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The west increasingly has completely independent news sources via places like YouTube.
by ralusek 5y ago
The west increasingly has completely independent news sources via places like YouTube.
- ffwszgf 5y agoA lot of these channels will have to leave the platform as anti fake news and disinformation laws get tougher
- cute_boi 5y agoI guess its already happening. Many channels were complaining of shadow bans & demonetization.
- ipaddr 5y agoMaybe that's the silver lining. Anyone who's opinion exists outside of the current groupthink is forced to leave these big platforms. It makes it harder for the average person within this group to express themselves because these platforms make it easy. But many will and new platforms will form outside of big tech. These new platforms will have time and space to rethink how they operate and perhaps they will bring in a new era of consumer control.
- 1cvmask 5y agoThese are all corporate sources that openly brag about censoring content. My favorite is when they censored an academic conference on censorship. Straight out of a Monty Python skit. https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-censored-youtube/274918/ https://www.mintpressnews.com/media-censorship-conference-ce... The HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008217 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26008217