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YouTube announces it will no longer recommend conspiracy videos

Dohnjoe

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/youtube-announces-it-will-no-longer-recommend-conspiracy-videos-n969856

The examples the company cited include "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."

About time.

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Ipso

nullzero wrote: »

The idea that this is a "good" thing and that these ideas are "dangerous" is laughable.

I look forward to the world when everyone agrees with you and your pals and all other ideas are outlawed, things will be good then I'm sure, I really can't wait.

Well the idea that some mental defect on youtube should be treated as if their opinions should be treated as fact is laughable.

nullzero

The Nal wrote: »

Cracking down on 5G now too which is good

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/youtube-to-suppress-content-spreading-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory

The idea that this is a "good" thing and that these ideas are "dangerous" is laughable.

I look forward to the world when everyone agrees with you and your pals and all other ideas are outlawed, things will be good then I'm sure, I really can't wait.

The Nal

Cracking down on 5G now too which is good

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/05/youtube-to-suppress-content-spreading-coronavirus-5g-conspiracy-theory

Steve F

I hope to Christ the "Elvis is Alive" Looney Tunes are included in the ban. Jeez!!

JustAThought

Some of the mad ideas and frankly disgusting comments on the Holocust and Sandy Hooke in this thread woukd make you support the kind of censorship youtube have announced.

Notwithstanding the flat earth nutjobs, scandals such as Seargent McCabe who was systematically destroyed by agents of the state at the highest level and which was supported by false documwnts and fake investigatioms.by other state agencies (Tulsa) under the eye of government ministers need an outlet to document their cause and claims. Just as with the paedophile rings in the UK ignored by thwir chold.protection agencies and local police taskforces that Tommy Robinson eventually got.into trouble reporting on - these claims were circulated pre youtube in papers and written victim statements hidden and supressed by state bodies for DECADES and never properly investigated or reported on. As with many other non popular scandals ignored or supported by the prevailing powers.
The truth needa a platform - even if.it surrounded by nonsense fake claims like the flatearthers etc.

As the governments including our Irish one increasingly tried to.control and suppress social.media this is becoming more and.more an issue. Who controls the news and who dictates what we can know.or hear about?
.Its not so long ago since we watched.in disbelief the starving men in concentration camps and death camps in Boznia in the 1990s - utterly.denied by their.government - the un is still.investigating forensically death camps and.killing sites.for.thousands.of governmemt ignored army civillian.murders based on religion. All denied at length by their.government.

Here we have the ongoing HSE government sulressed scandal ofgivernmwnt salaried HSE doctors and consultants hiding false medical results from.women - who are now dying and sueing a releluctant government who is dragging them through the courts hoping they will die before their delayed cases.come.up.for.trial.

We have a state media (RTE) that is effectively a press.release.agent for.the government and this same governmwnt controls.the radio by issuing licenses for.them - and refusing to renew.or.taking off.licenses.for.those that refuse to play by their 'rules'.

We need to be very careful.about how we.allow.knowledge to be issued, packaged and controlled. No.doubt we are adult enough.to sift through the nonsense - but the.media embargo.from rwanda and that genocide - the blanket government ban.on any reporting from Burma and the genocides in Tibet - not to.mention the harveating of human organs from Falung Gong/Dafu practitioners that took a Canadian Ambassador to investigate and speak up against. These were all.censored , flatly denied, journalists imprisoned or dissPpeared and utterly poopoo-ed before they wereproven to be true - usually by smuggled.out images and bits.of video in pre youtube days.

Why shut down the.greatest.resource the common man and victim has ? The odds are always stacked in the persecutors favor.

Overheal

Amazon also pulling Anti-Vax docs from streaming

Dohnjoe

Youtube removing ads off anti-vaxx conspiracy videos. About time, and in future I wouldn't be surprised to see this encompass other junk science/conspiracy stuff

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47357252

Cheerful Spring

Gonad wrote: »

Not saying it’s a hoax but a lot of strange **** about that situation . Here is a few of the teachers who were there that day and not one tear thinking back to small kids getting massacred
Seems like they have some agenda they are pushing more than teachers who seen little kids getting blow away

https://youtu.be/grNzY4CQwnM

How can they pull off a hoax in a town where everyone knows each other business? Imagine any town or village in Ireland! Someone going to notice this never happened.

Sandy Hook population is 614 people, they could not keep that many people quiet.

The Nal

Study blames YouTube for rise in number of Flat Earthers

Feel sorry for the people who actually believe in this stuff. Youtube is such an influential platform though.

Dohnjoe

The comments on the Sandy Hook video, horrendous

Ipso

Good old JAQing off.

Dohnjoe

Gonad wrote: »

Here is a few of the teachers who were there that day and not one tear thinking back to small kids getting massacred
Seems like they have some agenda they are pushing more than teachers who seen little kids getting blow away

I just watched the video. It's teachers being interviewed 2 years after the shooting.

Not sure I get your view, they aren't showing "enough emotion" for you?

It appears you somehow find that "strange" and believe there is some agenda? what agenda? What are you suggesting?

And to come back to this:

Not saying it’s a hoax but a lot of strange **** about that situation

What are you saying?

Gonad

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Yup, grief does weird things, my friend was laughing at his mother's funeral last year.

