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Google CEO Admits Company Must Better Address the Spread of Conspiracy Theories on YouTube (techcrunch.com)
Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted today that YouTube needs to do better in dealing with conspiracy content on its site that can lead to real-world violence. From a report: During his testimony on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, the exec was questioned on how YouTube handles extremist content that promotes conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and, more recently, a Hillary Clinton-focused conspiracy theory dubbed Frazzledrip. According to an article in Monday's Washington Post, Frazzledrip is a variation on Pizzagate that began spreading on YouTube this spring. In a bizarre series of questions, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) asked Pichai if he knew what Frazzledrip was.
Pichai replied that he was "not aware of the specifics about it." Raskin went on to explain that the recommendation engine on YouTube has been suggesting videos that claim politicians, celebrities and other leading figures were "sexually abusing and consuming the remains of children, often in satanic rituals." He said these new conspiracist claims were echoing the discredited Pizzagate conspiracy, which two years ago led to a man firing shots into a Washington, D.C. pizzeria, in search of the children he believed were held as sex slaves by Democratic Party leaders.
Pichai replied that he was "not aware of the specifics about it." Raskin went on to explain that the recommendation engine on YouTube has been suggesting videos that claim politicians, celebrities and other leading figures were "sexually abusing and consuming the remains of children, often in satanic rituals." He said these new conspiracist claims were echoing the discredited Pizzagate conspiracy, which two years ago led to a man firing shots into a Washington, D.C. pizzeria, in search of the children he believed were held as sex slaves by Democratic Party leaders.
They see and hear what you watch, then they use that information for deep web research to sell.
There is a conspiracy theory and involves the entire stuff of Google.
Jesus Google, just split off the conspiracy theory videos into it's own paid channel "YouTube Nutter".
This will immediately kill off all such content, given the success of YouTube Red, YouTube Music, YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, etc.
First of all get rid of comments. They are worthless. Second just have a system that allows for rating videos and reporting abuse. That is really all you need.
...in search of the children he believed were held as sex slaves by Democratic Party leaders.
that claim politicians, celebrities and other leading figures were "sexually abusing and consuming the remains of children, often in satanic rituals.
Seriously, if you think this is true then really isn't it a case of not getting your medication more than a problem with youtube?
"Dear representative, surely you're not trying to apply pressure from position of governmental authority on me, the private entity in violation of my first amendment rights? Are you at all aware of the principles outlined in constitution, and why they were put there?"
... they should just stop trying to be the gatekeepers on speech, and let ideas live and die on their merits.
Where thousands of Architects and Engineers study the event and find that science simply does not support the claims nor evidence being made in the official conspiracy theory?
Yeah - this is going to work..
Only Approved Conspiracy theories, like Hillary clinton would have won 100% of the vote if the Russians behind the tree didn't stuff the ballot box or that differences between men and women have nothing to do with differing interests or biology but are 100% because an evil cabal of men are holding women down at every instance are allowed on Youtube, Twitter, and other platforms. The Powers that Be do not want any competition for their narratives.
"Dear moron Luckyo, you don't have a 1st amendment case vs. Youtube for kicking your nazi conspiracy faggot shit off their platform, they owe you nothing, idiot. Sincerely - reality."
IMHO...
The KKK has covered for it's members kidnapping non KKK kids since the 70s.
If you are a victim you get dosed with scopolomine till you can't move, then thrown into a car trunk, oh and when the cops catch the kidnappers don't look for help, or a kidnapping case as the cops are most likely Klan themselves.
This is the real story, and the Klan is also behind the "conspiracy" about Hillary and "pizza gate" to cover for their own kidnappings of local kids.
Google, YOU JUST STORE AND SERVE CONTENT, ya morons. We don't need watching, or care taking, or judgement, or anything else from you. The talkies just come on when I click my mouse, your job is done. Freaking self important dicks.
Then: "Holy shit, the NSA is reading everything! Start encrypting more!"
Now: "The NSA is reading everything? Ridiculous! Another stupid conspiracy theory, bury it."
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Relegate that nonsense to conspiracy websites.
The problem is that YouTube wants to be the arbitrator of truth rather than let the community handle it. Add a link to videos that simply says "upload a response" and when someone uploads a video, that video is linked to under the original video and the video being responded to is linked on the response page. The community can then vote on the original and response so that garbage responses are voted down and good responses have a chance to be voted up.
