Back to episode — Episode 1356 Scott Adams - Turkey Gets Stuffed, Propaganda Updates, Mandatory Kneeling, More Outrages
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filled and they're running out of oxygen and stuff. And there's a big question about whether the United States is doing enough to help in terms of vaccine materials, etc. Now I don't know the details of that. It could be that it's just not easy to help and we can't do it. But I gotta think that for the long run I can't think of anything that would be better for American homeland security than mak…
← Previous segment →. Yay. And I thought I'd give you a little update on shadow banning allegedly. Now the weird thing about any of this social media shadow banning or whatever it is, is that you can never really be sure, right? There are all kinds of things that look like maybe was this shadow banning? I really can't tell. But I'll just sort of tell you what's happening.
As you know, a number of my videos get demonetized, sometimes taken down, more rarely taken down. But YouTube does watch me pretty carefully and apparently I've been close enough to the line of getting canceled that you know I get demonetized on a regular basis. And that's sort of their warning that there's something you're doing that's not quite a hundred percent cool with the rules. Now almost all, I don't know the ratio, 95 percent maybe of the things they demonetize get reversed on appeal, meaning that they shouldn't have been demonetized. Is it intentional? Do you think that getting demonetized 95 percent of the time is just the algorithm looking for keywords and there's no human intervention in that? Could be, because I talk about a lot of controversial issues. So you know the keyword alone could make some advertisers anxious. So it could be just that. I wouldn't rule that out.
But I was looking at my traffic over the last year and you can see that my traffic built and built and built through the end of 2020. But just about the time when the big conversation was the big lie, do you remember the big lie? That's what the mainstream media decided was the term for anybody who is talking about the election integrity in the non-approved way. So if you had any non-approved thoughts about election integrity you were in trouble on social media. So my traffic was up, up, up, up and roughly my hand is about where the chart was. It was a pretty good climb, up, up, up, up, up until all the conversation was about the integrity of the election and then straight downhill for several months. And that as soon as nobody was really talking about the election integrity anymore, right back up.
So I can't tell if there was any hu
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man involvement or algorithmic involvement in what was straight up, straight down and then back up again. But it does coincide with the time that the powers that be were trying to suppress competing opinions about the credibility of the election. Was that a coincidence? Was it just because the Trump conversation fell off? But then I would expect my traffic just to go down forever, right, if the on…
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