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Youtube Targetting Cryptocurrency Channels?
magic:
--- Quote from: nctnico on December 26, 2019, 10:24:46 am ---
--- Quote from: magic on December 26, 2019, 10:12:38 am ---Power corrupts and you want the institutions of science and journalism to have power; it seems your wish had been granted, in full.
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Which institutes of science and journalism have power nowadays? Journalism has been declining for decades and science never had much to say to begin with.
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Journalism and TV did have a lot of influence. They were the ones to tell everyone who is the good guys and who is the bad guys, after the Church went out of vogue. I mean, just look at one of the largest American newspaper's website with their big banner saying "democracy dies in darkness". Do they look to you like people who report impartially about events or like influencers? What do you think they think about themselves and their job? And it's hardly an isolated incident; IME many journalists have similar attitude.
There is no denying that journalists tend to be biased towards certain political options and so are many or possibly even most in the academia. In fact, the ability to influence masses was what brought some of them to journalism and education in the first place. At the same time, many people don't like many things about modern society and all those "elites" simply have no answer to such people so the idiots among them do what idiots do best and come up with idiotic theories. No amount of "journalists" and "scientists" will convince them to change their mind because neither side cares to give up certain positions.
I say that this is a consequence of wanting science, journalism and educated population to replace government. And it kinda is; the moment you have people whose job is telling the masses what's true and false, that moment you are going to have power freaks trying to get those jobs. You can imagine that these days I am quite cynical about the whole concept.
blacksheeplogic:
--- Quote from: magic on December 26, 2019, 06:53:15 pm --- You can imagine that these days I am quite cynical about the whole concept.
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There's the argument that was put forward some posts above that their has to be some restraint with he example given 'Vaccines' and the harm created by the anti-vac's. However, the problem is who decides, it was for a time the church, then the government, and now it's the likes of Google & Facebook.
There's really no way to oppose this because of the high entry barrier to create the infrastructure and build a viable alternative is almost insurmountable. I don't particularly favor government control either but I feel we are getting to a point where some intervention is needed to break up these giants in a manner similar to what the US did with AT&T. For example should the carriers be the service providers?
Don't really know what the right answer is but there's too much control in too few with little accountability. My 2c.
wilfred:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on December 26, 2019, 01:39:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on December 26, 2019, 01:09:19 pm ---How YouTube goes about striking content is up for debate, in what can seem an arbitary way, but in defense of YouTube, they are right to target Cryptocurrency channels. Why? The crypto space is a minefield of scammers offering no more than get-poor-quick ponzi schemes. Hence YouTube has a duty of care to the millions of subscribers who use the platform as their principle source of information on crypto-currencies.
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Bullshit. There are and have been countless investment channels over the years, crypto is no different.
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Crypto most certainly is different. It is unregulated. It needs to be regulated.
nctnico:
--- Quote from: blacksheeplogic on December 26, 2019, 11:01:34 pm ---
--- Quote from: magic on December 26, 2019, 06:53:15 pm --- You can imagine that these days I am quite cynical about the whole concept.
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There's the argument that was put forward some posts above that their has to be some restraint with he example given 'Vaccines' and the harm created by the anti-vac's. However, the problem is who decides, it was for a time the church, then the government, and now it's the likes of Google & Facebook.
Don't really know what the right answer is but there's too much control in too few with little accountability. My 2c.
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In the end a balanced democracy (where there isn't a concentration of power in one person) should be the answer. But this will only work if the voters are educated well enough not to fall for BS stories. That is a though call but in the end the responsibility is with the people.
Halcyon:
After watching some more videos overnight, including Louis Rossmann's latest, I've decided to make a positive move away from Youtube. As consumers, we largely dictate the market. There is no point in banging on about alternatives if no one uses them... so I'm starting now.
I have downloaded both the LBRY and Vimeo applications on to my phone (which is what I use for most of my viewing) and whilst both aren't quite as polished as YouTube, they offer numerous advantages. Firstly, you don't need to sign up for an account to view any of the content, you can just skip that stage. Secondly, no advertising! I can even follow my favourite channels on LBRY without an account or signing in to anything.
For those content creators that I follow and use these other platforms, I will exclusively only watch them using either LBRY or Vimeo from now on.
If after almost 30 years of using Microsoft Windows, I can completely ditch it in favour of Linux, I'm sure I can do this too.
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