Youtube took down every channel that didn't agree with the US government/Uncle Joe on Russia/Nato/Ukraine, at least.
RT (Russia) and the so-far-left-they-went-hard-right crowd (Taibbi, etc.), PressTV (Iran), etc.
And they label 'government-funded' channels but not 'corporate-funded' channels, even when those corporations are bigger than governments.
Corporations "set the conditions within which the U.S. government operates, and control it to a large extent" -- but are kind of seen as not important actors -- they're made invisible.
Global corporations are increasingly wealthier than many countries, with Walmart, Apple and Shell richer than Russia, Belgium and Sweden, according to research by the campaigning group Global Justice Now, which found that 69 of the world’s top 100 economic entities are corporations rather than countries in 2015
We definitely need to rein in corporations like YouTube/Google/Alphabet, and not just Big Tech -- but real players like Walmart, ExxonMobile, etc.
I guess you could say that removing all their content and/or shutting down complete channels and/or accounts is 'just not actively promoting them' -- but you wouldn't really be telling the truth then, would you?
Regarding VK and Russian social media, I'm a US-American, so i'm mostly concerned with what US companies do -- because they're much more destructive, and I can do a lot more about them.
i was just reminded of another way YouTube and other organizations censor info that is not friendly to the US government/elite -- mark certain videos or channels as 'Mature', like this one:
Youtube took down every channel that didn't agree with the US government/Uncle Joe on Russia/Nato/Ukraine, at least.
RT (Russia) and the so-far-left-they-went-hard-right crowd (Taibbi, etc.), PressTV (Iran), etc.
And they label 'government-funded' channels but not 'corporate-funded' channels, even when those corporations are bigger than governments.
Corporations "set the conditions within which the U.S. government operates, and control it to a large extent" -- but are kind of seen as not important actors -- they're made invisible.
https://www.accountancydaily.co/corporations-dominate-worlds...
We definitely need to rein in corporations like YouTube/Google/Alphabet, and not just Big Tech -- but real players like Walmart, ExxonMobile, etc.