These content reviewers are also volunteering their time to protect Google from refunding advertiser spend, as advertisers can claim that suddenly not all publicity is good publicity. YouTube’s system broken on so many layers.
It might seem like these speech police are just tools of the corporations, but they actually have the power to at least demonetize anything they dislike when they can’t notch another censoring under their belts.
On public policy: I see decentralization having the greatest impact in everyone’s lives in the information space more so than money. There’s no good reason to concentrate content into the hands of corporations, and work on socially oriented protocols that are platform agnostic is going to be necessary for democracy to survive. Such a family of protocols would likely improve targeted ads, and offer the potential to better compensate the content creator.
Never forget these are just ad agencies masquerading as tech companies at this point.
It's outrageous that corporate functionaries at Google get to censor what had previously been the nationwide version of public access TV. But these would-be oligarchs, and the authoritarian apparatchiks in their employ, no longer trust the general public to express itself.
These content reviewers are also volunteering their time to protect Google from refunding advertiser spend, as advertisers can claim that suddenly not all publicity is good publicity. YouTube’s system broken on so many layers.
It might seem like these speech police are just tools of the corporations, but they actually have the power to at least demonetize anything they dislike when they can’t notch another censoring under their belts.
On public policy: I see decentralization having the greatest impact in everyone’s lives in the information space more so than money. There’s no good reason to concentrate content into the hands of corporations, and work on socially oriented protocols that are platform agnostic is going to be necessary for democracy to survive. Such a family of protocols would likely improve targeted ads, and offer the potential to better compensate the content creator.
Never forget these are just ad agencies masquerading as tech companies at this point.
It's outrageous that corporate functionaries at Google get to censor what had previously been the nationwide version of public access TV. But these would-be oligarchs, and the authoritarian apparatchiks in their employ, no longer trust the general public to express itself.