Comment Re:Instagram needs re-design (Score 1) 143
Endorse ? Did you just use the word "Endorse"
Yes, look it's right there.
They are not endorsing anything.
They are recommending I watch something I never asked to see, they are endorsing those clips.
No, what you're suggesting is censorship.
I'm not, what I wrote should be clear: If you are providing search results, what turns up should be on the person searching. When you recommend something, you wear that recommendation. That's not about censorship, it's about responsibility. I know a terribly old-fashioned concept. Ever heard of it?
If I'm interested in hearing commentators talk about how Jussie Smollett might have staged a hoax, I don't want Youtube to start being creative and suggest to me CNN panels about how we need to believe Jussie and that this attack is a result of the President's rethoric.
Yes, You should be able to look for what you want to see, using some relatively transparent search algorithm. Not have things thrust in your face based on what the social media corporation (via whichever opaque algorithm they decide on or otherwise) thinks you should watch without owing up to it. But maybe this isn't obvious to you because the algorithms are already delivering the not-so-suppressed voices you want to hear?
Youtube's job is not to "guide my opinion" towards their selected narrative.
They already do, you may have noticed the recommend videos? The question is whether they will be made to take responsibility for guiding your opinion.
To adopt AC's metaphor from below, I'm not, as AC believed advocating these publishers saying "we just removed card from the catalog and stored book behind shelf of other books." I'm advocating making it very easy to find the card in the catalog you want to find. It's your responsibility what you look for.
If however the librarian picks a book off of the shelf slaps it on the desk in front of you and tells you "you really should read this," the librarian is vouching for the book.
If we did things your way, whate'd all be Flat Earthers
Obviously not. And wasn't there recently a study that showed that the rise in flat earth believers is primarily due to YouTube's recommendation algorithm? Ergo, if these algorithms are working as designed, they need a redesign.