Is YouTube corrupt and need an alternative?

Question

I've heard more than once, it's search algorithms become politicised. In this case, controlled by the medical establishment.

ObscuredBeyond · Accepted Answer

If  Rumble  had an equivalent blogging service to compete with Blogger/Blogspot, I'd consider switching to it. Rumble is the place for free speech video right now. YouTube is disastrously corrupt in comparison. However, to be fair, YouTube only murders your persona outright if you mention Gray Goo Cyborg Venom, Died Suddenly, spike proteins, or anything like that which implicates any part of Big Pharma or the companies they've bought and paid for as being involved in ANY sort of criminal conspiracy - no matter how solid the evidence. Or, if you get too many copyright strikes. Or... if you're a certain Asian couple they don't like. Or if you're Donald Trump. Because Tide Pods. There are still PLENTY of other topics you can discuss, and never get more than maybe a warning or your content muted or deleted, at worst. And even then, you usually get to appeal your case, and get reasonable feedback. So as corrupt as it is, YouTube is still one of the fairest platforms out there. And will actually take the time most of the time to explain exactly what they mean when they think you've "violated" their "terms." The claim could be absurd, but at least they'll cite a statute, so you can make a reasonable appeal. Facebook  had to have a foreign committee step in to only sometimes allow for a meaningful appeals process, after Facebook itself elected to no longer believe in appeals. If the pink hair brigade decides they don't want you to say something, even if their citation of a statute is clear yet makes zero sense, then they are of the opinion that you don't get to explain to them how they failed to understand the rules themselves, or how they're playing fast and loose with their own definitions. Instagram  will likewise delete content and blow smoke at you, and not always explain what was so wrong. And forget about appealing the decision! MeWe  is no better, with its founders pretending to care about greater protection of free speech out of one hand, then ban you for unspecified "hate content" out of the other, without being able to explain how anything you ever said was "hateful." TikTok  will also often remove content, threaten to ban you, and if you ask what was so wrong, and they can't tell you without indicting themselves for discrimination, their response will be basically: "Trust me, bro!" DeviantArt  will delete content, and refuse to explain why. Or sometimes, delete an entire account and ban it, and offer no explanation of why. X  will ban for random reasons, often with no explanation.  Twitter  pre-Musk would ban for very arbitrary reasons, and was littered with double standards and selective enforcement, all based on what the Tide Zombies wanted to hear, to make it their echo chamber. (I never got over the fact that they banned me for saying Jimmy Carter was a bad president!) Even  TVTropes  will ban users for unspecified reasons, then get snotty about why their decisions are never wrong. Especially if you point to evidence that some narrative their commentators wanted to push is flat-out the opposite of reality; but in a way that could affect the site's ESG score (like bashing the film  Boys Beware , without doing any homework on the producers' claims and motives, just assuming they acted on fear and hysteria from out of thin air.) Wikipedia  will threaten to ban you for  removing biased language  from articles about doctors who were murdered while researching possible links of certain preservatives in certain vaccines to the rise in autism. Because if the Zionist Mafia wants you to hate on that doctor, and all they have is name-calling, then you're not allowed to remove the name-calling, nor ensure both sides of the case are fairly represented. Jimbo Wales is a communist dirtbag. Fandom  will ban you for refusing to let your wiki be hijacked to pander to sexual anarcho-tyranny causes that have nothing to do with the wiki's main focus for which you founded it.  Because  how dare you  find it  objectionable  that your seashell research repository be commandeered and even vandalized to promote men who commit first degree corruption of minors with illegal porn in the street-while dancing lewdly half-naked! Istophobe! Your non-conformity will cost them ESG score! Also, they'll stalk you offsite. They'll spy on you, and ban you if you are discovered to have any wiki service except for theirs, even if you never promoted the other one on their service, and never spoke ill of them on the other one! And they'll also steal your photos and your SEO! So compared to all those, YouTube doesn't seem so bad. But if all you want is to post truthful videos without being mercilessly canceled, Rumble is better.

Unit1 · Accepted Answer

Yeah.

To some degree at least.

See youtube records your search history and general interests so that it will show you more relevant content.

However there is also the tendency to "suppress" other content makers or "alternative news", that you'd find if you did some deeper digging, which most people won't bother to do anyway.

Youtube is ultimately owned by Google and so Google decides pretty much what people inside certain regions (or their public IP addresses being identified with a certain region) get suggested.

Google exercises it's powers to steer its users towards information, that fits more or less their own agenda be it searching for something online or looking for videos or whatever.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

i cannot stand youtube anymore. unfortunately there's just not that great of an alternative yet. yes i know about rumble. it's meh...

i hate all of the ad's. i hate that they increased the price of the youtube premium subscription for no reason. and it's even more if you went through apple (that's a whole other issue). stuff like that... youtube sucks.

ScisorsAndRaisins · Answer

When searching on YouTube, use duckduckgo. com You will find stuff they've hidden from their leftist search engine.

jshm2 · Answer

You heard wrong, then.

Every business has terms and conditions to be adhered to by the user and the company. Too many dipshits think they are "exceptions," when they are not. If you go into a store and start being abusive to the staff, of course they can kick you out and not serve you again, even.

Similarly, doesn't matter if it's "don't wear red when on the golf course" to "don't post medical shit you are not qualified to talk about, on our platform" If you've made your account and signed on, then you've accepted their rules.

You cannot claim you "didn't know" when you were the one who lied that you accepted the terms and conditions.

Youtube is fucking global, and as a result has to adhere to many different countries laws and regulations. It doesn't NEED the drama of shtilarks who want to be "anti-establishment" .

Sonorous · Answer

Everything made by man needs competition. We tend to not be as fair when the power dynamic always shifts in our favor.

normalice · Answer

Well if you heard it more than once it must be true...

SPIRIT208 · Answer

I just watch memes and history stuff on it, so I think it’s alr

exitseven · Answer

I just use You Tube for music and DIY videos.

AngryCarl2 · Answer

I' a vocal critic of YouTube but how is medicine political?

DJB72 · Answer

Rumble is a good alternative

QuietRunner · Answer

Rumble is good

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