Who is going to conduct the “investigation”?

Exactly. I think the bigger question here is whether hand-soap is sufficient to use as body wash? 🤔

Finally. It would have been nice to see these tactics denounced a decade or two ago, but better late than never, I guess. I’m glad to see it.

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“That is what everybody on Earth will know,” he said. “We’ll be gone, and it’ll be gone because of an advertiser boycott.”

Oh no, not at all, dear … everybody on Earth is perfectly aware that it is YOU who is killing the company. Twisting the narrative to feel better within yourself ain’t gonna change the fact. Why would any advertiser worth a damn, want to be associated with Stormfront 2.0?

Ren is a lyrical genius and I love his rapping style. Great post.

😮I looked this up! It was Fifth ave, but your point still stands. That’s so overt!
But I believe his cultists think they are the seven Trumpets in Revelation.

Nice.

We have this law in Australia and it never made sense to me. Noone is forcing these mega news corps (and Murdoch was a heavy pusher on these laws) to join Facebook and post their news there. Facebook et al drive traffic to the news sites, that otherwise would not have gone there. I think something could be said for preventing amp links, or some other option that ensures the viewer is directed to the true source for a story.

But this money doesn’t get divided up with smaller news creators either, so the MSM get even more money thrown their way, while smaller, better quality, media continues to struggle with YT demonitisation for covering topics MSM wont, and trying to finance their outlet thru Pateron. It’s a rort, not a true solution.

I even heard it in his voice.

I love my clickety clack. It’s so satisfying.

If you haven’t done so yet, I would recommend watching a documentary called “The Social Dilemma” if you are able to find a copy (it’s on Netflix).

I used to watch a lot of controversial/conspiracy/right-wing stuff because I wanted to keep tabs on their crazy. Eventually it all became way too toxic and bad for my mental health but I needed to fix my Youtube feed. There was lots of unsubscribing and channel blocking, but mostly watching of lots of trivial videos was what helped to clean it up.

I don’t think downvoting helps, but upvoting does. The algorithm knows people will engage more with content that makes them angry/afraid … don’t let it know when you feel that way.

Maybe scroll through a lot of shorts and then like and subscribe to videos & channels that are less innocuous, or completely trivial (like cooking tips, makeup & fashion for older women, celebrity gossip entertainment, comedy, feel good compilations etc). If you haven’t already, definitely subscribe to Daily Dose of Internet. Youtube also seems to like pushing Lo-fi, meditation, and binaural beats (especially at night) … sub a few of those.

Block those channels who have Rogan or Tate or similar in their video titles. Unsub from the likes of Dr John Campbell & Russell Brand. If she likes news and current affairs, try to find world news channels that are more highly regarded but less likely to be “ultra left” channels that she would recognise from her anti-browsing. Channels like Reuters, AFP, or maybe news stations from other countries (like ABC news in Australia, or CBC and Global News in Canada). Block “Rebel News” and unsub from “News Nation”, or anyone else that pushes clickbait headlines. Swap her subscription from “Sky News Australia” (block) to simply “Sky News” - The Australian one is made by NewsCorp (Murdoch) and targets the American right-wing audience, while the other is a legitimate UK news channel which is not owned by Murdoch - she wont notice the subtle difference in the logos, but the content will be dramatically different.

Also, I would recommend a channel called The Why Files … he does videos on conspiracies, lays out all the conspiracy evidence, and then also lays out any debunking facts. He treats the subjects seriously, so watchers don’t feel stupid for believing something, but then does a great job of presenting the debunking facts as well, so viewers get a really balanced presentation about controversial topics.

I hope this is helpful. Good luck.

P.S. If you haven’t done so yet, I would recommend watching a documentary called “The Social Dilemma” if you are able to find a copy (it’s on Netflix).

I thought the algorithm responds to downvotes with more of the same content because negativity drives engagement. I very rarely downvote because I don’t want YT to know what I don’t like. I do however tell it to completely block rage-bait channels. This works for my home feed but not in trending.

I think what you are looking for is kinda related to street epistemology.

Adding the /s is like saying “I just told a joke.” … with sarcasm, well it’s kinda like saying the punchline.

I’m also noticing a satisfying lack of the /s tag.

Yes, that was my take too. I wish Australia would start moving on some of these sort of laws already. We still have very lax data privacy/retention laws and such … our pollies definitely ain’t thinking about protecting the public from AI chat bots!

Indeed, I was just engaged in a similar discussion on another thread, and pointed out the retro feel of discovering a new, blossoming internet community - and the fact that there are seemingly real people behind the posts here. At the moment, I think that all that’s protecting us is that we are not yet on the radar of conversational bots, nor big enough to be of interest YET. I do think the decentralised platform is a very clever idea for social networking, and yes, I hope the devs have some ideas to combat the inevitable incoming AIs.

I would think there’s got to be some sort of spam protection operating, at the very least.