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Very, Very Few People Are Falling Down the YouTube Rabbit Hole | The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that::The site’s crackdown on radicalization seems to have worked. But the world will never know what was happening before that.

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[+] [email protected] -29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What a load of dog dung that article is. Justifying censorship, labelling everything that is not liked by some politicial "expert" as far right extreme.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

When an algorithm is involved, things change. These aren't static websites that only get passed around by real people. This is some bizarre pseudo intelligence that thinks if you like WWII history and bratwurst, that you'd also like neo-nazi content. That's not an exaggeration. One of my very left leaning friends started getting neo-nazi videos suggested to him and I suspect it was for those reasons.

Also, youtube isn't a free speech platform. It's an advertisement platform. Fediverse is a free speech platform, although it's free speech for the person paying the hosting bills.