Comment by reaperducer

6 years ago

YouTube and, more specifically, it's advertisers do everything that you're accusing China of

YouTube and its advertisers aren't countries, and aren't engaged in recent, deadly military skirmishes with India.

> YouTube and its advertisers aren't countries, and aren't engaged in recent, deadly military skirmishes with India.

It might help to read the parent posts I was replying to, but we're talking about the effects of black box algorithms.

  • Your initial reply was to this

    >India is absolutely right in banning TikTok as it is a significant national securities threat.

    which is exactly why YouTube and China are not equivalent. You're talking about abstract black box algorithms; no one else was.

    • > As long as the platforms recommendation and ranking algos are a black box, there is no guarantee that China isn’t conducting misinformation campaigns via the platform.

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