Making the dislike count private across YouTube
Also, coming soon:<p>User comment:  DISLIKE<p>Other users click like button on comment a ton of times...<p>Next official move?<p>Making comments visible to subscribers and premium users only...<p>Google is going against basic human nature here and it&#x27;s Orwellian as fuck.<p>Next unofficial move?<p>Censor comments containing, &quot;DISLIKE&quot; because the ones doing it will stand right out same as they did before and having them not stand out is what is being attempted here.<p>And?<p>Yeah, DISLIKE<p>Edit:<p>I realize this is part of a bigger trend and that is to avoid mass signaling of any kind.<p>The major players do not want large numbers of people communicating because those lead to large actions, which are expensive and risky from their point of view.  While this is perfectly understandable, a functional society allows for these things and it bears those costs and risk because of the even greater costs and risks associated with clamping down on dissent like this.