Once upon a time I had an embedded YouTube player in this blog.
I enjoyed listening to the favorite songs I loaded on to it as I wrote.
Then one day YouTube got sold, soon enough my password into it which was attached to a Yahoo account stopped working, and the forsaken YouTube channel still shows up on the Internet though I want it taken down and many of the songs I loaded on it went poof a while back.
There were a couple ways to look at the borrowing of music from YouTube. One was that it was a lot like a lending library. We've used books, films, music and so on from our lending libraries without guilt about what happens to the intellectual properties involved. Re YouTube, those were the days when people posted videos with some notion of community interest and volunteerism - not much for profit.
However, the more commercial YouTube got, the more posters profited - while original artists languished in unpaid hell - the less comfortable I got with this borrowing. It seemed to me that crediting the artists might have given them some advertising or some patronage. But I've met artists who were ripped during their careers and seeing their work up on YouTube just ripped them back up.
Some people are making a living on creating YouTube videos with original content and art.
Some of these are of high quality, a pleasure to look at, intriguing, and worth your time.
Finding videos that are worth your time is increasingly difficult. It's one more thing that can waste your time.
More often I find videos that are confusing because they have agendas, sound authoritative, but are spinning opinion. Conspiracy theories are often in this category. There's nothing wrong with having an opinion. It's all American to have an opinion. However, I WISH YOUTUBE WOULD HAVE AN OPINION CATEGORY when you chose to advance or refine your search. I'm sure that those who are trying to present themselves as alternative news stations would hate to put themselves in the opinion category, but to a viewer/listener it would be helpful.
Among the things I would like to filter out are ROBO VOICES. I don't want to hear any "news" delivered by a robo voice, which often mistakes words and pronunciations and has a hint of "anonymous" in it. I'd like to filter out the names of accounts. If I determine that an account is fake news (exaggerated gossip) maybe I would prefer to eliminate it from selections.
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