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The blog post can be read as advocating self-censorship by Youtube. Or, more accurately, even more self-censorship by Youtube than they are already doing. Where did you read that they recommend state censorship, i.e. speech restriction by law?


"So what do we do about all this? /.../ Additionally, Chaslot recommends regulators step in and issue laws that begin to curb this."


That does clearly imply that Mozilla recommends it too, but the phrasing the article uses (ie: 'Additionally, Chaslot recommends') is noncommittal.

The impression the full article gives me is that its purpose is to raise awareness that the Youtube recommendation algorithm is manipulative.

When I read the title here on HN I thought it meant that Mozilla was demanding the US government force Youtube to scrap the recommendations feature entirely.




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