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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by umvi on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @01:45PM (#20107073)
> and fail to challenge their views

So you are saying YouTube should actively recommend people stuff they disagree with? Like, if you are religious it should recommend atheist and skeptic videos? And if you are vegetarian it should recommend meat smoking videos?

I'm pretty should people would hate that

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by wry_discontent on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:09PM (#20107400)
I think you know what's being discussed.

YouTube should actively try to prevent people from being drawn into racist rabbit holes. If your rabbit hole ends with "and that's why we should exterminate Jews", probably not a good idea to encourage viewers down that path.

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Re:YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views by umvi on Wednesday June 05, 2019 @02:45PM (#20107820)
Well then they should have a transparent blacklist of censored topics that the majority of users collectively agree on. Otherwise it's too easy to start lobbying for the censoring of politically advantageous "extremism" (i.e. groups petitioning YouTube to censor anti-abortion rabbit holes as "misogynistic extremism")
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