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[–] [email protected] 63 points 2 years ago (4 children)

How is it YT is still playing videos produced by this clown?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Youtube has no morals, no standards. It is a business, and their business is eyes. The more eyes, the more ads, the more revenue. Everything else is nuance.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does YouTube only deplatform people who have been convicted of a crime?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have no idea what their standards are, but if I were running the company I would deplatform someone convicted of human trafficking when their videos are basically justification for human trafficking.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm glad you would, but that wasn't what I was asking about.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I answer what you're asking about in the first 4 words

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Also he isn’t convicted yet.

If you have no idea then what does this comment mean?

I'm not exactly looking for snark just some clarification to your comment.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It's an internet forum, and I'm tossing out plausible reasoning YouTube might have.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Thanks for letting me know what I'm commenting on, have a nice day or night.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm still angry that Jordan Peterson gets so much shit thrown up on YT. As a Canadian, I'd just like to say we prefer being associated with Beiber.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beiber gained some maturity. Those other two, not so much. I feel your pain.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Still a wifebeater tho

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Don't worry. After watching Trailer Park Boys, all Canadians are like this. Prove me wrong! /s

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's just water under the fridge.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

You sure it's not rocket appliances?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Frig off Ricky!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I will forever associate Canadaland with Celine Dion. That’s not bad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Out of every "Conservative influencer" Peterson is the least unpalatable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You mean mr I'm-addicted-to-Benzos-and-to-detox-I-let-russians-put-me-in-a-month-long-coma-resulting-in-brain-damage?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

Yeah? I mean, I don't agree with him on most things, but for all you can criticize him for, why that?

Drug dependence doesn't make someone inherently a bad person, nor does being Russian.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My understanding (entirely mediated by the Behind the Bastards episodes about him, so take it with a grain of salt) is that he never posted directly to YT; everything of his up there was and continues to be reuploads from his followers. So, regrettably, even though Romania has thrown him into a hole in the earth, Tate-stans will continue to spread the bad word.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey, thanks for that! It makes me feel a bit better about it! I sometimes watch Behind the Bastards and haven’t disproven anything they claim, but I don’t always take the time to fact-check them, either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've caught a few slips of the tongue and minor errors when Robert touches on things I have particular knowledge of, but not any gross misrepresentations. The warning was more along the lines of "I haven't gone to primary sources on this" rather than casting aspersions on the podcast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Noted. Thank you.