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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.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Wednesday June 21 2017, @02:35PM
Given how little terrorism there actually is, the vast majority of people in the USA searching for "Violent Wahabbism" or whatever are white middle class students trying to write a term paper for school related to the general subject.
This kind of censorship is actually very much like gun control, brought to you by the same people in fact. Consider the people most likely to follow gun control laws are precisely the people you have to worry the least about WRT gun crime. By analogy the vast majority of school students trying to write a term paper are the least likely to be Islam-radicalized group out there (because they're already being indoctrinated as radical progressives) so they're the safest viewer group out there LOL.
I'm not sure it'll really help anyway. Did burning all the Jews books really help the nazis win anything? Would replicating that today by having the public libraries in 2017 burn all their copies of the Koran really help anything? Likewise will "digital book burning" like google censorship realistically help anything? Probably not. I'm amazed how ineffectively nazi-like google is becoming, its like they read every other word of a cookbook and now they're trying to make a feast in the kitchen and they get some little parts right but seem to be missing the big picture in so many ways. If you're gonna do a book burning or a krystalnacht in the traditional sense in digital locale, at least get it freaking right, don't half-ass it. Google is like developmentally delayed kids trying to act like nazis. At least stop licking the window while you're burning books.