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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by ianleeclark on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:16PM (#23682212)
> YouTube and its advertisers aren't countries, and aren't engaged in recent, deadly military skirmishes with India.

It might help to read the parent posts I was replying to, but we're talking about the effects of black box algorithms.

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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by ChrisLomont on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:26PM (#23682409)
Your initial reply was to this

>India is absolutely right in banning TikTok as it is a significant national securities threat.

which is exactly why YouTube and China are not equivalent. You're talking about abstract black box algorithms; no one else was.

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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by ianleeclark on Monday June 29, 2020 @04:40PM (#23682662)
> As long as the platforms recommendation and ranking algos are a black box, there is no guarantee that China isn’t conducting misinformation campaigns via the platform.
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by nodont on Monday June 29, 2020 @05:33PM (#23683407)
There is also no guarantee that Youtube is not manipulating its rankings to make the CCP happy. I think many American companies are too afraid to anger the CCP which has resulted in them filtering content the CCP would be offended by.
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Re:India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps by mda on Monday June 29, 2020 @06:04PM (#23683804)
This is absolute nonsense, there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of videos on the subject. Watch a few of them (really not hard to do, just try keywords like Tienanmen or Uighur) and observe the results and your recommendations list later.
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