YouTube wants to rule by tyranny rather than by encouraging dialog.
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When a search brand wants to publish its own news under it sown brand then it can keep its own staff to its own politics.
Let the rest of the internet publish what it wants and show "search" results for the users who expect to find content.
Censorship is not a result users want to pay for with ads.
Censorship opens the marketplace to competition who can actually "search" the internet without the constant party political removal of results.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
All we know about you is that you subscribe to retarded youtube conspiracy videos and try to promote that faggot shit on slashdot where at least half the people aren't as retarded as you are, apparently, so it fails.
All you're telling us is what a gullible retard you are. Seriously, are you an ACTUAL retard? Your fact-checking faculties obviously got lost along with Trump's wristwatch up Putin's ass.
Why don't they teach critical thinking in grade school? I don't understand why there are so many gullible people in the USA who want to stay that way. Maybe preachers are spreading it, and people believe their preacher because of family/town habit? I'm very uncomfortable sharing a country with so many idiots. Large quantities of such people are dangerous. They will get us poisoned, nuked, and/or locked up in Comcast Central Prison one of these days.
Table-ized A.I.
Except that the specific Youtube channel I pointed to has a narrator who is about 100 IQ points above you, dear anonymous coward. You keep watching your CNN...
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
I believe Doctor BlAseye-Ford!
No one in Hollywood would ever sexually abuse anyone, especially not children. We all know that politicians and celebrities run in completely different circles.
Yes, please. get rid of those fucking flat-earthers and moon landing hoaxers. Seriously, they are not just people with "differing viewpoints". They are a concerted, well organized plague of trolls and con-artists who's goal if solely to flood every single channel about science, astronomy, space-exploration, etc, to infuriate people and direct them to their innane and pathetic videos, in order to generate views and ad revenue.
They are a disease, a cancer of youtube.
Obviously they're a genius, they've monetized you being stupid over the internet successfully. Of course, that wouldn't even take a 50 IQ to do really. You're so fucking dumb you could literally be tricked by children.
Like Tiananmen Square https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Term limits in China?
Celebrities want their good movie reviews found and bad movie reviews banned?
Big brands want no results on their DRM efforts?
Repairing a computer is now a trade in counterfeit parts?
Time to help Spain with all results about anything to do with any Catalan declaration of independence.
Not find results about French protester?
Only find what a German government approves of politically?
Time for a real search engine again.
Removing content for the politics of NGO, nations, think tanks, European bureaucrats, faith groups, cults, celebrities will not result is a useful search product.
Users know what they enjoy search for. Provide that search service to the users and show them some ads. A search engine is not a publisher of content.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
people's own bullsh*t filters just need tuning.
my grandmother was a National Enquirer reader and told stories.
my grandfather was a great story teller, a lot of exagerations, but with a lot of truth.
my filter is pretty good, the scary part is I believe that the current round of theories have a lot of the truth in them.
the CIA loves blackmail, so who knows what crazy people & crazy things they use.
and with all the missing trillions, they have been doing some major work.
I like the researching ufo tech.
the religionous front will be upset when more information about history that refutes their teachings comes out.
Wouldn't it be great if giant sh1t eating pieces of garbage AC's couldn't comment on posts from actual Slashdot users? Yeah, it would.
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During his testimony on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee [...] Pichai replied that he was "not aware of the specifics about it."
How does a CEO of a company worth almost a trillion dollars go into a high profile meeting with the US House Judiciary Committee and _not_ already know about the things they're likely to ask about?
Maybe Pichai is in too much of a billionaire bubble to know about it directly, but he has people that ought to have informed him about probable topics long before the meeting itself. The implication is that either no one in the company is actually aware of what YouTube is recommending to people, no one in the company is willing to pass word up the chain of command if YouTube is recommending videos that should be reviewed, or someone in that chain of command believes that it doesn't matter what content YouTube is promoting as long as it gets them more views and thus gets them more ad revenue.
All three possibilities are disturbing and slightly scary, but i'd easily believe that any of them are true, especially that last one.
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As other commenters have said, only the approved "conspiracy theories" will be allowed.
