4dpuzzle

I deeply hate YouTube, and I hate that I have to depend on them for some content. Their enormous resources and a huge cache of useful videos make them a monopoly. And they leverage that advantage in truly aggressive and extortionist ways, after killing off all potential competition by initially offering their services for free.

Every platform has to have some form of moderation to protect their users from harm including bullying, nudity and violence. But YouTube’s censorship algorithms are biased political bullies themselves. They kill heated, but necessary discussions and even entire topics. It’s also very biased in some social topics that they essentially define the narrative and culture in seriously damaging ways.

Examples include the topics of rapes and porn. Sure, they’re distressing or disturbing topics for many. But how do you solve them if the discussion around them is completely shutdown? How do you avoid those words in videos raising awareness, crime videos, etc? And how ridiculous is it that grapes 🍇and corn 🌽 should take the fall for Google’s narcissistic stubbornness? The future generations are going to be baffled by this idiocy that they inflicted on us!

At this point they’re too big to fail and they consider it beneath them to address the grievances of the creators or the audience. No company should have so much power over the society. Google should have been splintered into thousands of little pieces and sprinkled all over the planet a long time ago.

It’s high time that we leave YouTube behind and migrate elsewhere, wherever that be. Continuing to depend on them will be willful and irresponsible submission of our society to the abuses of a very toxic, greedy and unscrupulous conglomerate.

Mastodon has no privacy at all. Even if you host your own instance. People use Mastodon for freedom and to get away from manipulation by corporate social media.

I’m starting to think that Kurzgesagt is either paid media and/or propaganda. I really liked their well researched approach. But this one is straight out in your face. They outright deny the filter bubble that each one of us have experienced firsthand on corporate social media - and then blame you for the ill effects. Also, if you look at the imagery - the emoticons and especially the thumbs up symbol, they are trying to invoke memories of specific social media. It feels very much like they’re trying to garner sympathy for those antisocial-media.

BTW, this isn’t the first time their motives have been called into question. They have in the past, taken money from bigphrama to paint them as benevolent superheroes.

A vast majority of those millions are going to be for the identity rather than just the relevant data. Meanwhile, the genetic profiling companies, drug companies and insurance companies are sociopathic enough to lie through their noses about it.

I have a strong feeling that the data transfer has already happened through data brokers. They are just easing the public into acceptance.