Is YouTube Bad for Us?
Join Reason on YouTube and Facebook at 1 p.m. Eastern this Thursday for a discussion with director Alex Winter about his new documentary The YouTube Effect.
YouTube pulled in 2 million views a day following its launch in 2005. Today, it boasts more than 2.5 billion active monthly users and ranks second in global web traffic.
How has this massive video-sharing site affected us psychologically, culturally, and politically? These are the questions director Alex Winter explores in his new documentary, The YouTube Effect.
Watch the conversation between Winter and Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller on YouTube or Facebook this Thursday at 1 p.m. ET. They'll talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of YouTube; bipartisan calls for social media regulation; and what role YouTube may have played in the speech suppression campaign that occurred during the pandemic.
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what role YouTube may have played in the speech suppression campaign that occurred during the pandemic.
Might have played... might have played... way to be cautious in the face of overwhelming evidence.
It’s really funny watching a movie review channel covering a science fiction movie about a pandemic, and see the Covid misinformation warning pop up.
Removing the head or destroying the brain is more effective than masking, vaccines, and lockdowns at both mitigating the effects of COVID as well as mitigating the effects of mitigating COVID.
Fire is even better.
New question.
Is YouTube bad?
Alex Winter? No way!
Yes way, Ted.
Excellent!
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Just like streaming stations, and cable TV, and the broadcast television before that, one needs to curate their the content they watch.
Don't just mindlessly watch whatever is in front of you. Jeepers! YouTube does annoy me because it has incessant ads. And most content is trash. And the worst is its promotion of outright junk (fake cooking hacks, fake craft hacks, even fake science channels), some of which are objectively danger (one craft "hack" has killed fourteen people so far).
But how is this worse than all the shit that came before it on streaming, cable, and broadcast, and hell, even radio? Let's go back to the era of books. Are books bad for your too? (Don't answer that, as both the modern Left and modern Right want to cancel/ban books).
So curate your own damned eyeballs, and don't sit mindlessly in front of any video display. Problem solved.
Self-responsibility is so early 20th century.