YouTube Remark
I confess my sense of honesty is offended by seeing these notices plastered all over conservative podcasts on YouTube by our Tech Overlords.
U.S. elections: The AP has called the Presidential race for Joe Biden. See more on Google.
Robust safeguards help ensure the integrity of elections and results. Learn more
The first statement is true but meaningless.
A leftwing publicity outlet predicts the outcome of a hotly contested election at a point in time when not a single state has been certified yet; there are still votes being counted; . Mandatory recounts are needed in some jurisdictions, and recounts are being called for in others. Then there are ten to twelve ongoing legal challenges… while it is technically true that a group of private citizens have voiced their opinion about a future event, it has no legal meaning.
It does have a meaning, of course. It is meant to dispirit the conservatives into yielding.
More to the point, YouTube has no business intruding such notices into videos their customers watch, any more than we ask the mailman his opinion of postcards we receive or the switchboard girl her comment on our phone conversations.
The second statement is false. This election has had the fewest safeguards of any election in living memory in this nation, obviously so and absurdly so.
I have the habit of clicking the little feedback menu (three dots to the right of any flagged video) and posting the following note. Any of my dear readers or patrons may use my wording if you wish:
“YouTube places misleading and false notifications on non-leftwing political content. YouTube is a platform, not a publisher, not a censor, and certainly not the Thought Police. Stop your propaganda.”
About John C Wright
John C. Wright is a practicing philosopher, a retired attorney, newspaperman, and newspaper editor, and a published author of science fiction. Once a Houyhnhnm, he was expelled from the august ranks of purely rational beings when he fell in love; but retains an honorary title.
