[kwlug-disc] Apparently YouTube loves Canadian Youtubers

[Ronald Barnes]

Chris Craig wrote on 2022-11-28 17:52:
>     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.

I can see some logic to that.

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However, since users are no longer able to see the down-votes a video 
has received to allow them to gauge whether it might be worth their time 
to watch, I'm not entirely sympathetic to Google / YouTube here.

That was a some-times useful feature that they pulled to prevent 
"brigading" influencing viewers, I believe?

"Brigading" can still occur, the content creator is still aware of the 
voting ratios, but we users aren't.

But large down-vote ratios can also indicate poor quality content 
unworthy of watching.

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