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The Department of Homeland Security Is Demanding That Google Turn Over Information About Random Critics (futurism.com)
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[–] 21 points 9 months ago (11 children)

YouTube lose would be a blow. All the knowledge there that would be lost is massive. And nobody is going to replace it.

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  • [–] 30 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    It doesn't seem to be as well known, but YouTube is one of the biggest distributors of blatant disinformation, and they have done fuck all about it. There are so many individual right wing disinformation channels that wield so much more power than they should. It's so fuckin insidious. Seriously, go find one of the alt-right YouTube accounts, and just look at the comments. Not a single one will be negative. They literally police their comments, and the only thing left is sycophantic bullshit like "thank you for exposing the truth!" It's actually disgusting. Every YouTuber can essentially build their very own echo chamber, and they do.

    I know YouTube comments should generally be ignored, but when you see something that is intentionally, blatantly misleading, a single sentence comment could be all that is required to pierce the veil. It's axiomatic at this point that their bullshit doesn't stand up against even surface level scrutiny.

    Google could combat this with little to no effort. Put a flag next the username. Display the number of manually deleted comments. Done. But they won't. Fuck youtube. Fuck Google. They are perfectly happy to lead the charge into fascism.

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    It's not just political disinformation. Watch a few how to videos on something you know a lot about. You'll find the same wrong information repeated over and over.

    All of these 'content creators' are really just 'regurgitationists'.

    If you want to know how to do something wrong, watch a you tube tutorial.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    They are very similar in that, even if there comments point out the obvious flaws in the information, they will never correct the record. Because they never gave a shit in the first place.

    You're not wrong, but I haven't seen these channels actively policing their comments. They're just pushing garbage and playing the algorithm.

    These political hacks are actively malicious because logic and reasoning goes against their brand.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Plus they all stroke each other off, like praise each other really obviously to the point they should be embarrassed. They have no respect for their audiences. Like joe rogan, his guests and him fall over themselves praising each other transparently.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    What fools we've been, thinking we could televise the revolution on a corporate monopolist video platform, where ultimately they have absolute control over. Even bigger fools we've been, pinning our emancipatory power hopes to our labour?

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    While I think I agree with your geneal stance, I also believe 'no knowledge is lost' is pure hyperbole.

    Aside from many different quasi-documentaries, video essayists and slice-of-life bloggers (whose content is surely backed up on other platforms or by data hoarders) the sheer amount of tacit knowledge of small computer/electronics/hardware repairs and similar, especially in smaller channels, is in no way either 'not knowledge' or not 'lost' should the platform go up in flames tomorrow.

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