Posted on 02/11/2019 12:22:36 PM PST by tcrlaf
YouTube has announced that it will no longer recommend videos that "come close to" violating its community guidelines, such as conspiracy or medically inaccurate videos.
On Saturday, a former engineer for Google, YouTube's parent company, hailed the move as a "historic victory."
The original blog post from YouTube, published on Jan. 25, said that videos the site recommends, usually after a user has viewed one video, would no longer lead just to similar videos and instead would "pull in recommendations from a wider set of topics."
For example, if one person watches one video showing the recipe for snickerdoodles, they may be bombarded with suggestions for other cookie recipe videos. Up until the change, the same scenario would apply to conspiracy videos.
YouTube said in the post that the action is meant to "reduce the spread of content that comes close to — but doesn't quite cross the line of — violating" its community policies. The examples the company cited include "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
And Liberal facism marches on...
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984
Medically inaccurate? So all those kooky "organic food" promoters and the anti-GMO nutcases? What about the fear-mongers trashing Roundup?
As if they knew what they were.
It’s a good thing for YouTube that no one else will ever be able to create a video sharing website that’s supported by advertising.
They have been doing it for awhile now. What they recommend is liberal green and global socialism garbage that has absolutely nothing to do with how to tighten a chain on a motorcycle or sailing tips. It’s ridiculous.
There is NO 100% politically unbiased view of what is or is not a conspiracy theory, and very often a view that something is not 100% correct medically speaking is a matter of one medical opinion over another, not any such thing as a “consensus”.
The problem is that correctly defined Youtube and its parent company are private companies and can make judgement calls as they see fit, but the market facts are that they are near monopolies and as such are operating near to the market monopolies of “public utilities” without being regulated as public utilities.
There are only two solutions at this time. One is for Google et al - including Facebook - to voluntarily exit 100% any role of censoring content - the sheeple need to do their own due diligence. The other is to regulate them as public utilities and ban them from censoring content.
Well..there goes all the Russian car crash vids.
Good! No more global warming videos then. /s
The most massive conspiracy of all time is the global warming hoax. We can be certain this too will be terminated on YouTube as per their community standards policy.
“Good! No more global warming videos then”
Yeppers.
RE: ((your excellent post quote))
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984
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May God protect us.
As soon as Michelle O, Oprah, Warren or Kamala wins in 2020 there is going to be nothing but socialist pseudo history left. Confederate statues, Founding Father ones or their portraits and writings, documents such as the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence? All gone.
They were all white racist men, after all. Now forgotten.
And the online stuff can be changed within minutes by the Deep State to erase the Facebook, Twitter and email trails of anyone.
God forbid.
While we are here and somewhat free in 2019 we MUST fight the socialist takeover of our country.
What's the point of establishing a policy that you then say doesn't mean anything?
So the Global warming scam is going to no longer be supported?
Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
Right!
My very liberal son-in-law lumped me in as a “conspiracy theorist” the last time I visited them.
I am not an ardent follower of Q-Anon, less so as time goes on... but I wonder if that counts as ‘conspiracy’ to them.
Alternatives to the hegemony of GOOG, FB and TWTR are necessary. There still remains the problem that the infrastructure connecting the internet/cell phones is highly concentrated and regulated; and that these companies are very close to US government agencies; and that competitors to them get marginalized by the MSM eg Gab was blamed for the synagogue shooting in PA. They are all too close to each other now.
One bright spot is that the courts have upheld restrictions on involuntary data collection by states and localities - they cannot force you to turn over your data or enter your password or fingerprint/face-recognition. But the real problem isn’t at the local level. It’s systemic.
I’m now using DuckDuckGo, which is great. And I find myself using Dailymotion and Vimeo more and more for videos. It may take a year or two, but these businesses are soon going to find that freedom loving Americans will discover and create better alternatives. Just say NO to Google and all its evil relatives.
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