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> YouTube is a version of our society where you can pay or use tricks to get your message pushed very strongly to a lot of unsuspecting people. Yes it's called
by throw_m239339 7y ago
> YouTube is a version of our society where you can pay or use tricks to get your message pushed very strongly to a lot of unsuspecting people.
Yes it's called marketing/propaganda. It wasn't invented by YouTube.
Now that whole "YouTube Regrets" stunt by Mozilla here is obviously about the following question: "who should YouTube allow to have an audience", nothing more.
- tinus_hn 7y agoMarketing can’t for instance force you to read an ad before you read an article in the newspaper. They can’t force you to sit through a video before you drive into town. They can’t swap out one newspaper article for another for money and they can’t completely change the focus of a newspaper by using SEO.