Mark Ledwich: Against Rebecca Lewis's "Alternative Influencer Network" BS

This is really good.
The Lewis crap is crap.
Though, quoting Ledwich:

   Although I do not believe YouTube incentivises extremism, or that YouTube is predominantly right-wing, I still believe that the debate surrounding social justice issues could be less divisive. There seems to be a higher proportion of reactionary anti-social justice content compared to other platforms, and many YouTubers focus on the most extreme actions of progressive activists — unfairly labelling this as indicative of “the left”. Most of YouTubers are reacting to the issue of the day, especially when their outgroup does something outrageous. You also see the same from leftist YouTubers.
   Despite this, calls for censorship, such as are implied in the Data & Society report, are intolerant, partisan, and extreme. Their targets include centrist and mainstream right commentators (e.g. Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Dennis Prager) and they offer no viewpoint-neutral rules of what an acceptable YouTube video is. The justification offered is that their videos are “harmful” — a concept that has crept so far that it is almost meaningless. Indeed, the harmfulness of a video seems to be a factor of the viewer’s politics more than the video itself.
   I think our tribal instincts make politics on social media worse than expected, but I am hopeful that new social norms and effective platform “nudges” will develop. To do this, we all need to work hard to tolerate and empathize with people in our out-groups. I will do this right now and show some love to the progressive activists. I would like to endorse the leftist channels of ContraPoints, Robert Wright and Ezra Klein (who is, in fact, the author of the Vox article I just disagreed with). They seem genuinely interested in ideas and have demonstrated a willingness to attempt good discourse outside their own tribes. This is what political YouTube needs more of.

Solid points.
Though....as I've said before: I do believe that the left tends to be rather monolithic in the sense that the more centrist left is extremely hesitant to criticize the radical left, and this tends to pull the left leftward. The centrist right commonly criticizes and distances itself from the extremist right. The left recognizes no enemies to the left. That's not true of the right. And the craziest left-wing craziness today is extremely likely to be mainstream leftism tomorrow (and not to be questioned by any of us the day after that...)
   But, then, I'm not the most temperate voice you're likely to encounter about this stuff...