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Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#951
He YouTube since you start "cleaning" up your platform can you do the same for:

-Flatearth

-Moon-landing denier

-Gate's chip vaccines

-Everything false advertisement like NordVPN

-Hillary etc is a reptile

-Nearly every Trump video when he lies

-All the fake UFO sightings

and so on...it will save you petabytes :)

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#952
post #951

He YouTube since you start "cleaning" up your platform can you do the same for: -Flatearth -Moon-landing denier -Gate's chip vaccines -Everything false advertisement like NordVPN -Hillary etc is a reptile -Nearly every Trump video when he lies -All the fake UFO sightings and so on...it will save you petabytes :)

Imagine how much space they could save if they just deleted all videos.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#954

I just don't get this. Why does Google have to be the censorship police here? Just let people post what they want (minus graphic and illegal content) and make their own mistakes and their own learnings. Google is going down a rabbit hole full of worms. Posting conspiracy theories about election fraud is just people exercising their free speech. Google is a private platform, so they can censor whatever they want, but…

> it's not like Google is going to get in > trouble for allowing people to post about > conspiracy theories Actually it is exactly like that, they see lost revenue coming if they get tagged as the go-to place for misinformation on this topic. They may already be seeing advertisers complaining that no matter how much they try to screen they are still getting complaints of their ads showing up in prerolls for conspirac…

It's not a bad point, but are you sure this actually hurts Google? I believe Google and Facebook business models are advertising-based, so they strive to maximize the root mean square engagement metrics. People aren't just going to leave YouTube and Facebook et al because there's a bunch of fake news and controversy because:

  1. People love that shit.
  2. There's no alternative since these companies are ~monopolies that already own all of the network mass.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#955
post #951

He YouTube since you start "cleaning" up your platform can you do the same for: -Flatearth -Moon-landing denier -Gate's chip vaccines -Everything false advertisement like NordVPN -Hillary etc is a reptile -Nearly every Trump video when he lies -All the fake UFO sightings and so on...it will save you petabytes :)

Imagine how much space they could save if they just deleted all videos.

No sure if that's in youtube's interests, but would be a interesting question.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#956

If there is to be toleration in the world, one of the things taught in schools must be the habit of weighing evidence, and the practice of not giving full assent to propositions which there is no reason to believe true. For example, the art of reading the newspapers should be taught. The schoolmaster should select some incident which happened a good many years ago, and roused political passions in its day. He should…

Just like computer programs are not perfect the first time it's released, printed text is not either. Most people have good intensions, but we are stupid.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#957

Here's a better title: "Private company where a large chunk of public discussion happens get to push a certain political agenda and decide what's true and what's not".

"Not hosting baseless nutjob conspiracy allegations" is easy to differentiate from your regular "political opinion". Your equivalence is false.

>These stable packages just postpone the inevitable technological debt and when you have to pay the debt, it's too late.

Easy or not [1], it's not the business of a video to do the differentation in behalf of the citizenry.

Not to mention that it being "easy" is a naive assumption, by people who feel that it's only the "other bad side" that's affected, which even if it was true, is something that can turn around on a dime based on the political climate, changing corpoate interests, etc)

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#958

It's kind of amazing to me that a bunch of people who work in tech, and are ostensibly very smart, seem to think that elections in the United States are somehow uniquely immune to fraud. We believe this despite the fact that on any given day there's an article (several, sometimes) about some event driven by fraud in basically any other human endeavor that goes on in this country or the world that gets upvoted to the…

It's particularly amazing given those same people come out in droves to complain about voting machines being insecure on any article about electronic voting, yet the Dominion electronic voting system was used in all the disputed states.

Re: YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

#959

If there is to be toleration in the world, one of the things taught in schools must be the habit of weighing evidence, and the practice of not giving full assent to propositions which there is no reason to believe true. For example, the art of reading the newspapers should be taught. The schoolmaster should select some incident which happened a good many years ago, and roused political passions in its day. He should…

The reason why this never become a reality? Religion. The religious party/side will never agree to teaching critical thinking in the school.
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