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My problem with youtube isn't their recommendation algorithm, it's that they ban and censor so much of the content I want to watch. Youtube and the major social

My problem with youtube isn't their recommendation algorithm, it's that they ban and censor so much of the content I want to watch. Youtube and the major social media outlets have turned into broadcast TV over the last five years. I use it for "how to" videos, and that's about it. I find a higher concentration of interesting/intellectual content on other platforms.

HWR_14 5y ago
Other than their overzealous enforcement of copyright (and, via ContentID, more expansive than copyright rights), I'm not really aware of anything valuable being banned or censored. But maybe I'm ignorant.
- willmadden 5y ago
  1) Countless medical doctors and researchers discussing COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics like Ivermectin have been banned and censored. This includes world famous, Nobel Prize winning researchers. Here are some dead links: 1) Discussing Ivermectin (proven by dozens of double blind randomized trials to be 85% effective at treating COVID: https://youtu.be/f0FmjsWwFXs https://youtu.be/f0FmjsWwFXs 2) Interview with Dr. Malone, the guy who invented mRNA vaccines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY 3) A US Senator gets canceled: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/youtube-suspends-gop-sen-ron-johnson-s-account-says-he-n1270569 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/youtube-suspe... 4) Half of this guy's videos are canceled: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA 5) I'll stop here. Here's a good video on the censorship of COVID on youtube and others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyQVUhtMDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyQVUhtMDQ That's just COVID. They suspend anything that isn't mainstream politics. It's Orwellian, and normies have no idea.
  - blackbrokkoli 5y ago
    Pardon me if that sounds rude, but it is unfathomable to me why anyone would attempt to watch scientific/or medical discussion on YouTube (or any social media, for that matter). My alarm bells start ringing if I read a paper and the authors are overly committed to pointing out the prestige of the institutions or seem to optimize for citations. What possible use could you get out of the discussion of "science" on a platform where flashiness of the thumbnail, shortness of message and flamebait are directly related to your income?
    - willmadden 5y ago
      These videos weren't appeals to authority or optimized for citations. They were scientific discussions of therapeutics for COVID as well as the mRNA therapies and what's wrong with the current approaches. Youtube targeting content based on income and being "flashy" doesn't make their egregious censorship of inconvenient information on their platform OK.

HWR_14 5y ago

Other than their overzealous enforcement of copyright (and, via ContentID, more expansive than copyright rights), I'm not really aware of anything valuable being banned or censored. But maybe I'm ignorant.

willmadden 5y ago
1) Countless medical doctors and researchers discussing COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics like Ivermectin have been banned and censored. This includes world famous, Nobel Prize winning researchers. Here are some dead links: 1) Discussing Ivermectin (proven by dozens of double blind randomized trials to be 85% effective at treating COVID: https://youtu.be/f0FmjsWwFXs https://youtu.be/f0FmjsWwFXs 2) Interview with Dr. Malone, the guy who invented mRNA vaccines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_NNTVJzqtY 3) A US Senator gets canceled: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/youtube-suspends-gop-sen-ron-johnson-s-account-says-he-n1270569 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/youtube-suspe... 4) Half of this guy's videos are canceled: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAWCKUrmvK5F_ynBY_CMlIA 5) I'll stop here. Here's a good video on the censorship of COVID on youtube and others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyQVUhtMDQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COyQVUhtMDQ That's just COVID. They suspend anything that isn't mainstream politics. It's Orwellian, and normies have no idea.
- blackbrokkoli 5y ago
  Pardon me if that sounds rude, but it is unfathomable to me why anyone would attempt to watch scientific/or medical discussion on YouTube (or any social media, for that matter). My alarm bells start ringing if I read a paper and the authors are overly committed to pointing out the prestige of the institutions or seem to optimize for citations. What possible use could you get out of the discussion of "science" on a platform where flashiness of the thumbnail, shortness of message and flamebait are directly related to your income?
  - willmadden 5y ago
    These videos weren't appeals to authority or optimized for citations. They were scientific discussions of therapeutics for COVID as well as the mRNA therapies and what's wrong with the current approaches. Youtube targeting content based on income and being "flashy" doesn't make their egregious censorship of inconvenient information on their platform OK.