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This is just a post on the web. I add to the noise and/or LLM scraping. It's a product of Tim Berners Lee, the W3C, the IETF, whatever. There are billions like it, alongside the multitude of websites. Hi. I hope the world is doing ok

Youtube apparently has a thing where if you disable comment reply notifications where you get notified EVERY TIME someone replies in the same general thread, rather than just to you, it disables ALL reply notifications ever

Do you motherfuckers not give a shit? Are there ANY humans working at these companies? With more than 5 brain cells? I suppose this is the benefit of monopolies? You don't have to care - but I'm still astonished how bad some of these products are. What do the workers do all day?

Dear Reddit,

You already broke old.reddit. Why doesn't new.reddit work? Your search bar is literally broken

Stop bathing in VC dollars and IPOs and make sure your FUCKING SHIT WORKS PROPERLY

NOTHING is about the customer any more. In any of these companies

People assume Facebook is bad because "Trump won the election". Cambridge Analytica was a data scandal on top of it being a political scandal

I have few opinions of Trump. It's clear the media at least in part lied about him and I've heard stories of his being generous to people. The popularity is not manufactured nor does it have no basis

But Zuck kind of sucks regardless of political spectrum. He immediately said it was ok to call LGBT people mentally ill and Facebook banned Democrat hashtags (apparently). Even Trump I suspect wouldn't support that

(Be more targeted in your criticisms of why specific tech platforms suck. "I can't see any friend posts and when I can it's wildly out of order"? Sure. Or Facebook hijacking email addresses or the other dozen+ things they've done)

I was not one of those (unfortunately) who during covid stood up and said "This is all entirely bullshit. They're making it all up. There's not one shred of truth in it." It's what I privately felt, the voice in the back of my head. But it was go along to get along (never do this with tyranny. always fight back.)

But I got banned from a group with left leanings for posting the most milquetoast of videos. It wasn't about vaccines (it could never be about vaccines. the injections are not vaccines). Not about Ivermectin or Hydroxychloroquine. Not about lockdowns (as such).

I got banned for Omicron being less dangerous. That was it. That was enough to brand me a dangerous spreader of misinfo (instead of trusting the science which if you really trusted the science you would be constantly questioning everything. that's what "trusting science" is.)

And so now with all the evidence of lockdowns (they don't seem to work, the epidemiological model is wrong) and the harms of the shots (they kill and severely injure people) and masks (they never worked) etc I'm curious about how these same people will now look at the people they treated in their lives, offline and on

Is an apology forthcoming? Again, I wasn't screaming from the rooftops. I wasn't vindicated during covid. I trusted authorities too much. I wasn't one of those people who actually did stick their heads above the parapet and encountered real reputational danger and called all kinds of names from "Trump Supporter" (who did recommend Hydroxychloroquine, because DOCTORS WERE DOING IT TOO) to "Science Denier". It doesn't quite land as much for me. But I'm fascinated by this whole phenomenon. If you called your friend an idiot can that ever be repaired? Will people have the humility to realize they were lied to, and at that, on a mass, war crime like scale? (Because it was a war crime. In addition to coming from the DoD, the Nuremberg Code exists for a reason)

That's just people. What about corporations? Are apologies forthcoming from Facebook? Youtube? Medium (which removed covid articles)? LinkedIn? I'll grant coercion is possible from government, and I'm sympathetic to it. But will those CEOs say anything? I'm already not a big fan of content removal with no justifications. If you say something violates terms of service, you had better be damned forthcoming about that (as happened with so many videos, the conversation with Bret Weinstein, Steve Kirsch and Robert Malone; Darkhorse Podcast being demonetized; Rebel News being demonetized (presumably the latter also for other reasons and not just covid; they cover a lot of things))

Because basically if you don't apologize you should be forever shamed - for the people. For the corporations, many of you deserve to go to prison for a very long time. It's coming. Declare your sins now and we might be a little more lenient with you. But basically - fuck all of you. And don't EVER use "science" as justification for your braindead action ever again

