• Dragonstaff@leminal.space
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    2 days ago

    This is odd to say when the YouTube algorithm has been proven to push right wing propaganda.

    The concept of “conspiracies” is a bit off. It’s not a “conspiracy” when Bezos kills the Washington Post’s endorsement of Harris, or fires journalists who criticize him. YouTube doesn’t need to remove a video if the algorithm never shows it to anybody.

    It is kinda crazy to imagine a secret cabal of rich people who surreptitiously run the world, rather than the well known cabal of rich people who openly run the world.

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      2 days ago

      Meh, I kinda get it. Like who has more power, Trump or the Walton family? The latter is fairly in the background. Sachlers were (and are) getting away with the opiate epidemic.

      Sure there is a level, where it’s only seeing shadow men, but Bill Gates, Musk or Bezos as a final boss seems anticlimatic. I do subscribe to the deep state idea, but I see it more like powerful people trying to keep their power, but it’s more of a random walk than an orchestrated psyops.

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      2 days ago

      It is kinda crazy to imagine a secret cabal of rich people who surreptitiously run the world, rather than the well known cabal of rich people who openly run the world.

      The cabal of rich people who run the world were a hell of a lot less open about it before tech billionaires came onto the stage.

      Do we actually know the rich billionaires running the world, or do we just know the owners of Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter and Facebook? (And then Warren Buffet is there too)

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      2 days ago

      This is odd to say when the YouTube algorithm has been proven to push right wing propaganda.

      This is not a conspiracy. The conspiracy is saying YouTube does this because they are right wing company.

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        YouTube pushes right wing content because right wing goals benefit their owners. I don’t know how you define “right wing company”, but what else would you call a company that promotes fascists and strictly polices leftists?

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          20 hours ago

          but what else would you call a company that promotes fascists and strictly polices leftists

          That last part is relevant, because thats not what YouTube does and what makes it a conspiracy