YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
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Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#2To put my tinfoil hat on: I believe that the recent crackdown on the dislike count and the twitter rule change/bot purging has been orchestrated by the Biden administration in an attempt to combat a repeat of foreign interference via social media.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#3Dislikes still visible on incognito tab. Most fiction/speculative authors assumed tyranny would be from governments, not private companies. How wrong they were.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#4To put my tinfoil hat on: I believe that the recent crackdown on the dislike count and the twitter rule change/bot purging has been orchestrated by the Biden administration in an attempt to combat a repeat of foreign interference via social media.
If foreign governments can have a discernible effect on America because of a dislike button - removing it wouldn’t make a difference.
Removing the ability to _comment_ would be something different…
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#5To put my tinfoil hat on: I believe that the recent crackdown on the dislike count and the twitter rule change/bot purging has been orchestrated by the Biden administration in an attempt to combat a repeat of foreign interference via social media.
If foreign governments can have a discernible effect on America because of a dislike button - removing it wouldn’t make a difference. Removing the ability to _comment_ would be something different…
I agree, Biden is regularly downvoted heavily. I would think primarily by Americans.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#6I really hope this backfires spectacularly on YouTube and the zealots who pushed for this change are held professionally accountable. I already click on fewer videos in search results and recommendations because I can no longer gauge how worthwhile they are to try and watch.
The end result? I'm sticking to my current channels. I can't be alone and knowing that YouTube takes recommended content so seriously, I have to imagine this is going to panic plenty of product managers at YouTube.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#7To put my tinfoil hat on: I believe that the recent crackdown on the dislike count and the twitter rule change/bot purging has been orchestrated by the Biden administration in an attempt to combat a repeat of foreign interference via social media.
If foreign governments can have a discernible effect on America because of a dislike button - removing it wouldn’t make a difference. Removing the ability to _comment_ would be something different…
I think it does make a difference. Its a small one, but one that hits home. After all, when you see those videos online of the Biden admin with 1000s of dislikes...don't you feel that there is a segment of people out there that don't go along with the cultural zeitgeist of the internet? That maybe left-wing opinions (although dominant on the internet) may have some push back in the real world? When you lose that ability to voice opposition you get something not exactly dystopian but something marching closer to it.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
If foreign governments can have a discernible effect on America because of a dislike button - removing it wouldn’t make a difference. Removing the ability to _comment_ would be something different…
I agree, Biden is regularly downvoted heavily. I would think primarily by Americans.
I would guess primarily by Right-wing Americans, the very Left-wing americans I know don't love him but wouldn't down vote him regularly.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#9Dislikes still visible on incognito tab. Most fiction/speculative authors assumed tyranny would be from governments, not private companies. How wrong they were.
> Most fiction/speculative authors assumed tyranny would be from governments, not private companies.
I was under the impression cyberpunk got that right, generally.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#10It's stunning how often things like this get wildly upvoted. The video shows nothing at all about "YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count"; the guy shows a comment of his that has nothing to do with the dislike count getting deleted, although he asserts without evidence that this is related to a different comment he made (which was not deleted) regarding the dislike count. A lot of people are successfully exploiting HN to spread false stories about controversial events.