"In preparation for the 2018 mid-term elections Silicon Valley platforms partnered with corporate and government funded “independent groups” to appoint themselves arbiters of truth and fact for their users “protection” and “safety” against “misinformation”, “harmful content” and “hate speech”. YouTube’s role was to continue their purges and chilling of speech and to dig its own grave by altering its search engine to only show “authoritative sources” - content that you once went to YouTube to escape. Overnight they shut down the biggest option for alternative and thoughtful viewpoints. If you tried to search for anything remotely political you were met with pages of the uniform drone of corporate nightly news drivel to keep you from devious wrong think."
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/the-suicide-of-youtube
"In preparation for the 2018 mid-term elections Silicon Valley platforms partnered with corporate and government funded “independent groups” to appoint themselves arbiters of truth and fact for their users “protection” and “safety” against “misinformation”, “harmful content” and “hate speech”. YouTube’s role was to continue their purges and chilling of speech and to dig its own grave by altering its search engine to only show “authoritative sources” - content that you once went to YouTube to escape. Overnight they shut down the biggest option for alternative and thoughtful viewpoints. If you tried to search for anything remotely political you were met with pages of the uniform drone of corporate nightly news drivel to keep you from devious wrong think."
https://thegoodcitizen.substack.com/p/the-suicide-of-youtube
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