YouTube could break the echo chamber effect by recommending good quality videos on the same topic. If someone is interested in vaccinations, there's no reason to just recommend conspiracy videos on the topic.
if I'm watching anti-anti-vaxxer videos would YouTube recommend actual anti-vaxxer videos?
That said, I'm a lefty McLefty and I get the occasional right wing video in my channel. Mostly Sargon of Arkad. I used to get a fair amount of them actually because I subscribe to a bunch of atheist channels (Aronra, Genetic Skeptic) but the bulk of the YouTube skeptic community pivoted to anti-SJW vids about a year ago (more view, more patreon donations, they followed the money) and I couldn't care less about that
That of course seems to be the response from the people who spout the "right wingers never listen to anyone but their echo chamber" types.
Hell in the last week with the bullshit surrounding the liberals and snc-lavalin, I've heard lefties say "it doesn't matter if it's true. Wayburn should never have broken ranks and simply covered up the corruption."
Well of course there's that tribalism. Circling the wagons is just to be expected.
But on the subject I've called Youtube a marketplace of ideas in the past, and that's how I've used it as well as to source original material. Now that the powers that be are fully aware of how troublesome it is to just allow anyone to have their voice reach an audience of millions world wide, I don't expect Youtube to be as useful in the future.
Just like the mainstream corporate press-titutes, the sword of Damocles is already
"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging
their prejudices."
-- William James
Echo chamber (Score:5, Insightful)
YouTube could break the echo chamber effect by recommending good quality videos on the same topic. If someone is interested in vaccinations, there's no reason to just recommend conspiracy videos on the topic.
Doesn't that go both ways? (Score:2)
That said, I'm a lefty McLefty and I get the occasional right wing video in my channel. Mostly Sargon of Arkad. I used to get a fair amount of them actually because I subscribe to a bunch of atheist channels (Aronra, Genetic Skeptic) but the bulk of the YouTube skeptic community pivoted to anti-SJW vids about a year ago (more view, more patreon donations, they followed the money) and I couldn't care less about that
Re:Doesn't that go both ways? (Score:2)
Sargon is right wing? The guy is further left then Justin Trudeau, and Jr is pretty far left. Far enough that he almost aligns with the NDP.
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Sargon criticises and mocks 3rd wave feminism and intersectionality, so yes he must be right-wing. There is no middle ground anymore.
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That of course seems to be the response from the people who spout the "right wingers never listen to anyone but their echo chamber" types.
Hell in the last week with the bullshit surrounding the liberals and snc-lavalin, I've heard lefties say "it doesn't matter if it's true. Wayburn should never have broken ranks and simply covered up the corruption."
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Well of course there's that tribalism. Circling the wagons is just to be expected.
But on the subject I've called Youtube a marketplace of ideas in the past, and that's how I've used it as well as to source original material. Now that the powers that be are fully aware of how troublesome it is to just allow anyone to have their voice reach an audience of millions world wide, I don't expect Youtube to be as useful in the future.
Just like the mainstream corporate press-titutes, the sword of Damocles is already