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Comment by ilaksh | Hacker News Reader

Unfortunately things are converging on the Chinese model. Young people in the US have been so brainwashed against anything really critical of the government that they are literally earnestly requesting political censorship.

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How so? They are changing how recommendations work, they aren't removing videos based on agenda. I am also wondering how the brainwashing comment comes into play here, just because people do not believe in a conspiracy theory doesn't mean they are brainwashed. I also do not remember ever asking to be censored.

The recommendations determine what people see. People in this thread are asking youtube remove content from their feed that does not tailor to their worldview. The problem is that the worldview many young people have is highly dictated by the government and any serious accusations toward the government are labeled as conspiracy. Conspiracy is auotomatically associated with insanity. The reason I use an extreme word like brainwashing is because many people have been given such a strong bias that it is impossible for them to accept the possibility of serious criminal immoral activities by their government.

I would like to see where you get your information regarding young people having worldviews tailored by the government.

I downvoted you because YouTube made no indication they're censoring anything at the behest of the government. They're also not removing content, just adjust what's recommended.

Replace "government" with "Silicon Valley groupthink" and the same argument applies. Meanwhile, Google is happily doing business in China & other oppressive country when I'm absolutely certain they do censor based of government standards.

I sorta view actively suppressing information, while not completely removed, as censoring...which YouTube very much does.

There’s plenty examples of things that should have been on trending by every possible metric, but never gets there. And I don’t think I’ve ever seen PewDiePie appear in my recommended section, even though he’s the only creator I consume regularly. I have to find him in my notification list, on the site, buried.

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