Posted on 05/29/2016 8:48:08 AM PDT by OddLane
If a picture is worth a thousand words, the value of a moving image is incalculable. That’s why the impact of a website like Youtube should never be underestimated. Although often marginalized as an endless repository for cat videos and dwindling supply of unlicensed songs and films, the truth is that Youtube, especially since its takeover by the Internet hydra known as Google, exercises a profound influence upon how we view the world.
It’s why the people behind that website devote enormous resources to sponsor presidential debates, interview the President, and generally influence the tenor of political debate within this country. Which makes its record of discrimination against unfashionable points of view all the more troubling to those of us among the non-leftist untermenschen.
Although the nature of its reporting system lends itself to abuse, especially by adherents to the Religion of Grievance, it can no longer be denied that Youtube has gone out of its way to make itself inhospitable to heterodoxy. The temporary ban of a channel documenting ISIS atrocities can be explained away as an overzealous reaction to graphic images, but it’s harder to intellectually justify the removal of a video which satirizes jihadists. Or, for that matter, videos which use fragments of news footage in order to illustrate the gravity of the refugee crisis engulfing Europe...
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You Tube has been a God Send to Conservatives this election cycle. Their broadcast of Right Side Network of the primary functions, following TRUMP when other networks were want to televise the event. Not to mention the opportunity of viewing INFO WARS. This media has been seen more than any orthodox television network these past months. As there is no ‘Facebook’ done here, unable to comment on them. Never cared for the medium, never cared for their rules and regulations.
exercises a profound influence upon how we view the world.
There’s no excuse for a mind hobbled by tunnel vision in today’s world.
Youtube was once a pretty good place to go find and watch various types of video clips. Since Google took it over it has become nearly impossible to watch, since every video has a minimum of 15 seconds of ads, followed by “loading” a few seconds of the video, a pop-under, then more loading, then the video runs, and two more pop-unders show up.
It’s no longer a source of amusement, it has become yet another site to avoid.
Kinda like Breitbart. So much adware etc the site is unreadable.
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