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    Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 10
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    "YouTube radicalization" is a notable phenomenon and worth exploring, but the framing in the NYT and other elite media almost invariably ends up tilted in favor of more stringent speech regulation policies. There's a way to cover this stuff without implicitly demanding censorship

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      1. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 10
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        They want to exoticize YouTube as a uniquely dangerous hotbed of extremism, corrupting the youth with its algorithms and such. But “the youth” has always been the demographic most attracted to shocking, radical, or fringe ideas: all of which just now happen to be found on YouTube

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      2. Tim Pool‏Verified account @Timcast Jun 10
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        technically, but its mostly overblown hype. Most research I've tracked so far shows the inverse to be true https://pyt.azureedge.net/  Even the NYT story talks about how youtube made the dude denounce the alt right and he never bought into far right views

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      3. Michael Tracey‏Verified account @mtracey Jun 10
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        I’ve personally met people who became crazed conspiracy types because they fell down a YouTube rabbit hole. So it does exist. Question is how you frame the issue and what policy prescriptions you implicitly demand. NYT and others want more stringent regulation of speech

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      2. Paul Shetler‏Verified account @paul_shetler Jun 10
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        they're angry because they can't (yet) exert the same kind of top-down control on social media as they do on hollywood, television and print media. and they're determined to shut down any views that aren't theirs.

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      3. Uncle Fester‏ @UncleFestering Jun 10
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        And higher ed and K-12

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      1. Austen Proctor‏ @Austenouttaten Jun 10
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        Or the idea that merely being exposed to different or "unallowable" ideas is enough to create a following for them. As if people can't weigh for themselves the quality of arguments posed in these frowned upon YouTubers videos.

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      1. Scott Barr‏ @thelictor Jun 10
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        The conundrum of what to do with the plethora of post radio shock jocks.

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      1. Nancy Freed‏ @jeansbluejeans Jun 10
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        We are becoming the UK in many ways regarding speech

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      1. Hollipriest‏ @Hollipriest Jun 10
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        I don't think that it's a real phenomenon.

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      1. Joseph Bellofatto‏ @JoeBellofatto Jun 10
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        One of the main features of leftist ideology is indoctrination. Which then leads them to believe that non-leftists didn't become so do to nature, intellectual curiosity or want. No, it came from the other side too using indoctrination. A technique that should be only for the left

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      1. Kano911‏ @Kano9112 Jun 10
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        I struggle with the idea that radicalization is only occurring on the right, when I think the evidence clearly shows more radicalization happening on the left.

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      1. Mr. Tatersalad‏ @MTatersalad Jun 10
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        It's intentional by the NYT & others. It's why they do so. They know if such censorship is targeted towards them or allies they have the ability to make enough of a stink to stop or reverse it. It's competitors and indie media often don't. They know this & it's why they push it.

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      1. Ralph L Santovenia‏ @Joker961 Jun 10
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        As @Timcast has said, YouTube isn't good at radicalizing. @Twitter was made for it tho.

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      1. Codename Dutchess‏ @Jimmy_Stick Jun 10
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        Legacy media is really bad at covering the alt media. That kid didn’t even really become an alt righter either, just an evangelical Christians.

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      1. Skybuster‏ @Skybuster187 Jun 10
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        As far as I’m concerned, the term radical is a badge of honor.

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      1. Dante Verita‏ @dante_verita Jun 10
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        I think the picture needs to be taken into a larger view. “YouTube” in this sense acts a forum. The radicalization itself is not a result of YouTube, it’s a function of multiple factors that would indeed include media like the NYT.

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