Hmmmm, I wonder why YouTube is letting COVID and election deniers back on.
YouTube will let users booted for 'repeated violations' of COVID, elections policies 'rejoin'
Submitted 3 weeks ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
coyootje@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I guess it might be about time to finally cancel my YouTube premium over this. I already was a bit on the fence after they bumped up the price, this might be the final straw. There’s already plenty of misinformation on the platform as is, no need to let even more proven spreaders on there.
Binette@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
Do you know about revanced? It also has cool features, like disabling autodubbing: github.com/NoName-exe/revanced-extended
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
alot of influencers turn out to be right wing shills in the end anyways. minus the pet, animal/science related ones.
pulsewidth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They are swinging with the political wind and falling behind the administration to get favourable legislation and preferential treatment.
If a heap of people die in the process due to misinformation - they don’t care.
Don’t, be evil.ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 3 weeks ago
They are swinging with the political wind and falling behind the administration to get favourable legislation and preferential treatment.
Gotta make sure that the corpos keep making money.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
they been doing that since mid pandemic, the moment they announce they wernt blocking election denial was a red flag, plus also the massive jump in right wing propaganda after they lifted that sanction was pretty obvious.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
simple they need the revenue, itss a sure sign after they lifted the election denial violations like 2-3 years ago from youtube
BroBot9000@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fucking Nazis
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Just what the internet needed, even more lies and fascists propagandists. yay….
PrincessCory@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
So you think youtube deciding what people are allowed to talk about is good?
And you dont think that if we let youtube today forbid talk about one thing, even bad, youtube will tomorow forbid talk about something good?
It seems you dont understand how censoore works.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
So you made up your own fanfiction about this comment and decided to get mad at it. You’re blaming the wrong writer here.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 weeks ago
YouTube’s leadership is complicit. Fuck them and their blood soaked hands.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
A small act of appreciation for not being broken up, after being proven of being a monopoly.
Justice so sweet, it’ll make you diabetic.
Hayduke@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Once again discovering innovative ways to make the platform even less appealing. What will they think of next? Selling the brand to Sinclair media?
I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Wtf is that #titlegore
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 3 weeks ago
Then, is it cool to publish direct lies about red state elections? How about recommending rat poison for measles?
Jhex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Google execs: “you know what can boost YouTube which is already a cesspit?.. an additional foul smell”
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
and there is already so much covid denial, and propaganda(anti-woke) commentors infesting videos of shows/movies as it is.
tonytins@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
If they appear on my homepage, i’ll make sure to hit “don’t recommend.”
themeatbridge@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The better option is to simply stop using YouTube.
pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I swear that feature doesn’t work. I’ve told it to stop recommending TheQuartering to me so many times and he always pops back up.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
i dont login , so they cant datamine, and also im adblocking them at the same time.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is not a bad thing actually. “Deplatforming” idiots clearly did not stop their ideas from spreading so might as well allow people to say whatever inane shit they want instead of getting them riled up for “censorship”.
I know it’s not real censorship but technicalities hardly matters. What matters is how people feel.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it wasn't a perfect solution so let's just give misinformation a microphone and a spot on the 6 o'clock news!
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
People will believe whatever they want to believe, you cannot suppress whatever you believe is misinformation. People in the streets say crazier shit every day, are you also gonna stop them from saying it? Fuck that man, the audience is the one that needs to learn to be discerning.
Fuck outta here with this fuckhead logic.
0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Ah, the “freedom of speech” dogwhistle for racism, bigotry and misinformation strikes again.
But once someone on the other side does it to “you”, then all bets are off and people like you lose their mind.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Ok I understand that you, like me are a chimp, but we need to try to overcome tribalism as much as we can. By that I mean stop thinking that anyone belongs to the opposite tribe of yours. I’m not taking any side except the side of logic and reasoning. Prohibiting or restricting speech or ideas has never stopped them from spreading or otherwise gaining traction if the ground for them is fertile. So what’s even the point? We used to have the KKK on tv and through the sheer idiocy of their ideas they still failed as a political organization.
Invest your energies on fomenting curiosity and truth seeking in people not on removing “harmful” speech. Those are arbitrary labels that we can apply to anything, as Trump et all are showing.
athatet@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Well I feel like these fucknuts shouldn’t have a platform.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
This is about the only good reply because it’s honest. Very based.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
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skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
Leave Google.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
The true mild infuriation is journalists who speak in sentence fragments, have never heard of the ampersand
nocturne@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Oh goody. I was worried there was not enough toxicity on YouTube currently.
snooggums@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
Not enough misinformation either!