[kwlug-disc] Apparently YouTube loves Canadian Youtubers

[Chris Craig]

>
> I too haven't followed closely, but my impression is that it's trying to
> be "Can Con" (Canadian Content for radio (& TV?)) for the internet.
>
>
> Can Con has been pretty successful in promoting Canadian musicians as
> far as I can tell, but the gist I get from C-11 is that it's either
> misdirected, misguided, too great an imposition on the tech companies,
> or maybe doomed because ... reasons, or maybe against our freedoms.
>

The gist from Google/YouTube's standpoint is that in order to apply Can Con
rules for Canadian users of Youtube, they would have to promote Canadian
content in their recommendation system. They are saying that by doing this,
Canadian users are less likely to receive the results they really want and
react by downvoting videos that they otherwise wouldn't even have seen.
Then because those videos received downvotes, they would be less likely to
be recommended for the global community.
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