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LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Google/YouTube doesn’t care. If they can put ads on it and make money they will leave it up.

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  • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Youtube has recently started certifying people. You’ll find real doctors now have “Licensed Doctor in the U.S” or something like that.

    Sure the loons will still say their self-made expert is right, but it’s a step in the right direction for those who are still on the fence.

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    • jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That still doesn’t mean shit, just because someone has a piece of paper saying they passed some exams doesn’t mean they haven’t gone off the deep end - case in point, Jordan Peterson is or was a licensed psychologist in Canada.

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      • RedditWanderer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And what does a “maybe or maybe not” license psychologist have to do with climate-change science?

        Is climate some new deep field of psychology?

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m not saying they will do it voluntarily, but maybe some kind of pressure campaign could be effective. Accuse their advertisers of supporting climate denial. Is that seen as bad enough among the general public to be effective?

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    • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, if advertisers start pulling out then I could see something changing. But advertisers are unlikely to do that unless they stop making money from it as well. So a campaign like that sounds like a good idea but also will be very difficult to succeed

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  • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t think it’s that simple. I think the ethics of silencing people is keeping them from deplatforming far right or far left individuals. Also the flak they would receive might not be seen as worth it.

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    • PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Who specifically is on the far left and what is the opposite of performing a failed coup? Please don’t move the Overton Window.

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      • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Bro idk, I don’t pay attention to extremists except when they’re in the news. Was just trying to give a different viewpoint others might not consider

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    • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They could pay more staff to moderate, or use their fancy AI that they like so much.

      You might think it is unethical to silence different opinions which is a valid position. But on the other hand I see it as unethical to host dangerous misinformation and hateful content.

      YouTube is essentially a monopoly and there isn’t any realistic alternative for most people, so it’s not like they have to worry about backlash so much. That’s a whole 'nother issue though

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      • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree with you. I just wouldn’t know where to draw the line and where the content would never influence and create extremists. It’s hard I feel

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  • thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Google/YouTube doesn’t care.

    False, there been so much censorship since 2017 on Youtube. I remember so many Youtubers back them which are now been deplatformed. Google will censor channels that goes against globalism.

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    • glacier@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      censor channels that go against globalism

      Such as…?

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• asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  IMO there needs to be some kind of federal legislation saying that if a company is large enough, then they need to deplatform people who are promoting pseudoscience like climate denial or anti-vaxxers. At this point I’d argue climate denial is more harmful than Nazziism, which (I think / hope) is already actively deplatformed.

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  • sab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s tricky. Once you state “these subjects are above criticism”, it will become very easy to silence any criticism. It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see how such a structure could be abused by those in charge of it.

    Who watches the watchmen.

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  • thecam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What is wrong with you bro? If you do not like it, turn the channel. I do not want the state telling me what I can and cannot watch online.

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• jordanpeterson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  to no mind Jordan Peterson. I listened to him a lot, thought he just talked a lot without saying anything. But as soon as he started talking about climate change, something in which he has -zero fucking authority- , that’s when I started to really dislike him. P

  I strongly agree.

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