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Post by ashtonkem »

rjbwork wrote: post #127
devwastaken wrote: post #72

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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.

I watch a lot of lefty "news" and infotainment. I still get ads for the conservative propaganda, survival rations, prepping, etc. I think it's because I also watch a lot of firearms hobby content. Kinda silly, but it does make me chuckle that people like Ben Shapiro, PragerU, and 4Patriots are subsidizing my lefty youtube subscriptions.

What’s particularly fascinating is how there is an almost complete absence of a leftist equivalent on YT. There are some leftist channels here and there, but you’re not going to get bombarded with communist ads after watching one video like you might on the right.

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Post by jvdheuvel »

christophilus wrote: post #63

Wow. It's hard for me to imagine how he crossed any line worthy of deletion. He's one of the best Linux voices on YouTube, and seems like an incredibly nice guy. His content can be seen on Odysee[0]. Chris Titus Tech has a video covering this[1]. Honestly, I try to watch everything on Odysee these days, anyway, just to try to continue de-Googling my life. [0] https://odysee.com/@TheLinuxExperiment:e [1] https://www.y…

Chris Titus Tech has also an Odysee channel, https://odysee.com/@christitustech:5

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Post by jvdheuvel »

iotku wrote: post #171
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.

It's worth noting that while based on LBRY (The supposedly censorship resistant blockchain protocol) Odysee is a bit more opinionated front end with restrictions on things such as pornography. By the standards of "alternative" video sites there's a pretty diverse set of content including mirrors from some well known YouTube creators (KhanAcademy, EEVBlog, GreatScott, Veritasium, HarwareUnboxed, Not Just Bikes, EposVo…

If you use the LBRY app from this repository you can get more results, https://github.com/paveloom-f/lbry-desktop/releases

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Post by tg180 »

mcguire wrote: post #266
throwaway316943 wrote: post #219

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In that case lets apply your principal evenly to all rights. Freedom of movement: heading somewhere we don’t agree with, ok but you aren’t allowed to use public roads since we own those. Good luck getting to the voting station. Freedom of assembly: we don’t support your protests cause, stay off public property, go hold your protest at your own house. Freedom of conscience: fine think whatever you want but if you atte…

So you've nationalized Youtube, eh?

YouTube, as well as other major Internet companies, have a near-monopoly over their sectors which leaves them lacking any competitive drive to be better, do better, or for people to go elsewhere.

Without realistic alternatives it is spontaneous (even if erroneous) to think about the implication of private infrastructure over public rights. But the real matter is an issue of scale.

I am convinced that sooner or later governments will wake up and that the tech giants will be broken up or severely limited: the European GDPR and the Chinese crackdown on the sector are only the first signs.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/06/five-new-bills-a...

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Post by ufo »

OldTimeCoffee wrote: post #175
vorpalhex wrote: post #157

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Correct, and while it's use as an anti-viral has been noted pre-covid we don't understand what it's method of action is, or why it sometimes behaves as an anti-viral. I'm not recommending using drugs we don't understand or have a full picture of. I am recommending to stop calling it horse dewormer. At the very least call it an anti-parasitic in use in the 3rd and 2nd worlds.

You can drop the '3rd and 2nd worlds' part. It's used for the treatment of parasites in the 1st world as well. I'm not a infectious diseases expert, but to my knowledge the viruses that it's been found to be effective against are all mosquito borne; it's just as likely related to it's toxic action on mosquitos in general. Still, it's all baseless conjecture on everyone's part. If someone cares to throw money at it, i…

I believe there have been studies showing that ivermectin is not useful against covid in these situations either.

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Post by rg111 »

meowface wrote: post #288
laurent92 wrote: post #252

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Veritasium is not political? He is, very. It’s just that you don’t see it. It’s not an accusation, just a reminder that the background noise is non-neutral, and he doesn’t contrast very much on your background ;)

Veritasium is very political? Can you link a video where politics comes in at all, let alone something that's very political? https://www.youtube.com/c/veritasium/videos Maybe the driverless car one can be seen as somewhat political (by advocating for use of self-driving cars), but it's not necessarily a polarizing issue split along US political party lines, at the moment. Or do you mean the host of the channel is ve…

I found only this video to be slightly political:

Is Success Luck or Hard Work? (https://youtu.be/3LopI4YeC4I)

I don't know about any other video that has any politics in them.

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Post by zozbot234 »

didibus wrote: post #319
causi wrote: post #169

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Everyone always seems happy to carve out their own exceptions to freedom of expression. Freedom, except for racism. Freedom, except for transgenderism. Freedom, except for porn. Freedom, except for violence. Freedom, except for political dissent or mis-gendering or the promotion or criticism of a religion. As someone who falls near the middle on most issues I probably detest a larger percentage of speakers than anyon…

Okay, but how do you reconcile that with the fact that hate speech and propaganda has been a part of almost all atrocities ever done in the past? Or put some other way, how do you reconcile that your freedom can be affected by someone's else's freedom? Like what if I use my freedom to turn others against you and have them hate you and berate you and bully you and ridicule you and refute you, and potentially have them…

I have no issue with people turning against, hating, berating, bullying, etc. me. These are simply matters of feeling and opinion. I do have a problem when other people feel entitled to escalate such conflicts by reacting to these unwelcome points of view with real, actual violence, including government censorship. Even, and perhaps especially, when these people are purporting to act in my defense.

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Post by Choco31415 »

tablespoon wrote: post #314
remram wrote: post #221

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Algorithms do whatever humans program them to do, which can be delete, warn, email, slack, or call phones.

> Algorithms do whatever humans program them to do, which can be delete, warn, email, slack, or call phones. I think it's worth noting that algorithms like these are deployed specifically to take employees out of the loop, and adding a communications step would almost certainly pull them back in.

However, there is still less manual work being down if videos are flagged via an algorithm versus checked one-by-one by a person. Though, results may vary.

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Post by anigbrowl »

int_19h wrote: post #301
Forbo wrote: post #290

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I think the complaint isn't that the content exists there, but rather that it makes up the vast majority of what is found there. If the majority of Netflix content is trash that I wouldn't want to watch, why would I continue using Netflix? I think the big issue here is that there hasn't been a need for opposing content to be published on the platform, and until there is it will remain slanted one way. This in and of…

You might continue to watch Netflix because the shows you do like are exclusively available there, and just ignore the rest of the library. It's not that there hasn't been a need for other stuff to be published - it's that there hasn't been a proportional need. Which is exactly what I meant: any alternatives to established platforms are going to have the preponderance of content banished from those established platfo…

You can nearly always find some other route to a given piece of content, or just lose interest in consuming it. Very little content is sooooo compelling that it overcomes all other considerations. Otherwise people who had problems with YT would just set up on a big porn site, which tend to have good infrastructure and long-term viability (at least for as long as people want to keep watching porn, which is probably forever).

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Post by selfhoster11 »

trasz wrote: post #156
axelroze wrote: post #59

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> Is nationalisation evil in itself? Oh very much it is. Come to the lovely Eastern Europe and see for yourself how good national owned companies are. Full of useless bureaucrats put there to ensure voters so the ruling party can continue ruling. Also in huge debts which are paid by more taxes so the working people pay for the lazy. Unless the human race somehow chains itself to selflessness, nationalization + democr…

On the other hand, outside the Eastern Europe many of the state-owned corporations work pretty well, and usually the service goes down the drain after selling them off - see UK railways.

UK railways are a classic example of privatisation going wrong. They even quietly re-nationalised then recently.
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