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If you don't mind my asking, how old are you? And did you grow up in the United States? If you grew up in the US and are (significantly) older than Facebook an
by mcguire 5y ago
If you don't mind my asking, how old are you? And did you grow up in the United States?
If you grew up in the US and are (significantly) older than Facebook and Youtube, you were raised in a society that had significantly greater suppression of free speech than is being discussed here. Nobody handed crazy people a megaphone and a world-wide platform to spread their nuttiness. They had to stand out in front of the post office or mall entrance (where they would be shooed away by security quickly) to enlighten the world about the evils of fluoride.
But that's probably just Bill Gates' chip talking.
- SergeAx 5y agoI am 46 and I was born and living all my life in Soviet Union and now Russia. So you don't tell me what a significant free speech suppression feels like) YouTube is not a megafone. TV and newspapers is. YouTube is just a medium. People still have to find those videos, click links, share them and so on. Unless, of course, YouTube algos are putting them on the front page because they are generating more ads profit. And you could not stop information from flowing around in 1980-s (@see "Samizdat") and hundredfold cannot do it today. If you think then closing Parler solved the problem of internal division in USA - no, it just made it worse.
- notacoward 5y agoIf you've experienced significant free speech suppression, then shouldn't you be better able to tell the difference instead of playing Slippery Slope?
- raxxorrax 5y agoThat is true but I am not as disillusioned that giving everyone a megaphone was positively conductive to spread more interesting art, discussions and general content. I would not want to go back to Youtube TV. I think people that only see the dangers of misinformation that must be contained are the modern versions of priests to be honest.