I am still ticked off about Youtube getting rid of dislikes. The reason companies do so is to maximize market share, and to maximize either revenue (Amazon for example) or net revenues/profits(Apple for example), and one dislike is basically negative advertising against them, it could cost them a sale, or just generate negative PR.
But there is a second dumber reason. To protect people who have fragile egos. I am sorry if you don't like your dislike bars either grow up and accept criticism as a public figure or leave the entertainment industry. You don't HAVE to be a Youtuber or be a public figure on social media. I have gotten ratioed on Twitter and attacked Youtube, I didn't respond by wanting that person silenced.
Also, there have been cases where I have worked hard only to find my work sucks, and I got a lot of negative feedback. When I was presenting for intermediate Macro-Economics against three presentations, my presentation was literally the worst, my equations sucked, models were wrong, my graphs were wrong and confusing, and my slides weren't as good. I had an argument with the professor/Ph.D. student about it(It was on supply chain shocks vs supply chain shortages), so instead I redid a lot of it and made my models, equations, and information better, and I got the highest grade in the class on the final paper related to the presentation. (It turns out the economy wasn't gloomy and was really good due to the Biden recovery, I was warped by my hatred of Biden at the time)
There was a second time in the international relations course where I argued China was in the wrong/immoral in the Cold War 2 between China, and the US war with classmates on a Zoom session. Almost the entire class was against me, the Chinese Expat students/international students hated my guts, the communists' students sided with the international students, and argued China was better than the US in civil rights(I shit you not), the neo-conservatives and republicans didn't back me up or support me, the liberals assumed I was wrong, the Trump supporter supported me, but ended up turning against me when I mentioned the US was forming a world government/New World Order. It was a blow, and even the Trump IR professor who had written for Vox that Trump's foreign policy was better than Obama didn't say anything. Despite this I didn't cuss at them, call anyone names, and I mostly argued civilly while the other side didn't. Because while I am sensitive to criticism I still love free speech which many people in Gen Z and Millenials don't.
They would rather cancel, and riot in Berkeley beat up Trump supporters in San Jose, and knockdown statues of Abe Lincoln
Protests that erupted at UC Berkeley ahead of a planned Wednesday appearance by right-wing commentator Milo Yiannopoulos caused $100,000 worth of damage to the campus, the school said Thursday.
www.cnn.com
Police declared a riot after windows in downtown buildings were smashed.
www.nbcnews.com
Disliking something is free speech, whether you like it or not. No wonder I despise this part of the anti-free speech left.
