The General Discussion Thread

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Originally posted by Surtur
You could be correct, it just does seem like the rules tend to get bent more for one side more than the other.

I agree people do need to fight together, but there really hasn't been much incentive from one side because they weren't the ones getting demonetized en masse.

But yes, Youtube probably is pandering. As does Twitter. And yet places like that have grown so powerful simply going "I'll just go elsewhere" isn't as feasible. I do think Google holds too much power.

Loads of food channels have been demonetised too, like a surprisingly high amount. Nobody can figure out exactly how their demonetisation system works. Sure, more conservative channels have been demonetised than liberal ones, but more fishing channels have been demonetised than car review ones. Does that show a slant towards favouring the car community over the fishing community? It's easy to say that it's political, but from all of the evidence... it's not political. They're just crazy and are demonetising everyone they can afford to. Money sucking mother****ers.

**** Google too though yeah, they're basically their own form of state surveillance at this point, whoring out people's privacy to governments. You can't trust Google, look how they operate in China. If, say, the US became a dictatorship suddenly, Google would be right behind them, probably looking to steal the NSA's contract.

Twitter is a platform that I will happily say has a huge Left-leaning slant, for the most part; but that seems to be mostly because the Left seems to love Twitter more than the Right, Trump not included.

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Originally posted by Scribble
Loads of food channels have been demonetised too, like a surprisingly high amount. Nobody can figure out exactly how their demonetisation system works. Sure, more conservative channels have been demonetised than liberal ones, but more fishing channels have been demonetised than car review ones. Does that show a slant towards favouring the car community over the fishing community? It's easy to say that it's political, but from all of the evidence... it's not political. They're just crazy and are demonetising everyone they can afford to. Money sucking mother****ers.

**** Google too though yeah, they're basically their own form of state surveillance at this point, whoring out people's privacy to governments. You can't trust Google, look how they operate in China. If, say, the US became a dictatorship suddenly, Google would be right behind them, probably looking to steal the NSA's contract.

Twitter is a platform that I will happily say has a huge Left-leaning slant, for the most part; but that seems to be mostly because the Left seems to love Twitter more than the Right, Trump not included.

I'm more informed than you might think, I do know about the other issues and I apologize if I gave off the impression it was nothing but politics at play for demonetizing. But no I agree, it goes way beyond that. You ever see the "Zeitgeist" documentary on netflix? It's interesting.

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Originally posted by mitchypoopoo
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Originally posted by Surtur
I'm more informed than you might think, I do know about the other issues and I apologize if I gave off the impression it was nothing but politics at play for demonetizing. But no I agree, it goes way beyond that. You ever see the "Zeitgeist" documentary on netflix? It's interesting.
Yeah, no worries, I'm probably not giving you enough credit. I think the main issue with the "it's politics" thing is that the examples are bad. PJW, Steven Crowder et al; conservative; demonetised. BuzzFeed, Kimmel et al; liberal; not demonetised. But I think the main difference there is clearly a corporate one, rather than a political one, because the 'liberal' channels are usually companies with lots of lawyers who would (and probably are) threatening YouTube to not demonetise them. Further evidence for this, h3h3, Anthony Fantano; liberal; demonetised. Anyway, you clearly get the point, I'm just reiterating shit at this stage awehuhs

I saw Zeitgeist ages ago though, a couple of years after it was released. I used to be a proper MANNN THE GOVERNMENT MANNN ILLUMINATI type when I was a teen so I sucked it all up, but when you actually look at most of the stuff they say in the 'documentary' (I really do hesitate to call it that), a lot of it is easily disproven and based on conjecture or bad research. The 9/11 bit is decent admittedly, but the whole anti-Christian thing gets to hilariously misinformed levels: the bit where they compare Ra the "Sun God" to Jesus the "Son of God" and try to make it seem like the fact that "Sun" and "Son" sound alike is somehow evidence for their point, disregarding the fact that... well, those words don't sound alike in the languages they would have spoken then. Man, they really embarrassed themselves at points in that film.

The second and third Zeitgeists are better though from what I remember

The third one goes all weird and envisions an automated socialist society where money isn't needed and nobody needs a job and it's good for the environment and stuff, it's kind of fascinating how far they delve into it but it's still kind of weird

There is that new show Jerry Seinfeld has called "Comedians in Cars drinking coffee" on netflix where he picks up a comedian and they...go drive and get coffee. So one episode has Michael Richards and at one point he brings up his racist incident and you can just tell Jerry feels awkward as hell.

Originally posted by Scribble
The third one goes all weird and envisions an automated socialist society where money isn't needed and nobody needs a job and it's good for the environment and stuff, it's kind of fascinating how far they delve into it but it's still kind of weird

Yeah, shit gets super weird towards the end.

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"Killer Women With Piers Morgan" is an actual show I just saw on my netflix feed. Why does this exist? Lol.

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