Be nice if we saw more of the obvious facts such as the profits from stock speculation on 9/11 (on the airlines involved, and businesses residing in the WTC Twin Towers) went into an account with investment firm, Alex. Brown and Sons, a subsidiary of the Deutsche Bank, and that an inactive partner with Alex. Brown was CIA executive director, Buzz Krongard, whose wife was a partner with Apollo Asset Management which owned EurekaGGN, a fiber optics cabling company, which had just installed dark (still inactive) fiber optic cabling in the top 20 to 40 stories of the WTC's Twin Towers, and that aboard Flight 77 was a physicist with the Naval Surface Warfare Center who had previously worked on a research project about destroying building by injecting nanothermite into fiber optics cabling, then triggering it with a single laser pulse. Sadly, that physicist died aboard Flight 77, which crashed into the west wall of the Pentagon, killing almost all the auditors of the DIA's Financial Management Group who had recently discovered that $2.3 trillion in funds were missing from the DoD.
With several months, the asset values of hedge funds would double from $2 trillion to $4 trillion and we know after the fact that the stock speculation on those 9/11 business took place on the investment firm computer systems located in the Twin Towers. Now would facts like this be allowed???
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Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy added, "[T]he Free World depends on a free Internet. “. Too bad in practice they gleefully watched Ajit Pai crush that notion while they lined their pockets with $101M Big Telco Payola ( https://www.theverge.com/2017/... ).
Further, Republican Rep. Lamar Smith cited a debunked study ( https://www.politifact.com/tru... ) to claim Google provides biased results for searches about President Donald Trump. Smith accused Google of having a liberal bias "programmed into the company's culture."
If you're a platform, then you're just the delivery device.
Of course, you'd have to stop with the fucking editing, censoring everyone that doesn't follow your religion, stop trying evangelize your creed and just serve up videos.
Hint: 2018 rewind, where was your BIGGEST SUBSCRIBER youtuber Pewdiepie?
If you're a publisher, then understand the moment you start to pick winners and losers, when you put your finger on the scales (even if it's for a cause you really really believe in!) you are now RESPONSIBLE for the message.
IMO you should lose your section 230 exemption too, then. The EFF's position that Sec 230 allows basically any modding at all is hypocritical; they would certainly change the moment someone started to censor out EFF 'freedom' posts.
-Styopa
Only conspiracy theories taught in your local universities gender or ethnic studies departments are allowed. Such as:
* White people erased POC from the Middle Ages.
* Universities have rape rates higher than war zones.
* 19th Century colonialism was worse then Genghis Khan and a hundred other murderous tyrants combined.
* Only white people had slaves.
Speaking anonymously for obvious reasons.
My ex is an ex organized child rape victim who got away.
And said "satanic rituals" are only acts, deliberately made to be as ridiculous as possible, precisely so that if you tell your story, nobody will take you seriously. "Nevermind" the torn orifices, scars, leading submission when meeting the (rapist) parent and trashing the place in rage afterwards (a key mental symptom), etc.
A time of her childhood consisted of living in a "sex dungeon". Which is basically a bunch of prison cells, where you get rented out to customers for rape. Babies aren't even fed, as it is assumed they will just be "used up" before starving. And there are a lot of babies, if you have post-pubescent kids there too. She often tried to feed babies on literally cockroaches and her own spit. Futile, of course.
Yes, I know it sounds over the top. That's my point. It *is* beyond what any of us can accept as part of reality.
One of the girls ran away. But they caught her. And their standard punishment was as follows:
take all the kids to a nearby cave (to simplify things I say cave), string that girl up, take a mini-chainsaw "like doctors use", cut off both her legs, instantly cauterize the wound with fire and hot iron, then grill and eat one leg, and smearing the other one, blood first, through the faces of the kids, to show them what happens if you run away.
Mind you, the girl survived, and was still used for rape for quite some time.
My ex was a bit "luckier", as she was basically somebody's "girlfriend", who wanted (mostly) exclusivity.
When she was too old for him, she was taken, as if she was his kid, to one of the bigger child trading fairs (yes, there actually are many of those), near Washington D.C.. Where she was sold back to a German guy (she's originally from Germany), who brought her to Germany. The "dungeon" they had there, was raided by the police, not much later.
But the thing you'd probably would believe the least, is how much she had to fight, to not just default "back" into custody of somebody from that same local group.
I'm sorry, but this is actually real. Things like that actually really happen.
