The NY Times finds a troubled young college dropout who claims YouTube turned him from Liberal to Alt-Right radical — that he was “brainwashed” by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm which led him ever deeper into the right-wing “rabbit hole.” The Times illustrates the story with a collage of commentators, including Bill Whittle, Stefan Molyneux, Steven Crowder, and Ben Shapiro, implying they’re culpable for the brainwashing. Bill Whittle reacts to this new, libelous, effort by a Progressive flagship to shut down freedom of speech.
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NY Times Blames Whittle, Crowder, Shapiro, Molyneux, YouTube, for Making Alt-Right Radical
The NY Times finds a troubled young college dropout who claims YouTube turned him from Liberal to Alt-Right radical — that he was “brainwashed” by YouTube’s recommendation algorithm which led him ever deeper into the right-wing “rabbit hole.” The Times illustrates the story with a collage of commentators, including Bill Whittle, Stefan Molyneux, Steven Crowder, and Ben Shapiro, implying they’re culpable for the brainwashing. Bill Whittle reacts to this new, libelous, effort by a Progressive flagship to shut down freedom of speech.
31 replies on “NY Times Blames Whittle, Crowder, Shapiro, Molyneux, YouTube, for Making Alt-Right Radical”
Bill, just let us know when you’ve formed a gofundme page for your legal fees. I’m sure there are some of us that would gladly contribute to that is well. My wish is that you become a multimillionaire off the lawsuit against them.
Do they try to figure out if what he “learned” made sense given his teachers? (or the NZ shooter mentioned) Biased as they were, they could lay out the logical points and see if they led to his conclusion, or if he’s just an idiot who claimed them as his teachers.
Is Youtube evil because their watchers are drooling morons who cannot stop watching when they decide they don’t like what they’re watching? They pick up watching the same poison the next day, and the next? Do watchers never just start somewhere else and head off on a new video stream? On the other hand, people have been looking at Youtube suggestions related to videos of youth and skewing almost into child porn.
Is not naming an individual channel “damning with faint praise”? We’re not saying, but we’re saying…
I believe The New York Times article wasn’t actually aimed at slandering you and the other Youtube creators, you guys were just collateral damage. It was a hit piece aimed at Youtube and Google. Digital media takes billions in ad revenue away from the traditional media, print and tv, and traditional media wants it back. This time, they were going after Google and Youtube, but I’m guessing stories about Facebook will come soon. The traditional media wants to paint digital media as “not brand safe,” so that the ad buyers, being naturally risk averse, will shy away from digital and give those billions back to the legacy media who have, through decades of self-censorship, shown they can keep their content within the advertisers acceptable bounds. It’s all about money – they don’t care about who they slander to get it.
I’ve been a fan of Bill’s since his “Eject! Eject! Eject!” long-form blogging days and am proud to be a member of his current BW dot com website. If I wasn’t already a member here, this discussion of Scott and Bill would certainly spur me to become one.
We truly are a nation (a world) at war. The NY Times and those other large media companies and political groups that censor, demonetize, de-platform and otherwise try to silence opposing views and voices are not on my side of that war.
Never watched the Young Turks except for the election night meltdown clips but looking at their ages the male members of the ‘young’ Turks are all near or just over 50.
First, you defame and libel your opponent.
Second, you deprive your opponent of his livelihood.
Third, you take away your opponent’s rights under the law.
Fourth, you round up your opponent and put him in a camp.
Fifth, you work your opponent to death or simply murder him.
Does any of this sound familiar at all?
We are already in the second phase.
Ha! We knew you when. Thanks!
Bill, wear it as a badge of honor. Scott, nice job. Sue ’em!
You are damn right Bill!
Dropped my Netflix that I never watch to Join BW.com that I always watch. Seemed only fair.
That’s the spirit, James. Thank you.
So. If Bill thinks being a pilot is awesome, we all magically think the same?
Poppycock. Someone else’s views should not dictate your own. If you feel compelled to agree with someone whether or not they align with your own ideals is weak willed and naive.
The last quote from the article should have been a huge clue to the editor to not even publish the story. It’s a non-story, story. The guy is clearly weak-minded, can’t think for himself and easily influenced and swayed by the newest thing. How can the so-called height of our journalistic endeavors call this a story? Wow! Just wow…….
The use of term’s like Nazi, Alt-Right, Fascist, Racist, etc. have such emotion attached to them that people have misused them extensively to get a raise out of others. For the NYT, who call themselves “The Newspaper of Record” to hang these any of these terms around someone’s neck, they better be able to prove it with a lot more than a quote out of context or they need to be held accountable. People are getting injured and if the trend keeps up will eventually be killed because of these names and the crazy reactionaries among the Progressives. I just took this opportunity to make an additional contribution at BW.com. Thanks for everything you guys do. God Bless you all.
Since I live in the Dayton, Ohio area, I’d like to correct the name of the Dayton newspaper.
I call it the Dayton Daily Bird Cage Liner. That’s all it’s good for.
The cake shop in Colorado just got hit with a third lawsuit by the same sexually mutilated individual who started this harassment campaign. Among other things, She/He/IT was unhappy the cake shop owner was unwilling to make a cake with Satan licking a nine inch dildo. And now the Google CEO has announced you no longer have to violate Google policies to be demonetized. How ironic that the nazification of the internet masquerades as a denazification program. There is no virtue in their virtual signaling, only a dire warning of what is yet to come. Kristallnacht anyone?
Are you serious? Another lawsuit?
“Lawfare” in this great country is definitely the tip of the sword
Please Mr President get the turtle and Senate judiciary on filling all vacancies,stat.
#ninthcircusgottago
#dontneednoroguejudges
just joined because of the article. been supporting a few other you tubers in the same boat. silencing conservatives wont work. dems gonna impload.
Thank you, Kevin.
You won’t regret it. Quality, thoughtful content being provided here. Welcome aboard!
Seconded! And thanks, Kevin.
“War is upon us whether we risk it or not.”
(does someone know where I can find Bill’s Essay “Shards”? It was from Dec. 5th 2013)
JOIN UP!
While I was an early fan of Bill Whittle, I was late becoming a supporting member, so I joined at twice the basic $10 mo. rate.
I doubt Youtube’s supposedly magical algorithms had much to do with that guy’s viewing. If you watch much of non-mainstream Youtube you discover that they do a huge amount of old fashioned human type recommendation. The youtuber on one channel will interview, discuss, recommend another youtuber, video, channel.
RG, is… is that… is there any way possible that you own a full-scale B9?
Sadly, no. I’m forced to be a bubble headed booby all by myself.
Video restricted at work. Of course….
But guess what source article I COULD access, straight from the only online newspaper available through the district network?
Yep. Looking at the collage now.
I wholeheartedly agree. All of you should get together and sue. Between Shapiro and Crowder’s half-Asian lawyer, you’ll definitely make your point.
Damned shame this will mean we see less of Bill Richardson on the Louder with Crowder vids, but at least it will be for a good cause!
I guess adults are no longer responsible for their consumption of media, their actions following their interpretations thereafter…
Sounds like an opportunity to file a class action cash extraction of our favorite bird cage liner…
Class action yes for the NYSLIMES,but I believe Bill may very well have ground for a libel suit .