital media. Taking full advantage of today's technology and social media, we educate millions of Americans and young people about the values that make America great.[2]

I'd also encourage you to check out their "What is PragerU"[3] brochure (PDF) which goes into more detail.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

[2]https://www.prageru.com/about

[3]https://assets.ctfassets.net/qnesrjodfi80/UfBbMy7KkcxxjzVTlR...

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by acomar »

titzer wrote: post #124
gambler wrote: post #87

Any large communication platform has a choice: either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other. YouTube made its choice. Now, random videos and channels get demonetized, content gets deleted for no reason and people covering basic news speak in code to avoid the wrath of the idiot AI. In the background Google publishes bats…

It's Kafka-esque, really. Google has always thought it is smarter than everyone else and that has led, inexorably, to it establishing itself as the final arbiter of truth. Except Google is a dysfunctional, distracted, neurotic, schizophrenic entity, like all organizations, with an ever-changing set of in-fighting fiefdoms and warring executives. Worse, growthism forced its "Organize the world's information" mission i…

> growthism

any day now, the moral, upstanding, self-restrained capitalists will buck the profit motive and save us from the unsavory sorts who rule our world today.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by pm90 »

slightwinder wrote: post #134
corobo wrote: post #48

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> This makes it highly resistant to censorship We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"

This is not so far from the truth. In the past, censorship usually only happens to people doing something illegal, meaning copyright infringement, radical political content or other disturbing content (usually porn or violence-related). So most of those people have seek for alternative platforms where they are free. But more and more the line is shifting, and we see censorship happening with far tamer content. Youtub…

> In the past, censorship usually only happens to people doing something illegal

What past are you talking about? Censorship has been everywhere for most of human history.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by Igelau »

corobo wrote: post #48
fragileone wrote: post #43

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It's a peer-to-peer video client, with part of it's data being directly shared (similarly to torrents) and part via a blockchain. This makes it highly resistant to censorship and thus is where many people are moving their channels to.

> This makes it highly resistant to censorship We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"

You seem to have missed the thread topic and are make-believing that "censorship" is a dog whistle. Not a fun game.

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Post by mcguire »

ZWoz wrote: post #282
mcguire wrote: post #269

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Conversely, yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theater is a great way to drum up an evening's entertainment.

Yelling "Fire!" in theatre is miscontructed-misunderstood idea and probably legal: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/11/its-tim...

Excellent nit!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/inte...

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by tablespoon »

hojjat12000 wrote: post #268
int_19h wrote: post #203

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"Unpopular ideas can be silenced, and inconvenient facts kept dark, without the need for any official ban. Anyone who has lived long in a foreign country will know of instances of sensational items of news—things which on their own merits would get the big headlines—being kept right out of the British press, not because the Government intervened but because of a general tacit agreement that ‘it wouldn’t do’ to mentio…

At the bottom of that page it says: "Proposed preface to Animal Farm, first published in the Times Literary Supplement on 15 September 1972 with an introduction by Sir Bernard Crick. Ian Angus found the original manuscript in 1972." So, I don't think this was written during WWII.

> So, I don't think this was written during WWII.

If it wasn't, it was probably written very soon after the end. It uses "this war" to refer to WWII and it doesn't appear to discuss anything post-war.

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Post by Jensson »

RegnisGnaw wrote: post #135
caeril wrote: post #118

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> either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other No, there is a middle ground that Google, with its army of engineers, could implement in a weekend: 1. You stop trying to assume you know what advertisers want their ads to be displayed on. 2. You implement a basic, fixed (but can be expanded) ACL-type system based on catego…

Your plan fails, lets say they implement what you do. Let say that company X advertises but only on the safe subjets. Then my immediate attack will be: "Company X advertises on a website showing jailbait sexual content" or "Company X advertising on a site promoting Q Conspiracy". You are going to fight an uphill battle explaining to people the naunces of the system, which is a losing battle.

Your comment doesn't make sense, Youtube still show those videos in the current system it just doesn't run ads on them. So if it was an issue then it would have already happened, the fact that it doesn't mean that it isn't an issue.
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