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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by sz4kerto on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @11:34AM (#28695089)
I'm not sure that 'banning' and 'changing the algorithm so that it doesn't pop up' is meaningfully different. We can just assume that YT hasn't banned this content, but it never ever shows up in recommendations. The effect would be practically the same.

It's a hard problem to solve.

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Re:YouTube is banning anti-vaccine activists and blocking al... by syshum on Wednesday September 29, 2021 @12:07PM (#28695651)
Banning means the content is not accessible at all.

Changing the Algorithm would mean the content is less discoverable but could still spread outside the platform via alternative methods, such as Tweets, Links, emails, slack, etc.

There is a difference, and the effect is not the same

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