here's what my youtube front page looks like. perfectly normal, you can tell i'm into music, john oliver and poetry slampic.twitter.com/YKT89ga2MV
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Imagine a 16yo teenager, not interested in politics, big fan of GTA V, would have started looking for "top 5 guns in gta" and ended up watching "jordan petersons OWNS crazy feminazi sjw!11!1" imagine how that kid will vote once he's allowed to imagine how he'll treat women
and maybe that teenager won't stop at "feminism is bullshit". maybe he'll proceed to alex "the gays want to gay us all" jones. maybe he'll start believing sandy hooks was an inside job. maybe one day he'll buy a gun, kick in the door of a mosque, yell "white power" and shoot.
You provide a platform. You have the responsibility to govern how it's used. In demonetising LGBT+ content, you prove that you are willing to interfere with oh-so-holy freedom of speech. in posting hate ads before LGBT+ videos, you show your true colours.
your algorithm promotes hate and silences tolerance. stop pretending you're shocked. if this is unintentional, change your algorithms. if this is intentional, shut up with your condolences.
the #Christchurch shooters are fully responsible for their own actions. no matter how they were radicalized or #WhereWereTheyRadicalized. they decided to believe the propaganda they were served and to act accordingly
but chances are, you were the ones who served it @TeamYouTube.
This thread ended up being way longer than I intended, so I'll cut this short. I recommend you read up on the topic. Here, for instance: how Youtube promotes extremism https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/world/europe/youtube-far-right-extremism.html … Or here: LGBT+ video demonetisationhttps://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17424472/youtube-lgbt-demonetization-ads-algorithm …
or no fin! the interesting part here is that the first video mentioning any alt right figures was a somewhat leftist video of someone trying to dismantle bannon's views. yet i was subsequently served increasingly right-wing videos.https://twitter.com/amberagemusic/status/1106651114999562242 …
so although the first few videos were left-to-centrist videos, "debating" "controversial" people like peterson or bannon, everything after got more and more right-wing. that about sums up centrism. agree to debate them and they already won.
that about sums it up for now, i'm hungry as fuck and am gonna go make dinner. don't blow up my inbox. or maybe do and spread this around.
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