Unless of course you believe he's an "actor", in which case I have a lot of questions

Not saying it’s a hoax but a lot of strange **** about that situation . Here is a few of the teachers who were there that day and not one tear thinking back to small kids getting massacred
Seems like they have some agenda they are pushing more than teachers who seen little kids getting blow away

https://youtu.be/grNzY4CQwnM

uptherebels

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

9/11 has evidence of conspiracy though there a big difference.

Ya sure "evidence"

Dohnjoe

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

So does also a famous holocaust researcher, so by your definition, he is a holocaust denier.

No, you don't understand or are pretending not to understand basic concepts involved. Despite people explaining them to you like an adult would describe to a child.

It's almost as if you are playing a character

Then there's your grammar, you'll type highly complex sentences with perfect English, then in the next the sentence will be as if a 5 year old wrote it, I'll let people make of that what they want.

Cheerful Spring

Dohnjoe wrote: »

You are openly a holocaust denier who challenges only the Jewish figures and maintains that "the Jews" have exaggerated/manipulated the figures

Your views on historical events and what constitutes evidence is highly questionable

So does also a famous holocaust researcher, so by your definition, he is a holocaust denier.

Dohnjoe

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

Holocaust researcher and a respected one at that believes what I do.,6 million number is wrong.

By your classification and point of view he is also a holocaust denier.

You are openly a holocaust denier who challenges only the Jewish figures and maintains that "the Jews" have exaggerated/manipulated the figures

Your views on historical events and what constitutes evidence is highly questionable

Cheerful Spring

Dohnjoe wrote: »

You're a holocaust denier who believes that you know more than the consensus of world historians. So you making a claim there is evidence of a conspiracy means zero.

Holocaust researcher and a respected one at that believes what I do.,6 million number is wrong.

By your classification and point of view he is also a holocaust denier.

Dohnjoe

biko wrote: »

Although youtube is a private company and can do what they like, every time they censor more content they shot themselves in the foot.

They aren't censoring the content, they are removing recommendations

Although in the future if they started to remove, e.g. pseudo-scientific anti-vaxx videos removed and I think you'll find most people won't be too bothered

Cheerful Spring

Gonad wrote: »

Come on some of this so called conspiracy **** don’t add up

This guy was laughing a few seconds before giving this interview but they cut it out

https://youtu.be/A4rwdriJpkc

I have a hard time believing this a real conspiracy. It happened. There local press who look into this, other children are attending the school and are likely friends with some of the children. Parents of other children alive would not hold back speaking about it if was fake Plus the local police and community would know if it was a conspiracy.

Dohnjoe

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

9/11 has evidence of conspiracy though there a big difference.

You're a holocaust denier who believes that you know more than the consensus of world historians. So you making a claim there is evidence of a conspiracy means zero.

biko

Although youtube is a private company and can do what they like, every time they censor more content they shot themselves in the foot.

Cheerful Spring

Dohnjoe wrote: »

It's clear they are reducing the impact/footprint of pseudo-science and blatant disinformation on youtube, they literally highlight 911 as an example

"The examples the company cited include "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."

9/11 has evidence of conspiracy though there a big difference.

Claiming the earth is flat is ludicrous and can be debunked by just looking at the moon. Why would the earth look different from the moon? These people don't use common sense and logic to support their positions.

Dohnjoe

Cheerful Spring wrote: »

There evidence they trying to remove people who are asking real questions about 9/11.

It's clear they are reducing the impact/footprint of pseudo-science and blatant disinformation on youtube, they literally highlight 911 as an example

"The examples the company cited include "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."

Dohnjoe

Gonad wrote: »

Come on some of this so called conspiracy **** don’t add up

This guy was laughing a few seconds before giving this interview but they cut it out

https://youtu.be/A4rwdriJpkc

Yup, grief does weird things, my friend was laughing at his mother's funeral last year.

Unless of course you believe he's an "actor", in which case I have a lot of questions

Gonad

Come on some of this so called conspiracy **** don’t add up

This guy was laughing a few seconds before giving this interview but they cut it out

https://youtu.be/A4rwdriJpkc

Cheerful Spring

Dohnjoe wrote: »

Not sure why it's a question of trust, the people running a platform have decided they want to remove recommendations of disinformation and dangerous videos (fake medical advice)

I am pretty surprised they aren't removing that content altogether (although I expect that's in the pipeline somewhere)

There evidence they trying to remove people who are asking real questions about 9/11. I noticed they don't touch the people on Youtube who spread disinformation. They crazier your theory is on Youtube and more views you have they leave you alone. There a channel I watch sometimes he recently got a letter from Youtube saying they no longer monetize his videos. It very strange because his debunking the Bob Lazar claims and other kooky conspiracy information. His 9/11 research is really good, so I wondering if there some plan here to allow the more far-out theories to continue, but cripple the conspiracy channels of people who are rational and sane.

Alex Jones is an exception to my point though.

Cheerful Spring

King Mob wrote: »

Well you've yet again avoided my simple direct question. So I think it's not worth continuing this discussion.

You don't answer his questions why should he bother with yours?

[Deleted User]

Well you've yet again avoided my simple direct question. So I think it's not worth continuing this discussion.

Dohnjoe

Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo wrote: »

YouTube announces it will no longer...

What the op was referring to.

Not sure why it's a question of trust, the people running a platform have decided they want to remove recommendations of disinformation and dangerous videos (fake medical advice)

I am pretty surprised they aren't removing that content altogether (although I expect that's in the pipeline somewhere)