• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Be careful. YouTube likes to show people increasingly insane right wing propaganda. It starts with “huh those are some interesting ideas” and before you know it you’ll be screaming about vaccines and praying for Trump to make a comeback.

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      1 year ago

      It starts with “huh those are some interesting ideas” and before you know it you’ll be screaming about vaccines and praying for Trump to make a comeback.

      Oh, please, stop. Telling people not to expose themselves to certain bits of information or perspectives is just another form of bigotry. I read two of Ayn Rand’s books, because her ideas were new and fascinating to me. That didn’t turn me into a libertarian or stop me from seeing the flaws in her ideology. But I am now more educated and less likely to be influenced by libertarian arguments as a result.

      Try having discussions with people who you feel have the wrong ideas about things rather than telling them to avoid “wrongthinkers” altogether.

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        1 year ago

        Thats not what I was suggesting at all. I said that YouTube’s algorithm will start flooding your feed with progressively more extreme and misinformative content.

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          1 year ago

          I said that YouTube’s algorithm will start flooding your feed with progressively more extreme and misinformative content.

          That is absolutely not what you wrote and I don’t believe it’s what you meant either.