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Bulk demonitization and banning of inconvenient views inside the United States has been ongoing for about four or five years now. I say "inconvenient views" be

by all2 7y ago

Bulk demonitization and banning of inconvenient views inside the United States has been ongoing for about four or five years now. I say "inconvenient views" because Google shut down Tulsi Gabbard's adwords account in the 24 to 48 hours following the first democratic debate about a year ago [0]. I think conservatives are the most vocal about this[1], but it is hard to track to total impact of something coming from an institutional level (with methods like shadow banning). To the OP: I'd say be specific in your claims. Sweeping claims of shadowbanning aren't useful to anyone (perhaps a look here [2] will help you with composing useful copy). If I were you, I would also reach out to the creators directly and offer your platform as an alternative. [0] https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/25/tulsi-gabbard-sues-google-account-suspension-1435405 https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/25/tulsi-gabbard-sues... [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube+shadowban+conservative+channels&t=ftas&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=youtube+shadowban+conservative+cha... [2] http://paulgraham.com/useful.html http://paulgraham.com/useful.html

Bcin 7y ago
In general, my main method of reaching out is to contact creators directly. I'm constantly trying to interact with content creators and victims of demonetization and complete deletion. It's hard to do in bulk, but PG has always said to do things that don't scale. Also I'm not trying to fall into the realm of only targeting "conservatives" vs "democrats." I don't think that would be necessarily helpful to our goal of reclaiming what made video-sharing so powerful prior to being heavily regulated and advertiser focused. Though conservatives have been very vocal about the said problems, conservatives aren't the only ones that are being affected. The CAVI team and I are trying to solve this problem in a more general sense, but at the same time, we will keep in mind those who were affected the hardest.

by all2 7y ago

Bcin 7y ago

In general, my main method of reaching out is to contact creators directly. I'm constantly trying to interact with content creators and victims of demonetization and complete deletion. It's hard to do in bulk, but PG has always said to do things that don't scale. Also I'm not trying to fall into the realm of only targeting "conservatives" vs "democrats." I don't think that would be necessarily helpful to our goal of reclaiming what made video-sharing so powerful prior to being heavily regulated and advertiser focused. Though conservatives have been very vocal about the said problems, conservatives aren't the only ones that are being affected. The CAVI team and I are trying to solve this problem in a more general sense, but at the same time, we will keep in mind those who were affected the hardest.