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Is the S**t about to hit the you tube fan
tooki:
--- Quote from: soldar on August 01, 2019, 01:21:35 pm ---You tube does not care if a guy posts videos of mice being tortured to death. But if a video of a dead mouse being eaten by a vulture gets a lot of complaints then they will demonitize it. Because that is the way their business model works.
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Except that they do care: “Mousetrap Mondays” had to stop showing mice being killed in mousetraps because they got demonetized.
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: langwadt on July 31, 2019, 11:11:12 pm ---the free speech and censorship argument becomes a bit complicated when there is only a few big players with a
virtual monopoly
google and facebook are not a government, but in "Internet land" they have more power
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They arguably have more power than many countries. Maybe they don't have exclusive power in one country, but definitely a large influence distributed across many countries.
SparkyFX:
Exactly, it is optimized for popularity, in itself has practicalities of a popularity contest, with the minimum amount of effort required to keep the business legit. Would not make it different from any other business in the media world (including TV, Cinema, Arts), but some people have problems with it, from advertisers to content creators.
I think it might be a normal reaction to mentally put it in the same bucket as TV regarding censoring, if you could not show it there, then the reaction might have something to it (although TV is more curated and authored). It might be like 30-50 years apart that people complained about TV content and this now is just the same thing.
When using a platform with such a wide public audience, you can not choose your viewers, at the same time no one is prohibited to start his own platform and restrict access in any way necessary to handle complaints themselves.
windsmurf:
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614055/youtube-union-ig-metall-labor-gdpr-privacy-policy-creators/
SparkyFX:
The campaign just posted their points in form of a video:
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