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  1. Feb 2025
    1. But it is YouTube’scomplex economic allegiances that compel it to both play host to amateur video cultureand provide content owners the tools to criminalize it.

      I learned that YouTube must balance between supporting user-generated content and protecting corporate interests.

    2. ‘Videos that are considered sexually suggestive, or that contain profanity, will bealgorithmically demoted on our “Most Viewed”, “Top Favorited”, and other browsepages’ (YouTube, 2008a).

      Something I learned was, based on what content is in a video that it can be demoted on things like "Most viewed" and "Top Favorited." I did not know that based on certain content in a video that it could alter or change the popularity of it or how often it can be looked at/seen.

    3. All four of these semantic areas are relevant to why ‘platform’ has emerged in referenceto online content-hosting intermediaries and, just as important, what value both its speci-ficity and its flexibility offer them.

      This is something new I learned because I was not aware that the term platform had these different meanings behind them. The four semantic areas are: computational, architectural, figurative, and political. All of these categories make up how the term platform came to be and what it truly means.