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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by bun_at_work on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:35PM (#29180363)
How does the dislike button indicate propaganda?

It seems most people are engaging with YouTube in the same bubbles as any other social media platform.

The "propaganda" videos I see (when searching for them) on YouTube don't have large dislike ratios, they are very much liked by the people who consume that content. An example is PragerU videos.

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by coolso on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:42PM (#29180458)
> How does the dislike button indicate propaganda?

Take the Gillette ad as a great example. No dislike button? Now the “lack of downvotes” can be used to indicate the normalization of such propaganda and imply people support the message.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by dang on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:28PM (#29181106)
Please don't take HN threads further into ideological flamewar. It's not what this site is for, and your comments in this thread have moved the thread noticeably in that direction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by defaultname on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:38PM (#29181251)
Fair enough, though I'm a little confused at the gigantic threads that have remained unflagged that basically make the same statement (albeit from the "other side" - that YouTube is defending Democrats, the White House, etc).

It is impossible to discuss this without it becoming ideological, and the asymmetry is exactly why it is a massive problem.

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by dang on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:28PM (#29181804)
I'm not sure which threads you're talking about, but it's probably a combination of (a) they're not breaking the site guidelines as much and/or (b) they haven't gotten moderator attention (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...) - we don't come close to seeing everything and we don't necessarily read the threads in sequence.
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by ok123456 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:32PM (#29181161)
Maybe some content is just bad?
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by trts on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:01PM (#29180723)
here's the comment you're mischaracterizing where I describe my efforts to convince unvaccinated people to get vaccinated:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28698230

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by defaultname on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:24PM (#29181045)
Am I really misrepresenting?

The "you made me do this!" tactic is as old as time. In your case, the claim is that YouTube not hosting ignorant anti-vax content, and Biden making a factual claim about the unvaccinated, made people (at least proxies that substantiate your story) not get vaccinated. Therefore, YouTube and Biden are actually to blame!

Nonsense.

I was going to put the cart back in the corral, but then I saw the sign asking me to put the cart back and that offended me because now it's a demand and not a courtesy! The store is to blame that I left it rolling in the lot.

Whatever terrible, selfish thing people do, there is an argument they make where actually it is everyone else's fault.

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by trts on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:29PM (#29181125)
These are not my words or sentiments. I'll leave it at that.