Re:YouTube has deleted the account of David Icke
by ethbro on Monday May 04, 2020 @07:59AM
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> [On YouTube] You can still go subscribe to the channels you like and be completely unaware of the content you don't want to see
Generalized, therein lies the crux of the tension.
It's not about the existence or accessibility of content, but rather its discoverability.
That YouTube's recommendation algorithm is so psychopathically ammoral that they had to rig it (several months back) not to suggest conspiracy video after conspiracy video should have been the alarm bell.
Content + discoverability composes the potential danger to society, and YouTube wholly controls one of those levers.
Generalized, therein lies the crux of the tension.
It's not about the existence or accessibility of content, but rather its discoverability.
That YouTube's recommendation algorithm is so psychopathically ammoral that they had to rig it (several months back) not to suggest conspiracy video after conspiracy video should have been the alarm bell.
Content + discoverability composes the potential danger to society, and YouTube wholly controls one of those levers.