Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.

Protests on the social platform have entered a new phase, with users shirking the platform’s NSFW content rules en masse. The development has some media buyers on high alert, experts say.

  • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    And obviously you’re deincentivising the creator from making more content in that certain style at least. Steering the speech to certain direction.

    • AshDene@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      Youtube is allowed to encourage you to say things. That’s guaranteed by the free speech rights of the people that make up youtube.

      • GunnarRunnar@kbin.social
        1·
        1 year ago

        No one’s saying they aren’t. Doesn’t mean I have to like it either. Or that their decisions can’t be criticized.

        • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
          1·
          1 year ago

          Content creation.

          If YouTube shuts down indefinitely in a couple hours without warning; do you believe that you’ve lost the right of speech?!?!

            • Frog-Brawler@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year ago

              JFC… are you this daft or just trolling? I’ll map out this entire conversation because you’re not able to keep up with your own BS and then I’m done with you.

              This started because you made a claim that YouTube demonetizing things = “companies fiddling with speech.”

              Then, before I ever responded to you, the next comment that you made was “Free speech usually means that you have freedom to express yourself, not that you’re speaking for no pay lol.”

              So it started off sounding like you were equating demonetization with a lack of free speech. I replied, _“To be honest, I’m not sure why YouTube was brought into a conversation about free speech. YouTube is not a free speech platform; thus, demonetization of someone on YouTube’s platform has nothing at all to do with free speech.”

              Then you wanted to move the goalposts, so you said, “This conversation wasn’t about free speech, it was about companies fiddling with speech.” as you removed the word “free.” You have the ability to NOT post on YouTube. YouTube CANNOT “fiddle with speech” if you do not participate in YouTube. Anything you put on there is content that they own. If somehow, some employee of YouTube starts following you around and setting off a bullhorn anytime you start to talk, I’ll agree, then they’re “fiddling with speech.” If some employee of YouTube (Alphabet), starts coming on to Kbin or Lemmy, and removing your comments from here, then I’ll agree with you in that scenario too. When an employee of YouTube is removing comments or not promoting comments that they don’t like, that’s not a speech issue; it’s content moderation.