You can smell the desperation.
YouTube will now place Wikipedia entries about global warming below videos ‘refuting evidence of rising temperatures’
- YouTube will add snippets of factual information on select video clips
- It will target controversial topics, such as anti-vaccination and climate change
- YouTube hopes it will reduce misinformation and conspiracy theories on the site
- Only US viewers can see the feature for now, but YouTube plans to roll-out the feature worldwide at a later date
By JOE PINKSTONE FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 20:52 AEST, 9 August 2018 | UPDATED: 22:15 AEST, 9 August 2018YouTube is fighting back against climate change deniers by implementing a fact-checking box below user-uploaded videos on the controversial topic.
The system will surface information from Wikipedia or Britannica Encyclopedia to display factual information in bitesize chunks below videos on climate change.
YouTube already implemented the feature for videos on a slew of other contentious topics, including the MMR vaccination, the moon landing and UFOs.
However, this is the first time the platform has targeted climate change deniers.
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In one example of the updated feature, a Wikipedia snippet read: ‘multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.‘
A YouTube spokesperson has previously confirmed there will be a time delay from when a Wikipedia page is edited to when it appears on the preview beneath a video.
This is designed to allow Wikipedia editors time to catch any discrepancies that sneak under the radar.
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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-6042837/YouTube-takes-climate-change-deniers.html
A lot of people are worried about giant left wing tech monopolies hijacking the climate debate and other hot political issues. I do not share this concern.
The reason this attempted takeover won’t work is, media giants like Youtube are not true monopolies.
Think about what happened when traditional media giants got uppity. They didn’t dominate the debate when they stopped pretending to be objective, they just alienated former viewers who were offended by their bias. Their arrogance created the opportunity for the rise of new media enterprises, by creating a large pool of people who were dissatisfied with the increasingly open biases of traditional media.
I believe something similar is about to happen to Youtube and other openly biased tech giants.
You don’t have to use Youtube for uploading videos. Youtube is convenient and familiar, but now they are becoming abusive towards a substantial number of their users. Like any abusive relationship, sooner or later victims of that abuse will reach the end of their patience, and will turn to alternative services.
The free market will punish their transgressions. Users will vote with their feet.
Make no mistake, those alternative services exist – like the tech service* which for years has quietly supported Anthony Watts by staying true to their original mission, instead of ditching commercial sanity by embracing a crazy new mission of social engineering.
[*Eric means WordPress, which WUWT is hosted on. -Anthony]
UPDATE: It seems this YouTube Video has escaped such notice. – Anthony
People need to start using alternatives. For twitter, use Gab. Alternatives to Youtube are Steem and Dtube.
Search engines use one of these twelve alternatives.
Use the word alternative in your search query, if you are not happy with the ‘program’, you are currently using.
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Regards
Climate Heretic
PS This was posted on joannenovas website as well.
How many times has somebody ridiculed a critic of AGW for using Wiki ?
Maybe it’s not a bad thing. If you actually read the wiki link, you can compare, like WUWT does, the predictions versus the results. The only bad thing is that they changed the dates when all the catastrophes were suppose to occur. It’s as if the predictions made in 1990’s didn’t exist.
In other words you have to believe in the AGW agenda or you’re pretty dense.
That’s why I think AGW is desperate. Not enough dense people. It’s only hot in the summer time. Not really on board with turning the heat off during a New England snowstorm.
Give’em enough rope, they’ll hang themselves.
I see Dr Steve Turley has moved some of this channel content to Bitchute in preparation for when Youtube decide to ban him.
PS I have no evidence to prove he has a doctorate or otherwise.
“Users will vote with their feet.”
They already have Eric, voted… for a “giant left wing tech monopoly”.
That was before they started graffitiing our work Ryan. Next few years should be interesting.
One thing with alarmists. They are convinced that any trend that they like, will continue to infinity. They hold onto this conviction with a religious fervor that is unshakable.
Anything built in a day can fall in a day …
Anyone who relies on Wikipedia as an authoritative source is definitely taking sides.
Even my son’s grammar school won’t allow the students to cite Wikipedia as a source. On the other hand, it can be a great source for a primary literature list and you can do your own digging from there.
Sounds like a great school.
“Even my son’s grammar school won’t allow the students to cite Wikipedia as a source.”
That’s funny! And telling. And perhaps a sign of hope.
Nothing says, “rigorously researched and scientifically sound” like a Wikipedia citation.
Like Wikipedia is an authority on anything.
