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**Demonstration: Alphabet / YouTube Letter** **Demonstration: Alphabet / YouTube Letter**
So let’s put this into practice. So let’s put this into practice. In Episode 2 we are going to explain this next topic in great detail, but for now let me whet your apetite.
We’ve talked about overflow, distraction, exhaustion. Now let’s see how it works in the real world, at the level where it matters. We’ve talked about overflow, distraction, exhaustion. Now let’s see how it works in the real world, at the level where it matters.
Alphabet — the parent company of YouTube — sent a letter to Congress. A polished piece of corporate testimony. On the surface, it looks like responsibility. Like accountability. Alphabet — the parent company of YouTube — sent a letter to Congress. (By the way, documents in the Congessional Record are some of the best materials for the Civic Analyst to process.) That letter is s polished piece of corporate testimony. On the surface, it looks like responsibility. Like accountability.
But when you read it as a Civic Analyst, something else comes through. But when you read it as a Civic Analyst, something else comes through. Again, we are going to expand on this in great detail.As the matter of fact the material for the next episode, Episode 2, is already pushed to the Git repo, you can read it there. I'll still make the screencast for the visually imparied, but the rest of you can just simply read the transcript and the analyses.
Alphabet writes: *“We provide a range of viewpoints.”* So, Alphabet writes: *“We provide a range of viewpoints.”*
That sounds like debate, doesn’t it? Healthy disagreement, freedom of expression. That sounds like debate, doesn’t it? Healthy disagreement, freedom of expression.
But in practice, what do we see? Not debate — but white noise. Billions of uploads, millions of voices — with little structure or exchange, and rarely any civic value you can act on. A flood so overwhelming that testimony drowns before it’s even heard. But in practice, what do we see? Not debate — but white noise. Billions of uploads, millions of voices — with little structure or exchange, and rarely any civic value you can act on. A flood so overwhelming that testimony drowns before it’s even heard.