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    1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 8
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      The elite media continues its quest to pressure tech companies into more stringently regulating speech, in the name of combating “extremism” and “hate” -- whatever that meanshttps://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html …

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    2. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 8
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      Obviously young people falling into YouTube sinkholes and developing wacky beliefs is a real phenomenon. But the solution is to create better YouTube content, and advance better arguments. Not purge channels/videos you dislike under the guise of “safety”

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      Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 8
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      It’s also disturbing, as a general matter, how many young people apparently form a political identity entirely by watching YouTube videos. They don’t read. They just watch stuff. That’s never going to be conducive to deep thinking, learning, and/or reasoning

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        1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 9
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          I think elite media is trying to create a moral panic around the existence of "vulnerable young men" -- who have always existed, always will exist, and always will be the demographic most susceptible to "radicalization." Only difference now is they're consuming lots of YouTube

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        2. junglehusky‏ @junglehusky Jun 8
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          Do you have anything at all to say about the recommendation algorithm or nah? They're literally building deep learning networks to engineer human behavior to sell ads which seems like bigger problematic than racists getting deplatformed. But hey that's just my opinion.

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        3. Catherine‏ @HiFalutinWays Jun 8
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          It’s scary!! How did they know I like Counting Crows Round Here? They’re literally picking every single thing I like. 😬

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        1. Michael Grunder‏ @grumi78 Jun 8
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        1. Michael Kueny‏ @kueny_michael Jun 8
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          Laura Southern, Gavin McInnes, Stefan Molyneaux, & Paul Joseph Watson all encourage reading.

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        1. Joe Copley‏ @jcopley Jun 8
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          They watch YouTube because no other medium is meeting their needs, except for podcasts, which also seem to be quite popular. Political books aside (which have never been a mainstream pastime anyway), it is a great time for long-form political dialogue.

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        1. Fart Face‏ @ifartedblood Jun 8
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          Yeah Top Mind Tracey over here is a really superb deep reasoner

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        1. JT‏ @jaytrenary Jun 8
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          It’s almost like the existing mainstream media is trash and has nothing to offer young people to help them access & understand facts. 🤔🧐

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        1. Zekeboy‏ @Zekeboy4 Jun 8
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          Just as reading the NY Times will never give one a rounded view of history, events, politics, society, etc.

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        1. Anang Mittal अनंग मित्तल‏ @anangbhai Jun 8
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          I have to ackshually this: I see the point about deep thinking but humans are much more adapted to oral learning than to reading. We have to learn to read.

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        1. Jesse Snowboard‏ @JesseSnowboard Jun 9
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          Funny how the trends of "young" people are *always* troubling to "old" people unable to evolve with the times.

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        1. Politicoboy‏ @politicoboyTX Jun 8
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          Or perhaps it’s the whole business model of those internet giant that’s to blame

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        2. Kim il Baba‏ @ariellabooks Jun 8
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          YouTube is a threat to mainstream media, this is how they fight back for clicks

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        1. Jeffrey A Nolan‏ @JeffreyANolan1 Jun 8
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          If you watch all the right stuff, like the lectures by the Horsemen, you can gain a lot, but you can't watch Howard Zinn. He hasn't got a channel. Neither does Orwell, but the movies aren't bad. It's what they stumble onto first: Youtube garbage. You have to LOOK for good stuff.

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        1. Jackleg‏ @grabsomewoodbub Jun 8
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          Which is the problem, in a nutshell.

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        1. TrelanJ‏ @JTrelan Jun 8
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          Reading opinions instead of listening to opinions? What difference does make?

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        1. Lewis Skolnik‏ @LewisSkolnik Jun 8
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          It's not just young people.

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        1. Dave Ranallo‏ @Ranallo Jun 9
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          Ever try audiobooks? Aural learning can be 2X as effective as visual once one develops that skill over time as imagination is heavily triggered in both.

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        1. Mystic Maverick‏ @mysticmaverick Jun 9
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          I agree, reading books is critically important to learning and thinking but at least these youths are not watching TV.

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