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It sounds a lot like the people you're talking to are Republican partisans who view most events through that lens.
by emodendroket 5y ago
It sounds a lot like the people you're talking to are Republican partisans who view most events through that lens.
- ddingus 5y agoNot at all. I have a solid mix, and have cultivated that over a considerable time too. Started a decade ago. Indies, Dems, GOP, you name it. I enjoy politics and culture. No judgement, just frank talk. More people than you know find that to be high value and it is not easy. Those questions are not partisan. They do speak to class though.
- ddingus 5y agoI have many of those same questions. Dem for decades. Just saying...
- emodendroket 5y agoYouTube was an outlier in keeping the thumbs-down for as long as it did, as pretty much every other platform has long since gone to a more "positive" direction.
- ddingus 5y agoThose moves do not make sense either.
- emodendroket 5y agoThey happened before Donald Trump was even President.
- ddingus 5y agoAnd? They still do not make sense, and I do not care who was POTUS.
- emodendroket 5y agoYou were just insinuating it was a plot to hide dislikes on videos of Biden and Fauci.
- ddingus 5y agoAdd big media to that list. CNN and friends are not happy about the fact that indies can clean their clocks. Personally, I do not feel POTUS needs dislikes hidden, no matter who the POTUS is. Biden, at this time, has a pretty low approval rating and has not made good on many promises people value highly. And I only mention that to highlight the large number of dislikes make sense! Same goes for CNN and friends, who regularly get major things wrong, and who are being held up as authoritative. Generally speaking, these disconnects are not partisan at all. People in general are going to oppose this kind of information management, and it's implied they are too stupid to do it for themselves and need the help. Viewed through this lens the broad and sustained opposition to this move is no surprise at all.
- emodendroket 5y agoWhat “broad and sustained” opposition? You’re off in fantasy land. And again, the fact that these changes long predate the political issues you’re talking about suggests your theory is wrong.
- ddingus 5y agoNumber of proponents is far less than opponents. Changes to favor big media are unpopular. Changes to hide dislike data, which further underscores the favoring of big media, are unpopular. There are other things, and I see no need to detail them. This is all about both suppressing dissent and the support for it. Unless you have a super compelling alternative...
- emodendroket 5y agoI think the simple answer is just that platforms have been concerned a long time that their user bases are too mean.
- raxxorrax 5y agoNot from the US, but how would that change anything? Because just like that you sound more judgmental than this abstract group and that you have a problem with downvotes.