Youtube wants to remove the dislike button to help Biden

Jormungandr

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Yeah, I saw this on Tim Pool's feed.

The fact they need to do this just shows how popular the "most popular President in recent history" actually is.

People hate him. People hate Kamala. People, except NPC drones, hate the Democrats.

America is very close to its own French Revolution, and to be honest... I think you guys need it. The lunatics are running the asylum.
 

DarthOne

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Yeah, I saw this on Tim Pool's feed.

The fact they need to do this just shows how popular the "most popular President in recent history" actually is.

People hate him. People hate Kamala. People, except NPC drones, hate the Democrats.

America is very close to its own French Revolution, and to be honest... I think you guys need it. The lunatics are running the asylum.

Oh please....let us be honest with ourselves. It won't happen. For all the talk you get from the non-NPC dems about how the only reason people aren't acting out is due to them realizing what a Second American Civil War would cost, it's horseshit.

The fact of the matter is that people these days are far too comfortable, far too reliant on the government, and too tame to act out in a meaningful way. I'd even go so far as to call us domesticated.

I'm not being a doomer here, just an exceptionally embittered realist who no one will listen to and has no means to effect meaningful change.

In the past year, the USA has had one of the largest and most blatant electoral frauds and thefts in history. In response? Americans bitched about it but ultimately did nothing.

Americans have had their Constitutional Rights taken out from under them for decades and it's only intensified under Biden. Again, Americans have done nothing.

We've been stuck in a unecessary lockdown for over a year now over something less deadly than the flu. And even now, the Dems are willing to extend it indefinitely and force people to carry travel papers to prove they've been vaccinated. With a vaccine that is not only unnecessary but has done nothing but enrich a select few at the cost of the American people. Again, the Americans have done next to nothing in response.

Americans armed forces, businesses, and police forces are being continuously undermined, weakened, indoctrinated, and politicized by the Far Left. Again, next to nothing has been done in response.

The vast majority of our political leadership is either in on the action for their own ends, too corrupt, or just plain too ineffectual to do anything. And the people of the United States and the West, in general, will still be sitting around, waiting for someone else to do something until it's far, far too late to act.
 

What's the sitch?

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I think youtube will eventually lose its place as the "main site", as of late I find myself on it less and less as things are banned/removed or things I am not interested in populate the side bar.

I never even made a login and many videos are blocked to me so even less reason to see whats there.

Instead of being "The place" it will simply be "A place"

It's not really the downvote removal itself that is the issue, but next will be non youtube curated comments are not allowed etc etc etc. I literally do not watch videos if comments are not enabled. They are the best parts.
 

Terthna

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I've also heard people saying they're doing it to protect this or that major corporation who's videos are getting massive amounts of dislikes. Disney in particular is a popular assumption, considering how badly they've been lambasted ever since that whole Gina Carano fiasco.
 

Zachowon

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I've also heard people saying they're doing it to protect this or that major corporation who's videos are getting massive amounts of dislikes. Disney in particular is a popular assumption, considering how badly they've been lambasted ever since that whole Gina Carano fiasco.
Disney I don't think cares. They are one of the biggest companies in the world
 

Zachowon

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Never underestimate the pettiness of the upper echelons of society. Besides, It wouldn't be the first time they've gotten a platform to censor criticism of their products; and while they are one of the biggest, they're kinda strapped for cash right now.
Disney will be fine
 

Cherico

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In any event, the elites across the board have reason to be interested in making it so that the average person can no longer make their voices heard, and this seems to be just another step along that path.

any one who knows history knows that is an incredibly bad idea.

Average people making their voices heard gives you useful feed back and acts as a release valve.

If you silence them you no longer have that feed back so you become unable to course correct if you do something thats a major fuck up and with out the release valve you suddenly have more and more resentment building up until you get an orgy of violence.

Unfortantly for us this is a problem thats affecting the whole of western civilization, it will end but its going to take around 80 years and millions of people will be murdered.
 

Terthna

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any one who knows history knows that is an incredibly bad idea.

Average people making their voices heard gives you useful feed back and acts as a release valve.

If you silence them you no longer have that feed back so you become unable to course correct if you do something thats a major fuck up and with out the release valve you suddenly have more and more resentment building up until you get an orgy of violence.

Unfortantly for us this is a problem thats affecting the whole of western civilization, it will end but its going to take around 80 years and millions of people will be murdered.
I think you might be underselling the death toll; because when it happens, it's probably going to spark another world war. One in which I suspect nukes will be utilized.
 

Zachowon

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I think you might be underselling the death toll; because when it happens, it's probably going to spark another world war. One in which I suspect nukes will be utilized.
I dint thunk nukesvwill be used
 

Val the Moofia Boss

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I think youtube will eventually lose its place as the "main site", as of late I find myself on it less and less as things are banned/removed or things I am not interested in populate the side bar.

