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Anything that promotes short-form video should be looked at. Youtube promoting shorts is bad. A youtube long-form video about, say, car repair, or quantum phy
by NickC25 9mo ago
Anything that promotes short-form video should be looked at.
Youtube promoting shorts is bad.
A youtube long-form video about, say, car repair, or quantum physics, or a history of eastern asian languages doesn't contribute to brain rot.
The Chinese, take it for what it's worth, knew how to control TikTok. They simply banned non educational content on the platform. You want to watch a 5 minute video explaining the basics of a math theorem, or explaining a chess opening? Sure, that's cool. Stupid 30 second clips of dances, memes, reactions, etc? Nah, that's dumb.
- sejje 9mo agoThat's better imo, but creates a new problem. As we can see anywhere and everywhere, moderation teams have to use their power, even when nothing is in violation of the rules. They'll start policing more content, and pretty soon they'll be arresting people.
- NickC25 9mo agoYoutube content moderators can arrest people?
- sejje 9mo agoWe were talking about the state policing content in China. So the "YouTube content moderators" you mention would be government actors. Like they have in the UK--police arresting people for content. The police don't work for Facebook, I'm sure you realize.
- NickC25 9mo agoNo, in China, the people running the platforms know what is acceptable and what's not. So, once the government tells them what's cool and what's not, the companies then police themselves. Because unlike the US, where there are effectively no real consequences for companies that skirt the law, in China, the companies wouldn't dare try to skirt the law - executives in China know they can't bribe their way out of deliberately pissing off The Party when it comes to education.