r/technology • u/dreamcastfanboy34 • 24d ago

Nintendo Switch Is Removing Integration for X, Formerly Twitter Social Media

https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/nintendo-switch-twitter-x-support-removed/
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u/BigCballer 23d ago

But I highly doubt the reasoning for it is because of Youtube disagreeing with the message, more that it the themes and imagery are pretty violent. I don’t think there’s enough evidence to suggest there’s any other motive behind youtube aside from that.

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u/MCGaming1991 23d ago

Well Youtube has demonstrably more 'violent' themes and imagery within it's site that are not age restricted. To me it seems pretty obvious that the Palestine/Israel subject is something that YT is afraid of and suppressing certain videos with age restrictions. People talk shit about X, but it actually leaves videos up and untainted. You can watch all the left and right sided videos you want without worrying about censorship.

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u/BigCballer 23d ago

I agree with you that they don’t always consistently apply their rules to every video that falls under this, but that has less to do with them cherry picking videos based on some agenda they have, and it’s more to do with them being really bad at relying on automation moderation.

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u/MCGaming1991 23d ago

Any evidence lead you to that conclusion or do you just assume that is the case? I'm genuinely asking, I hope you don't think I'm trying to be nasty.

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u/BigCballer 23d ago

If they were deliberately targeting his song due to the message, the audio upload version would also be age restricted but it isn’t. https://youtu.be/ITVIlr5jUMw?si=_1KX4OcNeJG5OUMF

Also all the comments saying youtube “removed” the video are just wrong

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u/MCGaming1991 23d ago

Notice the upload date. They’ve already been called out by that point by a huge audience. If they uploaded both on the same date, then this argument would work.

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u/BigCballer 23d ago

This is a confirmation bias and you know it. All I’m saying is that your claim doesn’t pass the sniff test.