Look, I grew up with the X-files and Twilight Zone and all sorts of manner of strange videos claiming some crazy bullshit that is straight out of left field. But I have to admit that it's actually a pretty solid move that YOUTUBE announces that they are no longer going to recommend conspiracy videos on their site to users.
The ease and access that folks have to not only soap box this crazy bullshit but also see a slew of other crazy nonsense is a little overkill if you ask me. I had a healthy dose of the nutty juice. Okay, that sounded wrong, but it's only because big Milk companies don't want you to actually drink nut juice. They're lining the pockets of other big companies to make sure that the only milk you drink comes from rats.
Yes, rats. Did you think that you were drinking cow milk? Silly person, how do you think that we support such a robust hamburger industry if we're keeping those cows alive to milk for... milk? man, when you think about it, the verb milk and the noun milk are the same but also have a different sort of usage. It's as if this is all being run by some super secret organization that is hell bent on controlling the masses.
I want to believe, Scully... I want to believe.
Anyhow, Youtube is no longer going to link you to some stupid conspiracy theory video because, let's face it, every fucking moron with some sort of bullshit half thought out conspiracy theory is posting their garbage rantings online and it really has lowered the actual ease in which you can get a decent conspiracy theory that you can sink your teeth into.
On top of that, why the fuck would you want to encourage Alex Jones even more. The fucktard is probably the worse of the worse and is a snake oil salesmen who has taken your idiot gun nut friends money a lot of times already.
The original blog post from YouTube, published on Jan. 25, said that videos the site recommends, usually after a user has viewed one video, would no longer lead just to similar videos and instead would "pull in recommendations from a wider set of topics."For example, if one person watches one video showing the recipe for snickerdoodles, they may be bombarded with suggestions for other cookie recipe videos. Up until the change, the same scenario would apply to conspiracy videos.YouTube said in the post that the action is meant to "reduce the spread of content that comes close to — but doesn’t quite cross the line of — violating" its community policies. The examples the company cited include "promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11."
I think it's a great move and I hope it does curb the amount of fucking morons out there who believe shit like the earth is flat. It's already troubling that so many believe that the holocaust didn't actually happen and that was something that we still have surviving generations from alive and well. So easy is it to just dismiss the whole concept that these atrocities occurred and it's so easy to follow a narrative that others put out there. So perhaps not allowing every nut job a chance on their soap box is a good thing.
The irony of me saying that when I'm writing this opinion piece is not lost on me, I just know that those of you who read this... ha ha.. like anyone actually reads this blog! are doing so with a specific mindset that you're not all brainwashed idiots who are easily influenced.
Anyhow, yeah, at least now my youtube auto feed isn't going to go from T. Swift videos on to some stupid conspiracy theory 10 minute video. Now can something be done about all those count down videos?
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