Excellent video! I agree, the whole idea of picking 'authoritative sources' to determine harm or misinformation is vague at best, and just gives RU-vid the wiggle room to say nice things while selectively enforcing what they want.
4:20 - One of my skits was removed for spreading misinformation about covid. The video itself was literally a video making fun of Covid deniers and had a disclaimer ‘that this was a joke’ -at the start. I find this so stupid considering there are 100’s of vids of people actually denying Covid that haven’t been affected.
Community guidelines should be hammered out by the community. The problem is which community decides on what. RU-vid is like the world: big, loud and discordant. The platform is a form of media and thus, is a tricky tool to use. Personally, I don't think opinions should be censored. Where would it stop? IDK.
This makes complete sense. Especially what you said in the end. The sad part is I used to watch that "daddy 0 five" channel for the longest time. As I was a tad younger and didn't see the "twisted" side of it. I saw it as being "okay". However, when I started seeing videos exposing the channel and how they explained how the channel was bad. It started to make more sense. I think it's disgusting for anyone to "use" their kids for content. Let alone discipline them or harm them is they don't comply with your wishes.
Idk if this is related. But I was on a News binge for a day or 2. CNN, MSNBC, CBS, etc. I stopped binging it after I got a random video (recommended btw) about China. Specifically, "How good the chinese communist party is" and "how good China is is in the time of Covid compared to the rest of the world." This was a chinese sympathy channel and it was made, more than likely, by the chinese Govt. My question. Why in the fuck was it recommended to me, an American, with no prior viewing of Chinese propaganda?
As I understand it, RU-vid doesn't see any of it's users as individuals, rather they see us as an amorphous mass. Some of the mass likes this type of content, some of the mass dislikes that type of content, etc. So it'll look at what you enjoy, then it'll try to determine what people like you enjoy, depending on what you've clicked on/watched/etc. Also keep in mind this is a computer program, and they do some weird stuff from our perspective. However, this is just some idiot's take on the all-powerful Algorithm, so take everything stated here with a grain of salt.
Yes, but the follow up question is who decides what is considered a threat to public safety? Because I'm sure RU-vid would currently argue that they are fulfilling that requirement right now.
@@Bored_Barbarian Again, if some medical experts disagree with an 'authoritative source' about the current pandemic, does that constitute being 'patently false'? If the same caliber of people who do flat earth stuff theorize that the pandemic was planned, does that meet the threshold of 'patently false or evil'? Does celebrating socialist regimes or leaders that killed comparable number of people to WWII count as being evil? Who decides which leaders count as evil and ban-able vs acceptable? The problem with the standard of 'false or evil' is that we are in a single-screen-two-movies sort of time right now, and we as a society don't have an agreed upon definition for what is evil and what is false (specifically with the false I'm talking about 'fact checkers' that instead of labeling some things as false or true just say "Missing context" if they want to rule favorably on a given subject) Does that make sense?
Your take is so good I heavily agree with you! I think you’re so spot on! And I feel like a solution to this problem is to have a coalition of massive creators who all protest against RU-vids injustices. And make it a big social issue.
to be honest, COVID misinformation can cause serious harm to countless people, and even beyond that morally imagine the court cases if RU-vid allowed spreading information which can cause to the death of people. I completely understand why they suppress "covid misinformation", and to be honest it's even justified. Demonitising people for using that word in a video is absolutely too much, but still.
