Youtube cancels public dislike count on videos.

They want to push the stuff that makes money. Regardless of what it is. It's algorithms push everything I hate into my feed. Tries to hide the stuff I'm interested in.

This is all more of the same.

Newstalk will be delighted.

I have no strong feelings one way or the other...

Don't forget St George and BLM crowd

Barring compyright infringement its pretty hard to get banned from Youtube in reality.

Not really. If you get demonitized you need to rethink what you were doing rather than blame everyone else.

Unfortunately de-monetization is quite random without any logic.

Like many things, the internet was a bastion of freedom to people when it was in its infancy and like everything else governments and large corporations don’t want this, This is just another step on regulating the internet and social media. This is just the way things are going to go, all it will take though is for someone to sense a gap for a video sharing site that was like the old YouTube but without all the extremist nonsense on the likes of bitchute and everyone will jump ship.

So what do you propose making it illegal for all companies to have any agenda whatsoever? Also your entire position is contradictory and absurd, people pick sides everywhere, everyday.

"In 1994, Carmen Hermosillo published a widely influential essay online, "Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace",[4] and it began to be argued that the use of computer networks had led not to a reduction in hierarchy, but actually a commodification of personality and a complex transfer of power and information to corporations."

Orwellian, they want to try and hide the fact that people are downvoting woke garbage and other political crap.

It's pure social engineering.

Why else would they be doing this ?

Disabling comments is as said usually a last resort as it negatively effect the magic "engagement" that ads like so much.

This. I have no doubt this action has corporate motivations behind it, but we're also beginning to understand that exposing everyone to everyone else may not in fact be a great idea.

Very little good has come of providing dislike/downvote/disapprove reactions on the web. On a small scale, in niche communities they work - where everyone is part of a "community" and uses the button as an honest vote.

Exposed to the wider public - people who are not part of the community - it becomes something else. It becomes a way to manipulate opinion, to bully & attack. It's no longer an honest vote. It's a critique, and it's not an honest one. It's a drive by bitch from some curmudgeon, or an attack by someone who hates the way you look or the way you talk or the football team you follow, or what gender you identify as, or the fact that you use the word "identify".

It's given birth to these enclaves of hate. To the widespread use of social media to bully opinions you don't like into silence. Driven people to suicide.

We already know, and have known for years, that angry people are more likely to express an opinion than happy people, even when on balance there are happier than they are angry.

So providing an outlet for that anger to be taken out against other individuals serves no beneficial purpose except to cause a spiral of negativity. Anger feeding anger feeding anger.

The reality is that by default, reviews and upvotes/downvotes should not be active on any platform where people upload independent content. We don't need these to assess the value or popularity of something. Things become popular because people pass it amongst themselves. Views counters are useful as metrics, but every gobshite throwing their vote against it, doesn't actually serve any purpose anything except to give a place for angry people to get a kick in.

If people don't like it, they won't share it. If they do, they will. Therefore things naturally become popular without the need to be "voted" popular. This is how society has worked for millenia.