And while no, it certainly isn't just politicians, celebrities and the like, it's not like those groups were magically free from having some sick fucks in their ranks. It's not implausible that somebody might think they are all famous, if only one or two are, or it happens to be an exceptional event. Especially since the kids are also often fed drugs, to make it even harder, to retell what happened.
So please, for fuck's sake... people like us cannot even remotely imagine what sick fucks are out there. Go ask any veteran of a real war. (Not a beating, like the US rolling over Iraq in a week.) They can tell you atrocities from Vietnam, the Yugoslavian war, the concentration camps, the gulags, and so on, and so on, and so on. Maybe somebody will even tell you about the still existing US edition, called "black sites".
And by far the biggest problem all of those victims have to fight with, is even their own families not believing them. Because it is just so freaking out there! And there are such silly details! And there were these stupid girls who called somebody a rapist, and ruined his life, just for shits and giggles! (Yes, those exist too. Women aren't free from being sick psycho fucks. Actually, women often end up leading or managing those rape dungeons.)
I don't hope you ever get to experience something like this. I do hope you will have to calm your girlfriend when she has flashbacks though, and to prevent her from falling back into old patterns of expecting you to basically rape her during sex. (The brainwashing is strong, sometimes.)
One guy, one time, shot a few bullets hitting no living person.
Conspiracy theories have been with us for a very very long time without this ever happening!
But suddenly its dangerous to have these ideas flow freely?
With the Fake News propaganda and this shit its like we are finally getting close to some actual truth, which is why its now suddenly "dangerous" i think.
I am behind CGNAT with rapidly changing addresses and I frequently delete cookies and all other identifying browser state. Youtube's suggestion are extremely quickly based on the first few videos I watch in a browser session, whatever those videos are. This tells me that Youtube doesn't know a lot about me. Among the videos similar to the ones I'm watching, it always also recommends the craziest shit, from free energy devices to political extremist videos of various kinds, from antivax videos to financial conspiracies. It feels like it's trying to get to know me by making big excursions and watching which direction Iean. If that's how Google/Alphabet/Youtube treats a "neutral" customer, then it's not that they need to do something to address the spread of conspiracy theories: They need to stop spreading conspiracy theories. Quite frankly it's insulting to have that garbage recommended to me.
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The people tricking you are not children, buddy. They do it in a very smart, very cold and very calculated fashion. Again, keep watching mainstream stuff and you'll continue to think the world is all flowers and white unicorns.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=12642660&cid=57354060 - So you're the same Luckyo that lied and said plastic is totally OK to eat and have in your bloodstream.... why should anyone believe you?
You're a known liar. You should be censored on the merits.
Basically it's another excuse to label anything against the company's ideological bent as "conspiracy".
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When was it ever anything but a lunatic conspiracy theory for people who wanted to still feel decent with Trump-stink all over them that won't wash off. They voted for a monster, so had to pretend that everyone else is a monster, and he's secretly a hero. Pretty much standard Conservative fantasy-role-play.
No company or group of companies can prevent the spread of conspiracy theories - stupid ideas will spread and stupid people will believe them no matter the platform.
Just recently NASA offered to prove to Stephen Curry that we actually did land on the moon:
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25508943/nasa-offers-show-proof-moon-landing-golden-state-warriors-star-stephen-curry
All content platforms should let ideas live and die on their own merits. No one company or person should be the "arbiter of truth".
Our government is prohibited from restricting speech. Our government should also not be permitted to outsource that activity to private companies.
They aren't getting grilled by congress because of "conspiracy" videos. They have an agenda to censor conservative political videos, and its as clear as night and day to anyone who looks at it carefully. These fuckers aren't happy just to see your data to the highest bidder, they now want to have a walled garden around you to control what you can see and what you cant. Nope fuck you youtube I wont be using you anymore, and you can go stick google up your ass because im not giving you another fucking cent of my money you free speech hating cunt fuckers.
The so called spread of conspiracy theories is a conspiracy theory.
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It's their smugness and assumption that their popularity means they are correct, that's so utterly annoying.
Anticonspiracy theorists really are the absolutely worst kind of conspiracy theorists.
We need a nanny state. We're all too stupid to understand that almost everything on the Internet is fake. The Earth is flat but we maintain the lie to suit the cult-like belief in ancient Greek scholars. NASA faked the moon landing to win the space race, and maintain the lie to this day to protect their funding. Scientist made up global warming to suit their commie agenda. Fluoride is an 5th column project to mind control the entire US by destroying our ability to resist psychological domination.
