YouTube, or "EditorTube"? - TechPresident

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"A few days ago, YouTube, the giant videosharing site, unveiled some site upgrades that has a vocal chunk of its user base up in arms. The most important change, from the point of view of YouTube's burgeoning critics, is the removal of social data about videos in all the different categories and its replacement with videos that are being handpicked by the site's editors. As Brave New Films' Jim Gilliam, who alerted me to this, explains, "Before there used to be several pages of 'the most viewed,' 'most discussed,' 'top rated,' 'top favorited,' etc. for each individual category there...not just the editors picks and some random other videos.""

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"Along with more than 4,000 text comments, his video protest has already prompted more than 200 video responses--a huge number. In just three hours, it became one of the most discussed on the site.
I asked him if he had any idea why this change might have been made and he wrote me,
Outside of YouTube's growing connection with the mainstream media and apparently the Government, there is no reason for YouTube to take down the catagories. A number of people have coincided this with the fact that YouTube doesn't want a number of videos highly critical of the candidates splashed all over their website. Instead all you get is ones handpicked by the YouTube editors which all give glowing reivews, (The one exception is a video entitled "Ron Paul is full of Shit") However a side effect of their sudden corporate sucking up is the death of the community, and people have started nicknaming YouTube as EditorTube."

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