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> YouTube and its advertisers aren't countries, and aren't engaged in recent, deadly military skirmishes with India. It might help to read the parent posts I w
by ianleeclark 6y ago
> YouTube and its advertisers aren't countries, and aren't engaged in recent, deadly military skirmishes with India.
It might help to read the parent posts I was replying to, but we're talking about the effects of black box algorithms.
- ChrisLomont 6y agoYour initial reply was to this >India is absolutely right in banning TikTok as it is a significant national securities threat. which is exactly why YouTube and China are not equivalent. You're talking about abstract black box algorithms; no one else was.
- ianleeclark 6y ago> As long as the platforms recommendation and ranking algos are a black box, there is no guarantee that China isn’t conducting misinformation campaigns via the platform.
- nodont 6y agoThere is also no guarantee that Youtube is not manipulating its rankings to make the CCP happy. I think many American companies are too afraid to anger the CCP which has resulted in them filtering content the CCP would be offended by.
- mda 6y agoThis is absolute nonsense, there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of videos on the subject. Watch a few of them (really not hard to do, just try keywords like Tienanmen or Uighur) and observe the results and your recommendations list later.