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>It's not going to be easy to draw the line, but in the case of pushing politics, it has clearly gone too far. In which way? I've seen a lot of arguments that

>It's not going to be easy to draw the line, but in the case of pushing politics, it has clearly gone too far. In which way? I've seen a lot of arguments that YouTube pushes people into alt-right and ethnonationalist content way too easily. I don't think there's an objective way to choose what videos to promote. Obviously they're going to try to come up with some right way to put the weights, and then if they subjectively think that results in the wrong thing, they're going to tweak the weights. Even if there is a weighting that objectively results in more views, it's a value judgment to choose to use that weighting. It could be that prioritizing outrage-bait content gets more views, but I wouldn't call prioritizing that neutral or beneficial.

stcredzero 7y ago
There's way more than algorithm tweaking going on there. There are employees who are manually treating the same thing differently, depending on who and also subject to their own biases. The examples of this on YouTube are legion. Also, there are people who gained viral notoriety, but were going against YouTube/Google politics, then had their whole Google account disappear, then get restored, or remain disappeared. There's some thumbs on the scale over there.
imbored 7y ago
> I've seen a lot of arguments that YouTube pushes people into alt-right and ethnonationalist content way too easily. They do and then those people complain endlessly about censorship, demand legal changes, support first amendment violations via executive order, spread conspiracy theories about anti-conservative bias, and meanwhile they keep posting fucking youtube videos and trying to radicalize people. It's stochastic terrorism and it's all over the goddamn place.