Comment on Why is youtube suggesting aggressive actions against protestors?

SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• meldroc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Algorithm’s designed to promote engagement. Getting angry groups screaming and trying to murder people counts as engagement.

  As long as the screaming and arguing drives revenue, they don’t care about the murdering part.

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• Danterious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I wish people weren’t angry at the protest but instead at the more oppressive forces of society. Also sorta unrelated but what does Otoh mean?

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  • average650@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Otoh= on the other hand

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    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I thought it stood for Ordo Templi Orientis Hermeticists all this time!

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    • Danterious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ah ok. Thx.

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  • SJ0@lemmy.fbxl.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Everyone will have their personal perspective on certain protests based on a number of factors.

    A lot of people wanted the BLM riots shut down with lethal force because of the senseless violence and destruction in some cities. Otoh, some people thought they didn’t go far enough. Someone whose city was destroyed would have a different perspective than someone whose city was just fine. People might have different views based on their view of the black community and their relationship with the rest of American society.

    A lot of people thought the trucker convoy in Canada was a just fight against oppression, but many people thought they were just a bunch of antivaxx confederate Nazis and thought the use of any level of violence was justified because they were disrupting people’s lives and they were secretly trying to clone Hitler. There was a broad spectrum of views and they only represented a piece of that spectrum.

    Real politics is usually more complicated than just good vs. evil, it’s really hard having one set of rules that apply equally and equitably to diverse people.

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    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Saying cities were ‘destroyed’ is a bit hyperbolic. Even the cities with the craziest riots, like Portland just had a block of the city dedicated to it. The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), that the news used to make Portland look like a warzone, only covered 2 intersections of the city.

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      • CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the point they were making was that someone whose home, safety, or means of income were damaged or destroyed would have a different perspective than someone who wasn’t adversely affected, regardless of the big picture.

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      • Drusas@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        CHAZ was in Seattle and it was massively overblown by the media. I live here. It was like two square blocks and mostly full of young people treating it like a festival.

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      • jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Also worth noting that a study show a lot of the violence was started by cops, and then people reciprocated. Another study noted 90-95% of the protests were peaceful.

        Only bigots call them riots, to push a political narrative.

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    • Danterious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah real politics is complicated and messy but that doesn’t mean we should demonize the act of fighting for our rights. And that is the thing that I am worried about. That people are starting to see fighting for your rights as a bad thing.

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      • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They don't see it as fighting for your rights, is the thing, though. They see it as petulant children whining about not getting dessert*.

        *not my opinion

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    • CloverSi@lemmy.comfysnug.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Beautifully put my friend. If you ever run for office you have my vote.

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