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A comment on YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politically extreme content. Parent comment

Re:YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politica... by dragonwriter on Saturday September 08, 2018 @10:40AM (#17941000)
Oh, it's far more terrifying that the natural result of being good at feeding people things that you can determine that they will respond well to is that you will progressively feed them more extreme content, because tragedy of the commons is much scarier than mustache twirling villains.
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Re:YouTube's tendency to push everyday users toward politica... by 2bitmachine on Saturday September 08, 2018 @11:34AM (#17941244)
At the point when you recognize this and then choose to proceed apace, you become a “mustache twirling villain.” YouTube crossed that threshold a long, long time ago.
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