The morons tricking you probably ARE children though, you're that simple.
conspiracy theories get publicity.
;)
The Mainstream Media! Hearsay, anonymous sourced accusations, etc. etc. etc.
In my book, anonymous source = Organizational/Personal Journalistic opinions/ideology for which they have no real proof to support. But it will really drive the ratings and the uninformed.
To call much of what is put out as News by the Mainstream Media Conspiracy Theories would be exceedingly kind. And no one really cares if they are true believers!
Getting your News from the internet (Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc) is idiotic. The same applies to most of the Mainstream Media
Just my 2 cents
You're a nutter. Not a real American of any value, deplorable nothing-scum. Prepare your anus Trumptards. Prison is coming.
in practice powerful propagandists prop up bad ideas all the time.
Put another way, there is no such thing as a "Free Marketplace of Ideas" anymore than there's a free marketplace anywhere or any time. In the absence of anti-trust laws you get robber barons, but I'd hardly call a regulated economy a "free marketplace".
So you make trade offs between protecting vulnerable groups and having freedom and innovation. Google's done an alright job so far. The only folks I've seen completely deplatformed ere the ones actively encouraging violence (and no, having your ad revenue go away isn't a deplatforming...).
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Slashdot users learn to change the subject instead of handing gutter trash their karma bonus. That sure would be great.
It's a conspiracy theory that the government wants us to stop talking about conspiracy theories! Bunch of paranoid freaks!!!
not all of them, but the Evangelicals are.
I'm inclined to think it has less to do with religion and more to do with the ruling class wanting to keep a lid on the working class. Too much education and critical thinking will get folks to start demanding better pay and working conditions.
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What they should do is stop making changes to Youtube that keep making it worse.
I'm getting kinda tired of people acting as if a bunch of techies in SF should be the ultimate guide on what is morally OK. People keep making the argument that these are private companies, not public services, and as such can do whatever they want on their platforms. From a simplified perspective this is correct, but from a more realistic viewpoint, these companies are forming an integral part of our social fabric, whether we like it or not, they have a duty to not censor, and they should be leaving people to make their own decisions. If they really cared, they'd provide users with simple to use but solid filtering systems, but they know that people may end up actually using this, and it would hurt ad revenue.
Fuck you you fucking censor. Your political censorship is going to have consequences, you better fucking believe that!
The simple solution doesn't even involve changing laws -- just enforce the DMCA on these companies.
YouTube is required by law to remove illegal content from it's platform, such as child pornography or copyright violating material.
If they remove any other content, then they become a publisher. By becoming a publisher, they are now liable for any copyrighted material on their platform as per the DMCA.
It is well past time for these companies to be treated as the publishers they have become and let the platforms die under the weight of copyright lawsuits until they decide to return to being content hosting services as they were to begin with.
Isn't it a bit self serving that a politician would be advocating for a private company to censor content which makes his type look worse?
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Paywall on wapo. But it's not just the evangelicals.
The church of progressivism is too, to wit:
You could see this church of progressivism as the approved cult of the ruling class, for liberal arts is a common "education" for politicians, journalists (checks and balances, baby!), and more generally for "the 9,9%".
Or, differently put, for the aspirational managerial class, that the ruling class deliberately(!) let grow too big. It is one of the reasons why the American Empire is crumbling, as are its western vassal states that did much the same thing. What is the traditional home church of the American ruling class, again?
So I went and searched a bit found e.g. this. Take a gem like
Compare and contrast "undermining parental authority" with "Everything is about power. Every situation is to be analyzed in terms of the bad people acting to preserve their power and privilege over the good people." as taught to kids in college, you know, just-out-of-puberty kids in college.
GOP in Texas platforming on "honor thy father and mother" is not surprising. That they come out and "oppose" the teaching of (very DEM) liberal arts stock-"rebelliousness" (which is all about "power" and "privilege") is not surprising either. If anything this is more proof that GOP and DEM are two sides of the same party's challenge coin.
