YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking all anti-vaccine content

Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by ethbr0 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @09:47AM (#28693594)

Ha. I think part of this struggle, to borrow your analogy, is that YouTube and Facebook are organizationally blind to the fact that they built a gun.

Or maybe Google is concerned. And Facebook just doesn't care.

But the root cause is "algorithms for increasing engagement will prefer shock content." Solve that, and they wouldn't need to band-aid issues like this.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by swayvil on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @10:54AM (#28694462)

Dude, the "root cause" is that profit is part of the equation. There is no "right algorithm" for controlling the public conversation. All fascism is bad fascism.

Is that overboard?

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by ethbr0 on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:39PM (#28696171)

How'd you get from profit to censorship to fascism? That's a lot of jumps!

There are simpler explanations.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by swayvil on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @01:29PM (#28697025)

Fascism is governmental power (ie dictatorial control over the public conversation.) in the hands of the corporation. Which is exactly what we have here.

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