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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by RussianCow on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:37AM (#25371297)
You have a good point, but I think you're downplaying the power of clickbait. I consider myself a relatively smart, educated, and rational person, and I can't tell you the number of outlandish headlines I've clicked on just to see what they say.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by roenxi on Thursday December 10, 2020 @04:25AM (#25371636)
The thing with censorship is they aren't going to censor the clickbait. Google knows exactly what clickbait looks like and they could have purged it years ago with a few algorithm tweaks that nobody would have minded. They're going to censor stuff that makes people ask hard-to-answer questions and/or challenge consensus positions.

That sounds like a good idea until it clicks that good scientists ask hard to answer questions and challenge consensus positions. Censorship is fundamentally anti-evidence. People can't present evidence that the channel owners don't like, and people can't model how to handle untrue opinions in conversation because they never come up.

Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by timeeater on Thursday December 10, 2020 @05:36AM (#25372179)
Even if you click on the clickbait, it doesn't imply that you automatically believe everything it delivers.
Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by jjk166 on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:26PM (#25376012)
Indeed you probably clicked on it because it seemed unbelievable