If I wasn't fully aware of the one party with two faces system, and I believed that voting for either would be able to affect real change, this would actually be a reason to vote GOP, because I think that a church of academia (as the liberal arts colleges are most certainly building with their intersectional diversity identity politics) is a really bad idea, so this gets a pass in the least bad of two bad options sort of way. But of course, there's only one party and the rest is smoke and mirrors. Voting won't help you people, and anyway I'm neither a US resident nor a US citizen so I don't get to vote. You'll have to fix this mess all by yourself, kids.
censorship is doublegood.
If you're a platform, then you're just the delivery device.
Of course, you'd have to stop with the fucking editing, censoring everyone that doesn't follow your religion, stop trying evangelize your creed and just serve up videos.
Hint: 2018 rewind, where was your BIGGEST SUBSCRIBER youtuber Pewdiepie?
If you're a publisher, then understand the moment you start to pick winners and losers, when you put your finger on the scales (even if it's for a cause you really really believe in!) you are now RESPONSIBLE for the message.
IMO you should lose your section 230 exemption too, then. The EFF's position that Sec 230 allows basically any modding at all is hypocritical; they would certainly change the moment someone started to censor out EFF 'freedom' posts.
Thanks for putting it into perspective, when the most popular show is a guy playing Minecraft, the fuck do I care what they do with the rest of the platform really. How many of the users are even adults?
And as the narrator of the channel you posted, I appreciate your patronage. I make a lot of money off of gullible idiots like you who share my obviously insane videos. Why get a real job when I can just make up crap and make a video about it, and get ad revenue from retards like you?
Who is going to address the spread of conspiracy theories in the White House and Congress?
One can know a man but his enemies. If the faggottroll farm is stalking you, you must have said _something_ that was true.
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Oh, yeah, I thought not.
Soemthing tells me they're fine with all the screams of "Trump-Russia", or the "Bush-went-AWOL" stuff, or "the NRA controls the GOP", "Christians think the Earth is 6000 years old and Jesus rode a dinosaur" garbage, or the "Reagan made a deal with Iran to hold the hostages" stuff, or the "Bush went to war in Iraq for oil" stuff.
Yup... I'm sure all the conspiracy stuff will go away.
No more "big oil is intentionally killing the planet", and no-doubt we're certainly done hearing that all the AGW critics are bought-off by the fossil fuels companies.
I'm so glad all the talk of the political parties flipping sides as part of Nixon's "southern strategy" will finally be put to rest (after all, if anybody simply looked at the election results in 1968,1972,1976, and 1980 at the precinct level they'd know that one was a major joke).
The problem with censorship, "for the public good, of course" is that it all depends on who is doing the censoring and what their views of "truth" and "the public good" are. Once our society discarded the idea of objective truth, all bets were off on this stuff. The only way we can all attempt to get along now while we maintain such wildly different views of important things is by not allowing ANYBODY to censor, and by allowing all speech so that everybody is free to try to persuade peacefully. The alternative is ultimately either totalitarian force, or mob violence.
...until it hurts your ideological affiliation so much that becomes one of the factors causing Democrats white house.
Organizing protests and opposition via Facebook ok .... until they are organized against politically correct tax burden in France or organized voting in aforementioned spectacular defeat.
I can easily see the future without Web 2.0, without no user generated content at all.
When it was limited in 1980s to academics only, it was tolerable, because users were intellectual elite of society.
Now Web 2.0 is just a circlejerk of the entropically dominating dark matter.
I do not believe in karma. "Funny"=-6. Do good and forbid evil. Yours, Oft-Offtopic Flamebaiting Troll.
We can't have people posting up things that the scum in power don't want you to see!
It might lead to 'real world violence'. I thought that was illegal already?
Just laughable - people are able to see through and question what they are being told by the Jewish media 24 hours a day.
9/11 is a classic example - the evil "conspiracy theories" are just UNOFFICIAL conspiracy theories - the official story is itself - obviously - a "conspiracy theory", a theory about a group of criminals conspiring to carry out 9/11 - in the official story's case, they were all Arabs.
Basically they are trying to censor the truth because they have been found out.
They also doubtless invent ludicrous 'conspiracy theories' which everybody then sees are ludicrous and unbelievable, in order to promote 'guilt by association'. The Flat Earth conspiracy is a classic example, set up by NASA in order to 'discredit' anybody who questions the veracity of any of NASA's work.
LOL too at the use of the word "discredited" in the summary - like that means anything. "Oh no, they said a conspiracy theory was 'discredited', it must be rubbish then! Better not think too hard about it then!"
