Not gonna throw my hat into the ring with my own opinion... but isn’t this totally off-topic? We’re talking about YouTube being used as a platform for spreading misinformation/conspiracies/etc. and you’re talking about sexualisation of children on Netflix and are clearly jumping at the opportunity to share your political opinions, and also personally attack and accuse another commenter. Have your political opinions, I won’t address them, but jesus christ don’t be such an ass about it by attacking people in unrelated discussions.

Edit: I’ll also add that the original commenter was deliberately vague (didn’t mention “Trump” or specific political groups, for example) to avoid controversy and you come in attempting to bulldoze that by mentioning BLM.

> How do you feel about the oversexualization of children in such Netflix programs such as Cuties. Are you willing to defend the most innocent and vulnerable of society? I highly doubt it.

I've seen that go by on Twitter and am not impressed .. should I call for it to be cancelled?

(Mind you, a stock feminist answer might be that the Netflix series is just a representation of a whole rotten child beauty pageant culture which in turn derives from the sexist adult beauty pageant culture, and that nobody should be sexualised without their consent - which cannot appropriately be given by people who are underage.)

> and that nobody should be sexualised without their consent - which cannot appropriately be given by people who are underage

Except that we expect parents to be stewards for our children and give consent on their behalf, except in cases where we've decided that parents cannot be trusted to do so and we outlaw that activity for children (sex, alcohol, etc), or that consent does not fully convey the situation (a parent forcing an unwilling child to get a haircut is not viewed the same as a child forcing an unwilling child to play a full contact sport which is also not viewed the same as a parent forcing a child to get into a fistfight on the street).

Where do parents sexualizing their children for television fall into this? I dunno. If they were doing it for an individual that came over and paid in person, we'd have some real probing questions, but it's okay when it's on TV for a national audience?

I'm sorry but this comment is both wildly off-topic and needlessly inflammatory, suggesting the OP is fine with the over-sexualisation of children? Come on. We're two steps away from reciting QAnon posts here.

But in an attempt to bring things vaguely back on topic: I'm actually curious to know if left-wing movements have been aided by YouTube and to what extent. Its effect on the right is very well documented but on the left I've tended to see the outrage on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook more.

Being a lefty I would say no not really (GMO and anti-vaxxers are on both sides), that being said ... I believe the left has really turned the heat up on cancel culture, and that has had a massive impact on discourse.

Not in an informational way the way the right does.

You do see a small effect through raw footage videos. Shaming people videos.

The left owns the mass media (fox not withstanding) so the right needs a video outlet. Radio takes care of audio.

> The left owns the mass media

Not to get too far down a rabbit hole here but the OP was referring to the "far left", which certainly doesn't own the mass media. If anything, centrists own the mass media.

Generally when American Trump/Republican supporters (I won't say right wingers, because I'm sure there's a large portion of conservatives who are not represented by the current corrupt administration) refer to the "far left" they mean the center and regular left. Their personal overton window is just so skewed that they think anything left of Trump is extremist.