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Gab just released a tool that permits anybody (with a browser plugin) to comment on any web page, so this will probably not only hurt legitimate users, it will
by commandlinefan 8y ago
Gab just released a tool that permits anybody (with a browser plugin) to comment on any web page, so this will probably not only hurt legitimate users, it will not do what it's intended to either. Just like every other moral panic in history.
- krapp 8y agoThis isn't a moral panic, I don't know why people push that line anytime racists or pedophiles are even mildly inconvenienced. Advertisers left Youtube because people left creepy and sexually suggestive comments on some videos, and Youtube responded to preserve ad revenue. No one was clutching their pearls over this.
- bilbo0s 8y agoyep. This is pretty much raw, uncensored, money grubbing, greed. Racists and pedophiles are bad for the bottom line because advertisers refuse to pay to have their ads next to such content. So unless we're willing to start paying to use YT so that YT can get off the ad supported model, then we'd better get used to moves like this one.
- empath75 8y agoI don’t think it’s YouTube’s responsibility to moderate what happens on nazi pedophile sites that they don’t own.
- gowld 8y agoGoogle runs Chrome and its extension store
- busterarm 8y agoThis is basically the same as Genius' old mission to annotate the web. Except it's Gab.
- mc32 8y agoOr ThirdVoice back a couple decades ago.