Censorship across all social media platforms has gone completely rampant this year, we are basically living in Orwell's 1984

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

This is what I really don't get. The whole point of youtube was it was for ordinary people to broadcast content, the 'you' in youtube. Why now is it filled with CNN, Fox, and clips from shitty cable shows? Why do they recommend them over content for ordinary people? I can already watch that shit on TV and on their multi-million dollar news website. Google was the worst thing to happen to them.

[–]filbs111 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Partly the people with power in Youtube are politically motivated. And partly because money. The people who pay them money are also politically motivated.

[–]Canbot 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't buy the advertiser excuse. Every time they want to do something unscrupulous they first create an excuse for it and it is just so convenient to blame advertiser pressure. People just eat up that excuse without question, and blame corporate greed rather than the decision makers at the offending company.

[–]pyropulse 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Before the Adpocalypse, youtube creators were making way more money... because ads were seen by way more people. YouTube is starving content creators of which they don't want on the platform under the guise of "that isn't advertiser friendly content." Err, what? Advertisers want as many eyes to see something as possible; they don't give a flying fuck, unless it is some seriously fucked up shit. No one associates gamer word with a company just because their ad was on a video.

YouTube literally destroyed their ad revenue under the guise of "only allowing advertiser friendly content have ads" of which is supposed to INCREASE ad revenue by being 'advertiser friendly.' But if the result is a massive decrease in ad money, you know their reason was full of shit. They willingly reduced their ad revenue by large margins, under the guise of increasing ad revenue, because their actual goal is to push an agenda, and various youtubers that went against this agenda were starved via the 'adpocalypse.' That's what its primary goal was; to starve a certain demographic of youtubers.

[–][deleted] 0 insightful - 1 fun0 insightful - 0 fun1 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Youtube is pretty much funded by the government now