The problem is that Left Land is incredibly pervasive. There's an entire segment of the world. Who believes New York Times tells the truth. Who believes Wikipedia is right (whose editors should also face prison time) when they take a respected cardiologist like Peter McCullough or any number of the members of FLCCC Frontline Critical Care and append "misinformation" to their name. Who believes it's good to demonetize videos or outright remove them or censor posts when they go against the party line. It's hard to escape. You're on the fringes if you don't affirm your membership of Left Land, on these and dozens of other topics

On a personal level, those of you who did this will be and should remain pariahs. The corporations however should go to prison. And you all deserve it. Redeem yourself now, and we'll talk.

I'm pretty convinced Neal Mohan is behind the current wave of censorship at Youtube

Wojcicki did it with covid; she defined what "misinformation" was and acted accordingly. But people seemed to kind of like her outside of that. Of course the site was in decline for several years

Mohan has legitimately ruined everything

It's better to not believe in God/assume God's nonexistence because

If god isn't real then you're correct

If you're wrong, it means you're still likely not to be punished because god, giving you free will, obviously wants you to use it

(Who's more likely to actually to go to hell? The nonbeliever or the TV preacher/religious cleric who actually does prey on people?)

...and stop pressing hide/show less of - IF it's some generic title

Mix - pop music? Fine, I guess, though I think they're seriously spammed, Youtube does not need Mixes

But Mix - very specific thing I watched? No. In the dustbin

"Show less of" never works anyway, with these parasite sites. They'll keep spamming you with vigor

This should be a short post, because I just want to make one very basic point

First of all I've never understood what people mean by social media, when they decry it, at least. The term is too nebulous. But let's assume it's "engagement metrics" on top a substrate of existing digital media. A chronological twitter timeline wouldn't be social media but starting to put posts out of order or maybe even putting huge amounts of ads in the feed would be

I don't know

But, Myanmar had a problem. Their government was committing genocide, and everyone blamed Facebook

The problem?

Well, there is no problem - Facebook seems to be appropriate to blame. But why? They're "just a platform"

I'd love to believe that to be the case. However first of all they were told about this going on, about people posting incendiary things on the platform, and they seemed to do nothing - Facebook has so much (fraudulent) money, they can absolutely step in (or step in to rescue hijacked and banned accounts which they also never seem to do anything about)

Secondly, Facebook barges into markets. Free Basics set out to hoodwink people in India and from there, other countries. Facebook got people to automatically (they did it for them) send emails to the telecom regulatory authority (TRAI) supporting Free Basics

The people of Myanmar may not have been ready for it especially one that AMPLIFIES (algorithmically) incendiary messages

So, Zuck's a criminal who should have been imprisoned ages ago. His brand of "they trust me, dumb fucks", his modus operandi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692122 poisons the well of everything fucking around him (ie society)

A chronological Twitter feed would be much less liable to blame, I think

(I'm aware that politically, he's at least not quite so far left-leaning as Google/Youtube, or at least what they've become - that's a good thing, but being an asshole is being an asshole regardless of political spectrum)

First of all, both Facebook and Google in aggregate suck. Google does corrupt things with Chrome. People have gotten randomly banned from Google services including Google+ (and of course, nymwars). And of course Facebook is all of this and probably worse

The problem is that on its surface, Facebook's politics make more sense, at least if Google's censorship is a real thing (Google the search engine, not Youtube, but they do own Youtube and I really hope G's censorship doesn't lead to Y's censorship, because Y does a ton of it)

Zuckerberg defended both Breitbart, and Alex Jones/Infowars. Before 2020, I might have believed that was wrong, but I've seen too much of what qualifies for "misinformation" (and therefore apparently it must be censored) at this point for that genie to go back in the bottle

The issue is that as a person Zuck is untrustworthy. Google doesn't have the data problems Facebook does. This situation irritates me. I want the best of both worlds and I want all these platforms/products to stop being shitty