Originally published at: ‘No Place for Science Denial’: Google, YouTube Ban Monetization of Climate Misinformation
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Boobtube and Gaggle need to be banned,
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This is disturbing on many levels. The idea that Google/YouTube claim to be qualified to tell the difference between valid and invalid science makes me really nervous. I see a really slippery slope here, when a private corporation can decide what is or is not fit to allow people to view. An example of the overreach these policies entail is the banning from these platforms of anyone who differs from the “accepted” scientific dogma of the moment, like the work of Josiah Zayner, who has done Covid research not sanctioned by the scientific establishment, which has also been banned from these platforms.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
I probably should add that I have no use for the folks denying climate science, who are often paid and/or influenced by the folks profiting off of spewing carbon into the atmosphere. But I can’t overlook the fact that this type of corporate censorship sets a dangerous precedent.
Does this also mean Google with stop the solicitation via E-mails from trump on a twice-a-day basis?
And does this mean the propaganda continues as it is de-monetized.?
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Rep Ilhan Omar was so right," It’s all about the Benjamins."
I had to ban google and you tube, as it’s a very strange world now. We are regressing back to the time of the Civil War where even the North made tons of money during the Civil War by getting product from the South.It seems that, once again, neither the People nor the planet matter much. : (
With the “60 Minutes” bombshell Sunday night and congressional testimony this week, there’s immense pressure on social media platforms right now. Looks like they’re trying to clean up their acts.
If misinformation is no longer allowed on YouTube, an awful lot of content will need to be removed!
Steve Woodward - this isn’t the platform operators deciding what we can and can’t see, it’s advertisers deciding they don’t want to fund lies.
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Well, actually, Vista, it is exactly “platform operators deciding what we can and cannot see” on their platforms, and I find it difficult to believe that BP and Exxon Mobile “don’t want to fund lies.”
They’re just saying they won’t provide ad revenue. They are not saying they won’t allow people to view.
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The entire model of “monetization” based on ad revenue needs to be scrapped. These platforms should be run as public utilities, not as profit-seeking corporations.
And there should be no data-mining, no selling or “monetization” of personal data or of meta-data. Get the colonizing profiteers out of social media, out of all media, out of the economy.
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But when you demonetize the uploader, it has the same effect as removing the upload, since many will self-censor.
We should not be subjected to lifelong endless looting-class propaganda, simply for communicating amongst ourselves. Social media should be social, not commercial.
Take away the drive to extract profit from the platform. Socialize it. Stop all paid advertisements. Run it as a public utility. That’s what a progressive analysis would conclude.
Actually it’s rather simple. Was there an ice age with huge mile thick glaciers covering North America and Europe? If so, where did all the ice go? Why, it must have melted.
Unless you believe that planet earth is only a few thousand years old, like it says in the Bible. But then, people dreaming stories up around a campfire, thousands of years ago, has probably more to do with entertainment than science.