YouTube needs to take a step back, maybe flag any controversial subject with that label (of course this mean both sides of the debate) and maybe a message “look for opposing views.”
of course this will open up the debate on what is controversial…
Will there be Russian vodka ad placements also?
How about links to UAH and ARGO data graphs in real time instead.
“refuting evidence of rising temperatures”
What about those who accept rising temperatures and present empirical evidence that the warming is not related to emissions?
https://chaamjamal.wordpress.com/human-caused-global-warming/
It is, and has been, getting generally warmer for thousands of years. The lie is the claimed cause of the change. Reliable, science based proof of the causal variable(s) is seriously lacking. Such a note should be added to all pro AGW comments/articles as well. Now, that would be a good fairness doctrine on the subject.
You should take a look at
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_climatic_optimum
It is safer to say that it has been getting generally warmer for the last several centuries, since the end of the little ice age.
Just eyeballing based on those proxies looks like the initial 4 to 5 k years is where it all occurred and cooling since?
I’d say it’s been getting generally cooler for thousands of years, and not likely to fully recover to the Optimum temperature of 6-7000 years ago. We’ve seen centennial-scale warming within millenial-scale cooling.
Thanks to all. I’m starting an alt web resources list to start the transition to these better alternatives. I’ll ditch these con job information oligarchs in the Valley the same way I ditched Nat Geogr and NPR.
Hey U TUBE….EFF OFF you elitist smelly leftists!
Will they do the same for climate warmist who clearly fabricate or exaggerated claims? The answer of course is No.
Yet they say they try to claim they are not bias.
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“multiple lines of scientific evidence show that the climate system is warming.”
What a retarded statement. No one denies that we have warmed some since the LIA. No so-called “multiple lines of evidence” required, but of course the Gang Green cult like to appear “sciency” and love the “consensus” angle, so will use that whenever they can. However, they also manage to sneak in a Big Lie with the use of the word “is”. What the climate is doing now is anyone’s guess. We may, in fact, have already started cooling.
I see flat earth videos and Nibiru crap in the Youtube lineup regularly. Not to mention political stuff. Are they going to tell us how to vote next?
I shouldn’t give them ideas!
Would be nice if we had an AG who’d begin threatening liberal corporate America with antitrust. Do as much to liberal corporate America as politicians that they put into office did to industries that they hate, and invested against.
Anti-trust has always been a political tool for use by politicians.
Any economic effects are incidental.
Well, when the corporations decide to get political, using political tools in response is appropriate. Live by the political sword, die by the political sword.
I wonder if this will be programmed to be seasonal so that it only operates in summer months and during hurricane events…..or when payment is received to extend it.
I wondered, too, how effective this will be in 10 ft of snow and subzero temperatures. The east coast of the US has been pounded with snow for two or three years by now. After shoving your walk for the eight time and freezing your fingers off, will the message be annoying? I bet it will.
I must have entered a time warp, had a Migraine like headache before I went to bed and no it seems I have woken up and returned to 1984 [George Orwell]?
Migraines will cause things like that!
For goodness sake. It IS warming! It should be warm. As warm, give or take insignificant amounts above and below, as it as been in similar cycles over the past 800,000 years. Christ almighty. Now to really be factual all the web sites that say “but CO2”, should specify that comparing atmospheric CO2 directly (a modern method) is not the same as measuring it in compressed ice (the paleo-method). It will take another 80 years at least to compare historic direct measures of CO2 with compressed ice levels from the same era, unless someone destroys or fiddles with the direct measured data. But that would never happen.
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/milankovitch-cycles-paleoclimatic-change-and-hominin-evolution-68244581
I have already “deplatformed” myself from most all things Alphabet/Google. I really don’t need any of their products or “services” and do my best to block their adware from infecting my browser.
Plus I believe Google Chrome records keystrokes.
‘I welcome this change,’ Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, told BuzzFeed News.
http://katharinehayhoe.com/wp2016/
That’s it for me – done with YouTube permanently. I won’t support thought tyranny. Thanks for the heads up WUWT.
Are there really a lot of people who claim the Little Ice Age wasn’t colder than today?
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind this, except that they throw the exact same label on people who doubt the urgent need for emissions policies based on computer models that can supposedly predict 100-year global temperatures within a degree or two (even though they’ve never been able to get even 30 years right before), policies that even according to such models will have very little effect on what has historically been beneficial anyway.
It’s like putting the same label on videos claiming “vaccines don’t work” as videos documenting the vaccine fraud in China.
Nobody claims all vaccines have no effect what so ever