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posted by n1 on Wednesday June 21 2017, @11:04AM   Printer-friendly
from the google-goes-to-war dept.

Google will step up efforts to censor terrorism-related content on YouTube and its other services. The company says it will take four steps to address violent extremism online:

We will now devote more engineering resources to apply our most advanced machine learning research to train new "content classifiers" to help us more quickly identify and remove extremist and terrorism-related content.

[...] [We] will greatly increase the number of independent experts in YouTube's Trusted Flagger programme. Machines can help identify problematic videos, but human experts still play a role in nuanced decisions about the line between violent propaganda and religious or newsworthy speech. While many user flags can be inaccurate, Trusted Flagger reports are accurate over 90 per cent of the time and help us scale our efforts and identify emerging areas of concern. We will expand this programme by adding 50 expert NGOs to the 63 organisations who are already part of the programme, and we will support them with operational grants.

[...] [We] will be taking a tougher stance on videos that do not clearly violate our policies — for example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content. In future these will appear behind an interstitial warning and they will not be monetised, recommended or eligible for comments or user endorsements.

[...] Finally, YouTube will expand its role in counter-radicalisation efforts. Building on our successful Creators for Change programme promoting YouTube voices against hate and radicalisation, we are working with Jigsaw to implement the "Redirect Method" more broadly across Europe. This promising approach harnesses the power of targeted online advertising to reach potential Isis recruits, and redirects them towards anti-terrorist videos that can change their minds about joining. In previous deployments of this system, potential recruits have clicked through on the ads at an unusually high rate, and watched over half a million minutes of video content that debunks terrorist recruiting messages.

Human video flaggers are paid to skim and evaluate hours worth of content in mere minutes (seconds?). But paying NGOs to watch YouTube all day could improve the situation. I would like to remind any potential terrorists reading this summary to "bomb violence with mercy".

Reported at Bloomberg and NYT.


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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday June 21 2017, @01:54PM (6 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday June 21 2017, @01:54PM (#529013)

    Don't worry, you read it right. Every time they announce these sort of things "the terrorists" are the official target but beheading "snuff" videos and such stay right where they were while wrong think political opponents of the UniParty find life on YouTube a bit more difficult. Eventually the Alt-Tech movement will replace YouTube and life will be good.

    A Civil War isn't coming. A violent divorce is. In these early stages the warring camps are dividing, establishing their own businesses, Internet services and media. We are also quietly dividing physically, look at the studies showing Red areas getting more red, Blue areas getting bluer. It is increasingly clear Progressives and Americans are horrified at the vision of the other team and want nothing of it. If the break isn't allowed to proceed peacefully, and Progs are philosophically prohibited from doing so, there will be blood.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:18PM (1 child)

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:18PM (#529028)

    I agree with that culturally but geographically I am not sure how its going to work with an example of Chicago vs the rest of the state or rest of the midwest for that matter. Or NYC vs NY state for example.

    My gut level guess is a mashup of the cyberpunk idea of the FOQNE corporate franchise operated quasinational entity plus the idea of the Amish or the modern university campus.

    The left is WAY ahead of the right at this mashup, we're seeing it implemented today on college campuses. I suspect we'll see something formalize on the right sooner or later. To some extent gated suburban developments and/or entire suburb cities are kind of this idea now, although kept extremely quiet. You can see why the progs viscerally hate the burbs when viewed in that manner. Burbs are where the non-establishment opposition rebels live.

    At a local level this seems pretty obvious and self organizing and mostly non-violent. How this will play out at a federal or international level is mysterious.

    The only real model I can think of is island countries. With farm automation most of the land is pretty empty, so we're going to have a country of islands surrounded by underpopulated farmland. What do non-unified island countries do in the long run, well, I honestly donno. An entire nation like the Spratly Islands, OK then.

    I suspect part of the state/federal/international overcontrol problem will solve itself via financial system crash combined with ongoing invasion. Back to the days of the city-state. Who gets the nukes?

    Some areas out west need massive centralized control or they don't have enough water to survive. So when civilization downshifts gears as all civilizations do, the west will depopulate. I suspect we'll have some interesting border disputes in the new city-state era.

    My burb will be a nice place to live. Progressive city-states like the cities will literally be Rio, or like Venezuela right now, which iis not so fun.

    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday June 21 2017, @03:55PM

      by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday June 21 2017, @03:55PM (#529067) Journal

      Some areas out west need massive centralized control or they don't have enough water to survive. So when civilization downshifts gears as all civilizations do, the west will depopulate.

