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Odd that a certain political party got a large amount of downvotes on all their videos and YouTube removes the publics ability to see them soon after.

dekerta 5y ago
Most pro-vaccine videos are also massively disliked on YouTube, despite the fact that the vast majority of people support vaccines. I'm guessing you're a conservative, and you don't want dislikes to go away because you think it's great that pro-democrat videos get downvoted, but you can't base real public opinion on YouTube dislikes. It's massively astroturfed
- vfclists 5y ago
  > Most pro-vaccine videos are also massively disliked on YouTube, despite the fact that the vast majority of people support vaccines. You mean the vast majority support vaccines because they will lose their jobs if they don't "support" them?
  - nebula8804 5y ago
    Well the country clicked over to greater than 50% of people with at least one dose on May 25, 2021 so it seems like the majority did support vaccination before the mandates.
  - dekerta 5y ago
    You're living in a bubble if you think that people only support vaccines because of Mandates. Even in America, which is one of the more vaccine hesitant countries, the majority of adults got the vaccine long before any mandates were introduced
- systemvoltage 5y ago
  > I'm guessing you're a conservative Please stop. Most conservatives support vaccines. Your idea of conservatives has an insidious skew that's just plain wrong.
  - dekerta 5y ago
    The person I was replying to was talking about dislikes on the YouTube of a 'particular political party'. That's what I was referring to
csee 5y ago
It's smart in a gross way. They can materially reduce the risk of being regulated by pandering to them.
- jeofken 5y ago
  Who whips who? Media or parties?
- native_samples 5y ago
  Very unlikely they care about regulation. Wojcicki is a fully paid up technocrat globalist - she's ideologically aligned with that party.
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LarrySellers 5y ago
Except they considered the change years before Biden was president: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18207189/youtube-dislike-attack-mob-review-bomb-creator-insider https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18207189/youtube-dislike-a... This Trump rally from The Hill, where he tells his followers to get the vaccine that he got, garnered 1.5k likes and 1.3k dislikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQdxDnQkac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQdxDnQkac Here Trump hints at a 2024 run on the Today show, but it has more likes than dislikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7MWvwTOzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7MWvwTOzw Here a Fox affiliate covers a recent Trump rally, but it has 10 times more likes vs dislikes! Didn't anyone tell them about the grand Youtube conspiracy?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4niom7se8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4niom7se8 Does that fit your narrative or no?
- BitwiseFool 5y ago
  I don't think the GP's narrative was that this exclusively happens to the Democrats. Just that it happens way more on the current White House's videos than it did on the last administration's. Plucking examples where Republican videos were downvoted intensely does not refute an argument the OP wasn't making in the first place.
  - LarrySellers 5y ago
    Sure, it's easy to find examples of dislike brigades for the current White House channel: https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_deletes_portion_of_dislikes_from_biden/gk51weq/?context=3 https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_de... I was just wondering if there was any evidence that the government was involved in UI change. There isn't.
- pdq 5y ago
  I believe he's referring to the other party, with videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcRVR63dnDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcRVR63dnDA And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tYl5C9PufY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tYl5C9PufY
mcintyre1994 5y ago
I can’t say I’ve checked but I’d have assumed every partisan political video gets a tonne of downvotes. I assume you’re referring to some sort of recent organised thing though?
- bequanna 5y ago
  Not organized at all, completely grassroots. Check the like/dislike ratio for any mainstream media video which features an obvious politically slanted view on some topic. The problem here is that people are using the like/dislike ratio to indicate what may be biased content masquerading as 'objective news'. It just so happens that this (accurate) method is flagging the left leaning propaganda that YT wants to propagate.
Quarrelsome 5y ago
or perhaps its merely co-incidental but because some people/activists are always so thirsty about politics _any_ event can be correlated to their political lens.
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dekerta 5y ago

Most pro-vaccine videos are also massively disliked on YouTube, despite the fact that the vast majority of people support vaccines. I'm guessing you're a conservative, and you don't want dislikes to go away because you think it's great that pro-democrat videos get downvoted, but you can't base real public opinion on YouTube dislikes. It's massively astroturfed

vfclists 5y ago
> Most pro-vaccine videos are also massively disliked on YouTube, despite the fact that the vast majority of people support vaccines. You mean the vast majority support vaccines because they will lose their jobs if they don't "support" them?
- nebula8804 5y ago
  Well the country clicked over to greater than 50% of people with at least one dose on May 25, 2021 so it seems like the majority did support vaccination before the mandates.
- dekerta 5y ago
  You're living in a bubble if you think that people only support vaccines because of Mandates. Even in America, which is one of the more vaccine hesitant countries, the majority of adults got the vaccine long before any mandates were introduced
systemvoltage 5y ago
> I'm guessing you're a conservative Please stop. Most conservatives support vaccines. Your idea of conservatives has an insidious skew that's just plain wrong.
- dekerta 5y ago
  The person I was replying to was talking about dislikes on the YouTube of a 'particular political party'. That's what I was referring to

csee 5y ago

It's smart in a gross way. They can materially reduce the risk of being regulated by pandering to them.

jeofken 5y ago
Who whips who? Media or parties?
native_samples 5y ago
Very unlikely they care about regulation. Wojcicki is a fully paid up technocrat globalist - she's ideologically aligned with that party.

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LarrySellers 5y ago

Except they considered the change years before Biden was president: https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18207189/youtube-dislike-attack-mob-review-bomb-creator-insider https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/1/18207189/youtube-dislike-a... This Trump rally from The Hill, where he tells his followers to get the vaccine that he got, garnered 1.5k likes and 1.3k dislikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQdxDnQkac https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQdxDnQkac Here Trump hints at a 2024 run on the Today show, but it has more likes than dislikes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7MWvwTOzw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU7MWvwTOzw Here a Fox affiliate covers a recent Trump rally, but it has 10 times more likes vs dislikes! Didn't anyone tell them about the grand Youtube conspiracy?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4niom7se8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bi4niom7se8 Does that fit your narrative or no?

BitwiseFool 5y ago
I don't think the GP's narrative was that this exclusively happens to the Democrats. Just that it happens way more on the current White House's videos than it did on the last administration's. Plucking examples where Republican videos were downvoted intensely does not refute an argument the OP wasn't making in the first place.
- LarrySellers 5y ago
  Sure, it's easy to find examples of dislike brigades for the current White House channel: https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_deletes_portion_of_dislikes_from_biden/gk51weq/?context=3 https://libredd.it/r/Conservative/comments/l2d9ma/youtube_de... I was just wondering if there was any evidence that the government was involved in UI change. There isn't.
pdq 5y ago
I believe he's referring to the other party, with videos like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcRVR63dnDA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcRVR63dnDA And this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tYl5C9PufY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tYl5C9PufY

mcintyre1994 5y ago

I can’t say I’ve checked but I’d have assumed every partisan political video gets a tonne of downvotes. I assume you’re referring to some sort of recent organised thing though?

bequanna 5y ago
Not organized at all, completely grassroots. Check the like/dislike ratio for any mainstream media video which features an obvious politically slanted view on some topic. The problem here is that people are using the like/dislike ratio to indicate what may be biased content masquerading as 'objective news'. It just so happens that this (accurate) method is flagging the left leaning propaganda that YT wants to propagate.

Quarrelsome 5y ago

or perhaps its merely co-incidental but because some people/activists are always so thirsty about politics _any_ event can be correlated to their political lens.

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