Four: Headquarters

Rabbit Hole

The New York Times

Society & Culture, Technology

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

A trip to YouTube for a conversation with the woman trying to change it.

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0:00.0	Tell me what internet is.
0:08.1	Can you explain what internet is?
0:09.9	What do you write to it like mail?
0:11.3	How do I become a member of internet?
0:13.9	Now as you may or may not know, I have poured over 12 years of my life into my YouTube channel,
0:22.8	this YouTube channel, heart, mind, body, soul, money, resources, travel, expertise.
0:29.0	And I stand by what I have done.
0:32.6	And then let me tell you what happened in a 24 hour period.
0:38.0	I have a strike against my channel.
0:42.8	Okay, so Kevin, not long after you and I went down to us for
0:48.2	Jinya and taught to Caleb, things that YouTube started changing.
0:53.7	Right.
0:54.7	Apparently you see I had violated community standards.
0:57.7	So as stories like Caleb's have started coming out about how YouTube and its recommendation
1:05.2	algorithm may be pushing people toward these extreme views.
1:10.3	This was a direct shot across the bow.
1:12.6	YouTube has started telling some video makers that their content is against YouTube's new
1:17.0	policies.
1:18.0	What they want to do is to have me start to self-sensor and say, wow.
1:21.2	Like Stefan Molano.
1:23.0	And so I've just been told I'm on double secret probation.
1:26.2	I have a mechanism.
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