I don't see another site replacing/usurping Youtube's role as the go-to place for video content.

Nobody goes to Bitchute to watch a podcast on JRPGs, or Townsends' livestreams, or watch Shad talk about the medieval period. Normies aren't on Bitchute. Bitchute is, and probably always will be, a backup site for vocal content creators in case they get purged from Youtube. Only their most hardcore fans will follow them to Bitchute. That's not how you get normies to switch over from Youtube. It's like Twitter; sure you have alternative sites like Gab or Minds, but normies aren't on those platforms. Their friends aren't on those platforms. The people on Gab and Minds don't talk about stuff normies are interested in. Twitter is where their friends are and where people talk about anything, so normies will hang out on Twitter.

And besides, the big tech corporate hegemony will keep any alternative sites from getting too big, be it with Amazon terminating website server hosting services, or Google and Bing fudging search engine results, or banks refusing to do business with Andrew Torba, so he has to get checks in the mail to fund Gab. Also, friendly reminder that Youtube and Twitter have never turned a profit, and yet they're still going. Money keeps being poured into Twitter and Youtube at a loss because the point isn't about the money: it's about controlling people.
 

DarthOne

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any one who knows history knows that is an incredibly bad idea.

Average people making their voices heard gives you useful feed back and acts as a release valve.

If you silence them you no longer have that feed back so you become unable to course correct if you do something thats a major fuck up and with out the release valve you suddenly have more and more resentment building up until you get an orgy of violence.

Unfortantly for us this is a problem thats affecting the whole of western civilization, it will end but its going to take around 80 years and millions of people will be murdered.

And anyone who actually tries to stand up will be denounced as an alt-right Nazi terrorist, their bank accounts seized and any phone class, text or social media commentary that they made in the last decade will be dragged forward, taken out of context and blasted around the world as 'evidence'.

The only way anything will get done is if you get massive revolts that make the Russian Revolution look like a tea party.
 

JagerIV

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Yeah, I saw this on Tim Pool's feed.

The fact they need to do this just shows how popular the "most popular President in recent history" actually is.

People hate him. People hate Kamala. People, except NPC drones, hate the Democrats.

America is very close to its own French Revolution, and to be honest... I think you guys need it. The lunatics are running the asylum.

Of course, the people who take over will be the worst of the current powers purging the last remenants of right wing people and power.

Relocations generally don't put in more conservative people
 

f1onagher

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I think youtube will eventually lose its place as the "main site", as of late I find myself on it less and less as things are banned/removed or things I am not interested in populate the side bar.

I never even made a login and many videos are blocked to me so even less reason to see whats there.

Instead of being "The place" it will simply be "A place"

It's not really the downvote removal itself that is the issue, but next will be non youtube curated comments are not allowed etc etc etc. I literally do not watch videos if comments are not enabled. They are the best parts.
This is something a few personalities have been commenting on for two or three years now. YouTube was not a profitable purchase for Google and even the increasing ad cancer isn't helping much. As such you're seeing YouTube push more and more of their paid stuff, trying to become a type of Netflix style service. While more profitable for Google that kind of bullcrap is a death knell for open content posting which is what made YouTube the brand name for video hosting.

I don't see another site replacing/usurping Youtube's role as the go-to place for video content.

Nobody goes to Bitchute to watch a podcast on JRPGs, or Townsends' livestreams, or watch Shad talk about the medieval period. Normies aren't on Bitchute. Bitchute is, and probably always will be, a backup site for vocal content creators in case they get purged from Youtube. Only their most hardcore fans will follow them to Bitchute. That's not how you get normies to switch over from Youtube. It's like Twitter; sure you have alternative sites like Gab or Minds, but normies aren't on those platforms. Their friends aren't on those platforms. The people on Gab and Minds don't talk about stuff normies are interested in. Twitter is where their friends are and where people talk about anything, so normies will hang out on Twitter.

And besides, the big tech corporate hegemony will keep any alternative sites from getting too big, be it with Amazon terminating website server hosting services, or Google and Bing fudging search engine results, or banks refusing to do business with Andrew Torba, so he has to get checks in the mail to fund Gab. Also, friendly reminder that Youtube and Twitter have never turned a profit, and yet they're still going. Money keeps being poured into Twitter and Youtube at a loss because the point isn't about the money: it's about controlling people.
YouTube is not going to fade overnight, but steadily and by degrees there will be more and more content cross-posted or just offloaded onto alternative platforms. YouTube will still be the 800 lb gorilla for a long, long time, but we'll see a steady deflation in its numbers as sites like BitChute get better and better at doing the job YouTube used to do. MySpace is still around and has several hundred thousand users, but its not relevant anymore. So too will fade Facebook, Twitter, and eventfully YouTube. The assumption of permanence is a mistake humanity has made a million times before now and will make a million times after this. I really do think we're seeing the highwater mark of this generation of Big Tech.
 

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