The 'Holocaust' is another classic lie from the Jew, the biggest lie of all. www.codoh.com Don't believe me, question it for yourself.
As long as they also ban all UFO conspiracy theories, flat earth theories, and Kardashian and other celebrity theories, I'm OK with this. But I'll bet the idiots that love to spread these around, including magazines like Us and People, won't put up with it.
I'm just wondering who gets to decide if it's a conspiracy theory or not.
I rarely read replies, it's my opinion and if you thought about your opinion a little more, I'm OK with that.
Rather like "Google CEO admits that users must each pay him £10 a day for life" etc.
The whole purpose of the internet is to allow EVERYBODY to post up any opinion that they want, and to question anything.
Don't like that? Probably because you're one of the ones whose lies are going to be exposed.
www.codoh.com
Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust.
Any woman who went through what you claim would *never* have a boyfriend. Methinks the sick fuck is you.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
Some plastics are, and in fact McDonald's shakes have, or at least one time had, such plastic in them.
Guns don't kill people; Physics kills people! - John Lithgow as Dick Solomon on Third Rock From The Sun
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NEWSFLASH: No one knows or cares who you are either. Your opinion is worth exactly as much as the other AC... absolutely nothing
The solution to kooky conspiracy theories is transparency and accountability: make it easy for anyone who cares to double-check, and it'll be obvious that they're dealing with half-baked bullshit.
Desperately trying to censor the "wrongthink" of people promoting their conspiracy theories just lends credence to their crazy claims.
If there's no substance to the conspiracy theory, why is "The Establishment" trying to suppress it? What are they hiding?
It's really twisted that Silicon Valley companies are spending so much effort on building communication platforms and then being upset by what people are communicating.
and you can get around the paywall. They don't go out of their way to enforce it.
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outrage culture. Like right wing SJWs. It's folks using outrage of any kind to get Youtube views, ad-clicks and Pateron donations.
There's a youtuber named "Cult of Dusty" that does a good job calling people out on this. He made the point that there's only so many blue haired college chicks saying crazy anti-man crap out there, so that we're getting increasingly crazy attacks on things that are "SJW" and the like. The left wing SJWs for their part are often happy to join in on the circle jerk of clicks and Pateron donations, though I don't think they do as well as the right wing guys.
It's all crap to distract you and me from economic issues like healthcare, low and declining wages, expensive college and are general declining standard of living. If you're engaging in it yourself stop it. It's a mean, nasty thing to do. If you've falling in with the anti-SJW crowd get yourself out and start focusing on real, substantive economic policy instead.
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Being a member of the Illuminati and the Knights Templar...
People say here all the time Google is a private company that can silence PragerU and the conservatives ...
But the truth is the HIDE that they do this as much as possible.
This is just a pretext to silence the politics they don't like even more.
yep.. guys an asshole
the dividing line is pretty clear. As soon as you call for violence, either directly or in the classic "Won't someone rid me of this meddlesome priest" way then blamo, out you go. At least as far as deplatforming goes. If you take it far enough you'll face criminal charges (just like that kid who kept swatting did) though if you keep a modest lid on it you can at least still get a web site hosted, much like Alex Jones does.
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Happened to my friend's girlfriend too. She said she was in a sex cult from the ages of 2 to 9 years old in Ghana along with a group of other kids. She said all the kids got shipped off to different countries. I asked her if she ever saw any of the children get killed and she replied, "No, but I saw them get hurt very very badly." Apparently, after they've wired the kids' minds to have disocciative identity disorder, schizophrenia, hypersexuality, etc.. then as adults, the cult handlers can give them drugs to induce different states; make them childlike and helpless, violent, make them forget, and even drugs to make them basically normal, intelligent, and functioning. It's been a real battle for my friend to help her in any way.
They busted a prostitution ring involving a handful of cops in NYC on Sept 13th, 2018. You think those were the only "family" bad guys with jobs in gov't and social work? No... this shit is real. Brainwashing and childhood sexual trauma. You nerds must devise a solution. Use blockchain to ensure information integrity. Use gov't oversight to identify these family connections. Then bust these sickos. They can identify each other. Surely they can be identified. I'm begging you nerds out there to save the kids. I know you can do it.
I'm so tired of all these people being able to say things I don't approve of! Cen-sor-ship! Cen-sor-ship!