I mean really, “Further I think products like this are actually unethical”? Did you really just jump to the defence of a near 2 trillion dollar company whose business model overtly threatens some of our most fundamental human rights?
I mean really, “Further I think products like this are actually unethical”? Did you really just jump to the defence of a near 2 trillion dollar company whose business model overtly threatens some of our most fundamental human rights?
For example, in your comment you take for granted that Google "overtly threatens some of our most fundamental human rights". I could imagine reasonable arguments that Google does some harm in some cases, and it would even be defensible to claim that Google does more harm than good for some groups of people (although I disagree). But the position you take as a given seems extreme to me and conflicts strongly with my conception of "human rights" and "overt".
There are numerous current (and past) legal cases against Google, including numerous antitrust / anticompetitive cases. Several of those hinge on influence and manipulation through that chief organ of a democratic society, media.
Google's role, and YouTube's specifically, in radicalisation, is rather well documented.
"How YouTube Built a Radicalization Machine for the Far-Right" (2018)
It's a target-rich search: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=how+youtube+radicalizes&ia=web https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-youtube-pulled-these-men-d...