You can watch videos on YouTube, or not, and it ends there.
Nothing about this "removes dissent" since comments still exist. And you know, the entire mechanisms of government and public protest which predated YouTube.
What it removes is the ability for people to gamify a metric. The metric still exists. It's still used for ranking and personalization.
But a brigade of leftists swarming a button on a video that mentioned nuclear energy isn't useful.
Nothing about this "removes dissent" since comments still exist. And you know, the entire mechanisms of government and public protest which predated YouTube.
What it removes is the ability for people to gamify a metric. The metric still exists. It's still used for ranking and personalization.
But a brigade of leftists swarming a button on a video that mentioned nuclear energy isn't useful.