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Tech companies and studios are determining what's presented to the masses and it's not entirely if even primarily concerned with what makes money. For example,
by bsdetector 5y ago
Tech companies and studios are determining what's presented to the masses and it's not entirely if even primarily concerned with what makes money.
For example, PewDiePie trended ~40x more in Canada and even non-English countries than he did in the US - a difference that was not always the case, and resulted from a choice made by YouTube for whatever reason. PewDiePie makes YouTube a lot of money.
Although I'm not entirely convinced Google's reason is pushing their ideology. They may simply be planning for a time when 230 is reformed and they are held responsible for content or cannot censor based on ideology, in either case resulting in them purging most user-generated content and leaving only mainstream, company-backed content.