People who document violent extremism are being shut down in Youtube’s crackdown

Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by maxdamantus on Friday June 07, 2019 @05:48AM (#20123029)

So our advertising overlords continue to be the ones that determine what information we're exposed to and what products we're meant to desire.

In honour of our great advertisement-driven society, we shall click that suggested "Up next" video on Youtube, and continue to scroll through that infinite Facebook wall which is so miraculously calculated to maintain our attention.

There's nothing wrong with this, right?

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Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by raxxorrax on Friday June 07, 2019 @06:17AM (#20123142)

If I leave it running long enough I always end up with mind-draining pop music. It is a pure nightmare.

But seriously, people promoting rule changes so that advertisers can exclude anything sinful are certainly also against anything that makes Youtube interesting.

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Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by krapp on Friday June 07, 2019 @06:50AM (#20123282)

>But seriously, people promoting rule changes so that advertisers can exclude anything sinful are certainly also against anything that makes Youtube interesting.

"sin" isn't the only interesting thing about Youtube. I watch plenty of content which is both non-violent and interesting.

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Re:People who document violent extremism are being shut down... by raxxorrax on Friday June 07, 2019 @07:55AM (#20123602)

I choose that word to highlight similarities to deprecated moral authorities. Not even because of the morals at hand, but because of the insufficiently legitimized authority.

For example for Europe: sex => ok; violence => not ok

compared to the US: sex => not ok; violence => ok

What we will end up with: sex => not ok; violence => not ok

What might be best for educated civil society: sex => ok; violence => ok

Pretty reductionist, but that is where I see Youtube heading towards to.

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