For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Lauren Weinstein <lauren () vortex com>
> Date: August 3, 2017 at 6:04:28 PM EDT
> To: nnsquad () nnsquad org
> Subject: [ NNSquad ] For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio
>
>
> For the New Far Right, YouTube Has Become the New Talk Radio
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/magazine/for-the-new-far-right-youtube-has-become-the-new-talk-radio.html
>
>      In response videos, YouTube and its owner, Google, were cast
>    as an oppressive establishment forcing left-wing politics into
>    users' feeds.  Black Pigeon Speaks published his own video,
>    "#CreatorsForChange -- YouTube Propaganda Gets REKT -- Yet
>    Again," in which he quickly segued from the platform's
>    campaign to a brazen claim that "diversity always leads to
>    fractured societies that always break down." The comments on
>    YouTube's original video introducing the program were rapidly
>    flooded with bile. "Meet the rainbow coalition of YouTubers
>    who hate white people!" read one top-voted comment. "I never
>    hated diversity until media began to forcefully push it down
>    my throat," read another.
>
> - - -
>
> My personal opinion: Toss these vile racists off of YouTube entirely.
> Stop permitting them to leverage our platforms to spread hate. Let
> them build their own social media services (and their own Internet,
> for that matter). Stuff them back into their cages where they were
> before our technology gave these vile sociopaths a giant megaphone.
>
> --Lauren--
> Lauren Weinstein (lauren () vortex com): 



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