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Re:YouTube Has Been 'Actively Promoting' Videos Spreading Cl... by onion2k on Sunday January 19, 2020 @04:28AM (#22090388)
For YouTube there are three antagonistic forces at work with free speech - there's the freedom users have to publish on the platform without censorship, the freedom users have to see recommended videos that are promoted honestly based on their interests without undue political influence by YouTube or others, and lastly there's the freedom YouTube has to promote things that make them money.

There is no way for all these things to work together. What is positive for one will often be negative for the others.

You can't talk reasonably about freedom and censorship without understanding that freedom means different things to different people in the same group.

Re:YouTube Has Been 'Actively Promoting' Videos Spreading Cl... by bsaul on Sunday January 19, 2020 @04:40AM (#22090440)
« the freedom users have to see recommended videos that are promoted honestly based on their interests without undue political influence by YouTube or other »

Note that this has never happened in the history of media. Every bit of information, in every media, is « controlled » by at least a publisher, who has a personal background, ethic, political point of view, economical interests, etc.

Only with the age of internet , where search engines are powerful enough to index every content published by people, can we truely have some hope to get a « neutral » algorithm in the sense that it isn’t biased by someone’s personal opinion.

I feel this is something that should be preserved at all cost.