Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by seppin on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:17PM
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No but feeding one opinion, slightly more radical than the last over and over very much does cause an increase in radical and extremist views.
This isn't about removing hate, this is about making sure it's not promoted at scale.
Re:The YouTube ban is un-American, wrong, and will backfire
by lawnchair_larry on Friday December 11, 2020 @10:27PM
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Did you read the policy? It has nothing to do with hate or extremism at all. What are you referring to?
I think we need to look at that carefully - especially, how much of youtube hate is well-considered, articulated positions and how much is people just "swept into the propaganda." That's a complicated question but think the medium of video tends to be worst form for well-considered opinions and the form most likely to just be a carrier of irrational-emotional/progandistic messages. It's real time stream of imagines/words quality makes it hard to consider the logic of an argument and easier to get swept up in the emotions of a claim as well as easier to think that, say, an image of a scientist gives legitimacy to a claim,etc. I think this quality was demonstrated back in the days of TV as mass medium.