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Re:YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist O... by Kim_Bruning on Sunday November 29, 2020 @11:08AM (#25245971)
I think that people are increasingly getting stuck in their own filter bubbles. This leads to people drifting apart over time and into extremes. This is because there is no cohesive force getting them to think together anymore.

One proposed solution is to simply filter the more 'extreme' standpoints out of the dialogue. Hence censorship.

But I don't think that filtering and moderation are going to help much if people still stay isolated in their bubbles. All you're doing is superficially fighting symptoms; but the root cause remains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

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Re:YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist O... by shi314 on Sunday November 29, 2020 @03:38PM (#25247875)
People are stuck in bubbles created by companies. If recommendation algorithms were developed to recommend videos that tell contrary perspective or didn't recommend similar videos and fill My Feeds with similar videos, no individual would have being in the bubble in first place in best scenario or at worst in some private forum like he/she used to in early days of internet. Instead people have started allowing companies to create bubbles and censor them too and now they are rationalising the power they gave to corporates.
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