The Real Reason You Can't Find Dislike Counts on Social Media
mosbat
Posted on April 17, 2022
YouTube,LinkedIn and other mainstream social networking platforms that are known for suppression of freedom of speech either do not include a dislike button or do not display the dislikes' count.
YouTube provided a weak argument on why they removed the dislike count saying that certain creators were being targeted with dislikes. However, many people across the web found this to be unconvincing and poor argument since we know that YouTube hates creators and is ready to ban/demonetize the creators for the silliest and most ridiculous reasons given YouTube is a wealthy corporation with a revenue of 28.84 billion US dollars. (Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/289658/youtube-global-net-advertising-revenues/). However, what no body mentioned is the fact that this is nothing more than another psychological trick to make controversial topics including hate speeches seem acceptable to the public. Imagine if there was a dislike count while someone was trying to convince you that racism and violence are Ok.
The majority of people who don't pay attention to details are more likely to be deluded that the contents of a video or a post are Ok and acceptable if it has 100s of likes but no one pays attention to whether or not the message of the video are morally acceptable or something that goes against all human ethical moral values. Here, we are not arguing about LBGT or feminism but rather, we are arguing about very fundamental human right violations where certain political parties promote hatred against innocent people on those platforms with pure impunity. Most of those politicians have a leverage of maybe owning a huge amount of stocks in that platform or have an influence on the rules that could make or break the corporation; I'm not talking about Elon Musk since Elon Musk proved to be in favor of freedom of speech at certain occasions.
You, as a human being with a mind and soul should not accept being treated as a puppet; you should not accept being programmed against your own freewill.
We may not be able to defeat the multi billion corporations, but we are able to change the battlefield by simply not using their platforms, not signing up and not investing/uploading videos on their platforms.
It is ok to watch a video or a post if it's something educational posted by someone with good intentions; but we need to let go of those platforms and consider as if they don't exist. There are plenty of alternatives that have more respect for us as human beings than those platforms:
The best YouTube alternatives: (Source: https://nordvpn.com/blog/youtube-alternatives/
1. Vimeo
2. DTube
3. Internet Archives Video Section
4. Metacafe
5. 9GAG TV
6. Dailymotion
7. Vevo
8. Twitch
9. TED
10. Crackle
Posted on April 17, 2022
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