Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Stossel: Does Silicon Valley manipulate users?" video.

@ilovecoffee7623 I had heard surface level criticisms of how wikipedia is managed and it seems worse than I thought. Thank you for sharing.
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@Hans "Actually the irony of libertarians finding out that capitalism doesn't work" - it's working perfectly. Look at the dislikes on YouTube rewind. People are tired of google and facebook. Alphabet and Zucc have committed the massive blunder of allowing us to break free from mainstream media and are now trying to force people back into the mainstream... People are getting ready to jump ship.
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Someone tell the yellow vests that they should just move. Why would they stay in France and complain? HMMMM....
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People can still demand a better product from corporations. If they want to sell our information then they have to attract customers and to do that their service has to be good. Doesn't duckduckgo merely use Yahoo results? I thought the point of duckduckgo was privacy.
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@ilovecoffee7623 "they are doing pretty good given that they dominate the market" - same could be said about CNN in the late 90's. "it is unrealistic to expect that a privately owned website company would be neutral and unbiased instead of pursuing its own interests like everybody else" - well, duh. And the consumer keeps them in check. Look at the consumer response to Ghostbusters 2016, the Star Wars franchise, Battlefield V, etc. If your pursuit of your own interests conflicts with the interests of the consumers you get slapped by the market. "The only thing Google cares regarding its users is to collect data about their search patterns so they can use that info for advertizing purposes." - you should look up how many different ways Google was a contractor for the Pentagon and intelligence agencies.
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@ilovecoffee7623 I'm not talking about value. I am saying that if in the late 90's I told you some random Swedish guy could draw a bigger audience than CNN you'd have thought I was insane. Right now it seems impossible for people to ever leave YouTube. Just like it probably seemed impossible to leave MySpace at one point. "trasnsparency is the key" - and google holds all the cards. The more they assure us that they're not spying the more I think they are lying to be because Google has been caught lying multiple times about the data they store and to this day they are still using "dark patterns" to keep tabs on you even after you asked for them to stop. "would ease their fears and hysteria" - too late. Have you noticed how YouTube runs their business? People need Patreon, sponsorships and merch sales to get a return on their channel because YouTube is pretty much taking the ad revenue for itself at this point - the review process to get monetization is so long people get most of the views on a video before it receives monetization status. The false copyright striking and reporting is rampant, the strikes system does not give you time to correct what you are doing, you could receive 3 strikes in a row from videos you uploaded a year ago in the same afternoon. They just recently deleted all the annotations which means that tons of videos that needed the annotations to update/correct information will stay up. This place is terrible for content creators and the only reason people aren't leaving in a mass exodus is the fact that YouTube is a "homepage" for videos so that's where the audience is.
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@ilovecoffee7623 the problem is that they may have actually tanked their chances of making money off YouTube by pissing off the content creators who actually draw an audience, the same audience that can't stand the corporate bullshit that they showcased on Rewind. >"the general population is at large liberal oriented" The YouTube community isn't the "general population" and this is a huge problem. The general population watches fail videos and looks up tutorials, music videos, whatever and then go do something else. In fact they can spend hours on youtube but not even leave a marker of engagement. The freaking "formula" for the past 2-3 years has been 10-13 min videos that "normies", so to speak, won't have the patience to watch. Why? Because a content creator proving to the algorithm that he creates content that engages people for that long is a pretty good marking of quality but at the same time it's difficult to peddle 15 minute videos about the history of LED printers or some other hyperfocused topic to the general population. >"they do not want to see what they consider to be ''hateful'' content, so YouTube is acting on that" And they're massively failing at that. Not only have they actually hit left-oriented channels too, but apolitical channels as well. Unless YouTube is planning to make all their money from music videos and makeup tutorials, driving off a massive community is completely unprofitable. >"anti-Bulgarian videos" I wasn't even aware there was such a "side" of YouTube. >"don't even get the started of Wikipedia" I have heard of some controversies, are you talking about editing wars where people kept taking down information?
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@Hans "USA, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand" huehuehue countries with massive governmental spending and taxation are libertarian top lel
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