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If the metric is "anything used by X people should be a public utility", we'll need to have a talk about nationalizing Coca Cola.
by etchalon 5y ago
If the metric is "anything used by X people should be a public utility", we'll need to have a talk about nationalizing Coca Cola.
- chungy 5y agoCoca-Cola doesn't have the same sway as YouTube. You can drink it or not, and it ends there. YouTube is trying to manipulate people in order to remove dissent.
- etchalon 5y agoYou can watch videos on YouTube, or not, and it ends there. Nothing about this "removes dissent" since comments still exist. And you know, the entire mechanisms of government and public protest which predated YouTube. What it removes is the ability for people to gamify a metric. The metric still exists. It's still used for ranking and personalization. But a brigade of leftists swarming a button on a video that mentioned nuclear energy isn't useful.
- beckman466 5y agoyes you're right, who cares about our digital infrastructure, it's not like it is an industry where some of most valuable companies in the world are in, right? /s
- etchalon 5y agoThe problem isn't our digital infrastructure, it's people who think our digital infrastructure is a handful of websites.