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[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There are tons of highly educational YouTube channels, and traditional media has completely abandoned that kind of content. The average YouTube video has more educational content than "The Learning Channel." And you are more likely to get accurate information about history than "The History Channel"

This is a boomer take.

[–] isles@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What you say is true, but also ignores the alt-right pipelining that YouTube and others are seemingly complicit in, or at the very least is the result of perverse incentives.

And I'll say the exact same thing about TikTok. It's serving as primary sources for many problems around the world, it's giving more broad and informed, collegiate level discussions of the world, and it's full of brainrotting limbic hijacking. All true and I don't think any generation is fully equipped to deal it.

We can also see historically that banning a "vice" has never effectively removed the vice from society.

[–] leftytighty@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 day ago

Yes the acquiescence of all editorial and publishing decisions by these tech companies to "the algorithm" (which somehow absolves them of responsibility) is the main culprit there.

These platforms are more like radio infrastructure or TV infrastructure than any particular channel, and for the most part anything they specifically promote and fund doesn't tend to be that alt right content which is completely algorithm driven and ad/sponsor/dark money supported.

We need to employ nuance when discussing these platforms.