"but it also reduces the public's access to information"
A) What information does it supposedly reduce? I'm pretty sure you can tell me that something happened without showing me a video. Did you know that there was a 3 car pileup on route 3? Why no I don't because I haven't seen a video of it!
B) Removing the video caused the information to proliferate more due to the Streisand Effect. I literally hadn't heard about the incident until all the fuss was raised about the removal of the video.
Maybe you should start following some proper news outlets, including some run by traditional news organisations, you know, the ones that search for news and publish it. Go out of your basement and buy a newspaper or so. Or if that's too much, try the online BBC news [bbc.com].
If you only found out about this by reading about the removal of the video, you're really looking in the wrong places for your news.
"Maybe you should start following some proper news outlets"
Why? What would be the benefit? In my observation I hear about anything that directly affects me from others, with the sole exception of tech news.
Why am I going to watch the news to get answers to questions like: What house burned down today? What idiot tried to rob what store today? What criminal with a badge shot somebody because they didn't like them today? What atrocities happened overseas today?
The news is the same every day. It doesn't change. Why should I waste my time focusing on it when I could be spending my time either doing something productive or posting on Slashdot?
If by "decreeses" you mean "increases", then yes (Score:5, Insightful)
A) What information does it supposedly reduce? I'm pretty sure you can tell me that something happened without showing me a video. Did you know that there was a 3 car pileup on route 3? Why no I don't because I haven't seen a video of it!
B) Removing the video caused the information to proliferate more due to the Streisand Effect. I literally hadn't heard about the incident until all the fuss was raised about the removal of the video.
Re: (Score:2)
Maybe you should start following some proper news outlets, including some run by traditional news organisations, you know, the ones that search for news and publish it. Go out of your basement and buy a newspaper or so. Or if that's too much, try the online BBC news [bbc.com].
If you only found out about this by reading about the removal of the video, you're really looking in the wrong places for your news.
Re:If by "decreeses" you mean "increases", then ye (Score:2)
Why? What would be the benefit? In my observation I hear about anything that directly affects me from others, with the sole exception of tech news.
Why am I going to watch the news to get answers to questions like: What house burned down today? What idiot tried to rob what store today? What criminal with a badge shot somebody because they didn't like them today? What atrocities happened overseas today?
The news is the same every day. It doesn't change. Why should I waste my time focusing on it when I could be spending my time either doing something productive or posting on Slashdot?