YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

Post by johnisgood » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 11:19 AM UTC

caconym_ wrote: post #509

johnisgood wrote: post #500

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That particular example may have been exaggerated or extreme, but I think the point still stands. Someone just commented this "check out flat earth videos... they remove all comments that are critical and now with the dislike counter gone i guess the earth is flat.". Indeed. In this case for example it should not be flagged, but down-voted by the community.

I honestly couldn't tell whether that flat earth comment was being ironic or not, but I think it's an interesting case study either way. Is a visible YouTube downvote count really the only thing standing between a meaningful number of people and belief that the Earth is flat? I don't really buy it.

Post by bellyfullofbac » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 12:25 PM UTC

chongli wrote: post #526

bellyfullofbac wrote: post #502

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If there's enough traction, the creators would start complaining to YouTube, and they'd have to rethink it. Also it would confuse creators: is this video shit, or is it the campaign?

Creators are already complaining to YouTube. So far they aren’t listening.

Post by voakbasda » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 2:49 PM UTC

endominus wrote: post #494

voakbasda wrote: post #481

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Corruption is not legal. It is simply the apparent norm that we have come to expect from our elected officials, bureaucrats, journalists, courts, police, and many other occupational classes. And when in Rome….

Corruption is absolutely legal. For example, the revolving door between regulatory agencies and large businesses, insider trading by Congress members, large government contracts (especially in the military) being awarded not to the best companies bidding but the ones that will employ people in a given politicians district, and so on. All corruption, all legal and normalized. Many are just trained not to see it as cor…

Post by apple4ever » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 5:43 PM UTC

beerandt wrote: post #485

root_axis wrote: post #471

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The evidence presented in this video isn't anywhere near enough to confirm that this is actually true, yet you're already offering up speculative explanations about google's intentions as if it's all a foregone conclusion and you know exactly why. I think that's a little weird.

When it comes to censorship, I think at best it doesn't really matter why , and at worst it's fair to assume mal intent, even if it's not obvious or provable. Otherwise (and without an affirmative reason), why hide it? That's the nature of censorship. But especially so when the "alpha testing" is specifically done on videos of the new White House administration. Unless you're questioning whether removing the downvote…

Post by gremloni » Sun, Dec 05, 2021, 6:36 PM UTC

ralusek wrote: post #558

gremloni wrote: post #556

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Diversity for these purposes is biologically defined. Different race, different sex are pretty much it. A difference in ideology within the same race or sex doesn’t doesn’t count as diverse as I’m using it.

Ok, so, diversity of gender and race is just good, period? Do you mean that people should be represented by race and gender in accordance with their population makeup? i.e. 13% of doctors should be black, and 50% of nurses should be male? At what cost, and what makes you think that would be a good thing? For one, Indian immigrants in the US disproportionately enter medicine, as do other Asians, in total constituting…