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'Why YouTube's New Plan to Debunk Conspiracy Videos Won't Work' (vortex.com)
Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein believes YouTube's plan to combat conspiracy videos with "information cues" is "likely doomed to be almost entirely ineffective."
The kind of viewers who are going to believe these kinds of false conspiracy videos are almost certainly going to say that the associated Wikipedia articles are wrong, that they're planted lies... Not helping matters at all is that Wikipedia's reputation for accuracy -- never all that good -- has been plunging in recent years, sometimes resulting in embarrassing Knowledge Panel errors for Google in search results...
The key to avoiding the contamination...is to minimize their visibility in the YouTube/Google ecosystem in the first place... Not only should they be prevented from ever getting into the trending lists, they should be deranked, demonetized, and excised from the YouTube recommended video system. They should be immediately removed from YouTube entirely if they contain specific attacks against individuals or other violations of the YouTube Terms of Service and/or Community Guidelines. These actions must be taken as rapidly as possible with appropriate due diligence, before these videos are able to do even more damage to innocent parties.
The key to avoiding the contamination...is to minimize their visibility in the YouTube/Google ecosystem in the first place... Not only should they be prevented from ever getting into the trending lists, they should be deranked, demonetized, and excised from the YouTube recommended video system. They should be immediately removed from YouTube entirely if they contain specific attacks against individuals or other violations of the YouTube Terms of Service and/or Community Guidelines. These actions must be taken as rapidly as possible with appropriate due diligence, before these videos are able to do even more damage to innocent parties.
I used to be quite tolerant of LBGT people myself, until I lived in a town which contained an unusually high percentage of these people.
While living in the aforementioned town I learned some new things.
Many of these people are very psychologically sick, and the sickness extends FAR beyond their sexual preferences. These people are often emotional cripples and they have an alarming propensity to literally force their views on others. I now understand why LBGT people are hated by some people : their very behavior makes them easy to dislike. I doubt it is possible for a person to understand how distasteful the behavior of the LBGT people is unless that person experiences an environment in which the LBGT are the majority. Believe me, when you are in that scenario, these LBGT people are very unpleasant indeed : they are so unpleasant that it becomes very difficult or even impossible not to have negative thoughts about them and their weirdness.