Re:Ask HN: Is YouTube ideologically biased?
by krapp on Friday April 13, 2018 @07:27PM
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> I'd question the motive behind stripping videos like that: copyright issues or something deeper
Probably copyright - I honestly think all of this is about "advertiser friendliness," that YouTube is pushing this demonetization scheme ever harder because they're increasingly more desperate to make a profit from the site.
>I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate
How many of those left-leaning channels do you follow? If there were mass demonetization of left-wing content as well, how would you know? Is there objective evidence for a disproportional effect based on political bias?
It took me a second of Googling to find a thread on /r/socialism claiming that Youtube demonetizes left-wing content due to it's right-wing bias[0], so it seems both ends of the political spectrum feel attacked. Maybe it's just a case of extremist politics not being advertiser friendly?
Probably copyright - I honestly think all of this is about "advertiser friendliness," that YouTube is pushing this demonetization scheme ever harder because they're increasingly more desperate to make a profit from the site.
>I just haven't really noticed too many left-leaning content makers take hits at the same rate
How many of those left-leaning channels do you follow? If there were mass demonetization of left-wing content as well, how would you know? Is there objective evidence for a disproportional effect based on political bias?
It took me a second of Googling to find a thread on /r/socialism claiming that Youtube demonetizes left-wing content due to it's right-wing bias[0], so it seems both ends of the political spectrum feel attacked. Maybe it's just a case of extremist politics not being advertiser friendly?
[0]https://www.reddit.com/r/socialism/comments/7somky/where_are...