      I agree with the second sentence, but not the first. While some folks in Nevada would probably die of dehydration in a societal collapse, that doesn't mean there aren't ways around the water problem besides central control. Imagine a sprawling network of oasis towns, all charging their neighbors bitcoins to pipe water. The ones connected to city states with natural water access would have the best rates, and each extra link in the chain would add a tax to water going down the line.

  • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:45PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:45PM (#529040) Journal

    You mean that the USA is about to break up into several countries by the sheer political leaning demographics? Not that it would break out any real hostilities. But that there is a slow but efficient march of many small steps that lead to geographical areas with a self sufficient demographic. This would then in the short term affect voting, schools, places of work, business etc.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @03:56PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @03:56PM (#529068)

    I agree. If the break isn't allowed to proceed peacefully, and Christians are philosophically prohibited from doing so, there will be blood.

    I'm in a red state and I have fairly conservative values with exceptions, but unfortunately I'm transgendered and for whatever insane reason you assholes have decided to side with feminism on that issue. I decided to be transgendered over dead, so you're going to have to invade my private property and kill me if you want to "cure" me. Come at me bro.

    • (Score: 2) by jmorris on Thursday June 22 2017, @01:50AM

      by jmorris (4844) on Thursday June 22 2017, @01:50AM (#529313)

      This thread is stale enough I'm going to reply and hope it doesn't divert into a huge offtopic furball.

      Actually, I don't care. Until you, as you people always seem to insist, demand I speak a lie.

      That said, you identified your ultimate foe, feminists. The amazing part is you can't seem to understand WHY they must hate you with the fury of a thousand exploding stars.

      Forget what they say, look at what they do. Feminism isn't about equality or any of that crap, it is pure power politics, specifically identity politics. It is about affirmative action, being able to gain advantage, to have the power to dominate men. So of course they hate you. If your team gets the upper hand and rewrites the Prog rulebook they are done. If a white guy like me can put on a dress and some poorly applied makeup and void their advantage their whole lifetime of activism was for nothing. And since the revolution has already passed pure trannies like you by and moved on to fifty plus 'gender identities' I'll be able to put on a dress for the job interview and then back to mens clothes and date women again, declaring I'm just 'gender non-binary' or 'bicurious' or any of a dozen already codified identities that would be compatible with acting 90% heterosexual maie. Title 9 is a dead letter, separate but equal womens sports is a joke, etc. You think guys like me wouldn't do it? Why not, if the Revolution continues there won't be ANY social sanction for a guy wearing a dress, especially since everybody will be in on the joke.

      And we have already seen that if transexuals can exist, be recognized and be placed higher than women, blacks, gays and lesbians on the pyramid of oppression, then transracial can't be denied as a thing either. After all, being genetically of more than one identifiable race exists a hell of lot more often than physical transexualism. And if gender is purely a mental state there is no viable argument against race not being likewise all in the mind. So as soon as the race hustler industry realizes the threat you represent they will be out for your blood too. Because if they can't stop you I'll put on the dress and apply some afrosheen and apply for a job as a black woman; and they know it. Although in reality my task would quickly get even easier; go in as a gender unidentifiable something of unpronounceable pronoun of indeterminate race and then finally revert back to white male as the whole pyramid of oppression collapsed into a contradiction.

  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @06:49PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @06:49PM (#529149)

    [begin cryptographically enhanced message] SJW Special Action Task Force, Jmorris Division:: Status update, subject off meds. Recent postings by subject indicate increasing loss of connection to reality. Viz: "A Civil War isn't coming. A violent divorce is. In these early stages the warring camps are dividing, establishing their own businesses, Internet services and media." Projection of personal family issues on to the political scene? Racist separativism?
          But then there is this: "We are also quietly dividing physically," jmorris may be an amoeba. More: "look at the studies showing Red areas getting more red, Blue areas getting bluer." Nota Bene, no citations given, and request to only look at studies that purportedly show what subject presumes is the case. Clear indication of alt-right bubble syndrome.
          Finally, evidence of psychological alienation: "It is increasingly clear Progressives and Americans are horrified at the vision of the other team and want nothing of it." If subject identifies as the "other team", then he finds all progressives and all Americans are against him. Paranoia like this bears observation. "If the break isn't allowed to proceed peacefully, and Progs are philosophically prohibited from doing so, there will be blood." Fantasies of violence, or does subject imagine he is Daniel Day Lewis, and has been triggered by recent news of that actor's retirement? In any case, social justice demands that subject remain under surveillance, and that appropriate mental health services be prepped. SJW Task Force, Commander, Jmorris Div. [end cryptographically enhanced message]