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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 DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 21 2017, @06:48PM (7 children)
When?
Table 1: Far Right Violent Extremist-Motivated Attacks that Resulted in Fatalities, September 12, 2001 through December 31,
2016, as reported in the U.S. Extremist Crime Database (ECDB)
White Supremacist member of Aryan
Brotherhood killed a man
9/15/2001 Mesquite Texas 1
Same white supremacist as previous case but
another victim a few weeks later
10/4/2001 Mesquite Texas 1
White supremacist murdered an African American 3/21/2002 Portland Oregon 1
White supremacist skinhead murdered a
transgender person
4/10/2002 El Paso Texas 1
Far right violent extremists murdered 3 fast food
workers (one Native American and two Hispanic)
5/19/2002 Mesa Arizona 3
Neo-Nazi murdered a gay man 6/12/2002 Tucson Arizona 1
Appendix II: Violent Extremist Attacks in the
United States that Resulted in Fatalities,
September 12, 2001 to December 31, 2016
Page 30 GAO-17-300 Countering Violent Extremism
Summary of ECDB
Incident Description Date City State
Number
of Victim
Deaths
Anti-government “Sovereign Citizen” murdered an
Ohio police officer
8/2/2002 Massillon Ohio 1
Two white supremacist skinheads murdered a
man
8/30/2002 Las Vegas Nevada 1
White supremacist skinhead beat a man to death
outside a diner
9/1/2002 St. Louis Missouri 1
White supremacist murdered bisexual man 12/14/2002 Salinas California 1
White supremacist gang murdered a homeless
man as part of a gang initiation
3/23/2003 Tacoma Washington 1
Anti-government militiaman shot and killed a
Michigan state trooper
7/7/2003 Fremont Michigan 1
White supremacist shot and killed 6 co-workers at
Lockheed Martin Plant
7/8/2003 Meridian Mississippi 6
Neo-Nazi killed sex-offender priest 8/23/2003 Shirley Massachusetts 1
Anti-government “constitutionalist” killed 2 in
standoff over land
12/8/2003 Abbeville South Carolina 2
White supremacist killed a man while “hunting
down Mexicans”
1/9/2004 Dateland Arizona 1
White supremacists murdered two homeless men 4/15/2005 Hingham Massachusetts 2
Six white supremacist inmates beat another
prisoner to death
10/14/2005 Kingman Arizona 1
White supremacist skinhead murdered an African
American woman
12/16/2005 Mays Landing New Jersey 1
Neo-Nazi murdered a gay man 3/23/2006 New Port Richey Florida 1
White supremacist inmate killed his African
American cellmate
11/13/2006 Chipley Florida 1
White supremacist murders Hispanic man in
convenience store after argument
7/2/2007 Lubbock Texas 1
White supremacist murdered Lubbock, TX police
officer
8/15/2007 Brandon Florida 1
Two white supremacists murdered a homeless
man
9/3/2007 Reno Nevada 1
Two white supremacists murdered a gay man as
gang initiation rite
10/26/2007 Goldsby Oklahoma 1
Skinhead gang murdered an Hispanic man 12/4/2007 Yucaipa California 1
Middle school skinhead student shot and killed
gay peer
2/12/2008 Oxnard California 1
White supremacist teens beat a Hispanic man to
death
7/12/2008 Shenandoah Pennsylvania 1
Anti-government violent extremist killed 2 at
Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church
7/27/2008 Knoxville Tennessee 2
Appendix II: Violent Extremist Attacks in the
United States that Resulted in Fatalities,
September 12, 2001 to December 31, 2016
Page 31 GAO-17-300 Countering Violent Extremism
Summary of ECDB
Incident Description Date City State
Number
of Victim
Deaths
White man obsessed with Nazism murdered an
African American man and a Hispanic man
8/1/2008 Bristol Pennsylvania 2
White supremacist teens murdered an
Ecuadorian immigrant
11/8/2008 Patchogue New York 1
Two anti-government violent extremists planted a
bomb inside a bank, killing 2
12/12/2008 Woodburn Oregon 2
Far rightist murdered a homeless man 1/19/2009 Woodstock Illinois 1
White supremacist killed 2 immigrants 1/21/2009 Brockton Massachusetts 1
Same perpetrator as previous case in Brockton,
MA killed a homeless man later the same day
1/21/2009 Brockton Massachusetts 1
Neo-Nazi murdered Wesleyan University Jewish
student
5/6/2009 Middleton Connecticut 1
White supremacists murdered 2 immigrants in
home invasion
5/30/2009 Arivaca Arizona 2
Anti-government Sovereign Citizen murdered
abortion provider Dr. George Tiller
5/31/2009 Wichita Kansas 1
White supremacist killed Holocaust museum
guard
6/10/2009 Washington District of
Colombia
1
White supremacist and associate killed a child
molester
6/30/2009 Carmichael California 1
White supremacist murdered his stepfather to
gain “street cred”
7/28/2009 Paradise California 1
White supremacist murdered a convicted sex
offender
8/28/2009 N. Palm Springs California 1
Two white supremacist skinheads shoot at
interracial couple and killed female
10/3/2009 Phoenix Arizona 1
Anti-government violent extremist flew a small
plane into an Austin, TX office building with U.S.
Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office in it to
protest the IRS and the government
2/18/2010 Austin Texas 1
Neo-Nazi killed an African American man 3/29/2010 South Huntington Pennsylvania 1
White supremacist shot and wounded 4 women
then killed a man
4/20/2010 Wichita Falls Texas 1
Two Sovereign Citizen members killed two police
officers
5/21/2010 West Memphis Arkansas 2
Prison gang white supremacists murdered
another inmate for not objecting to having an
African American cellmate
3/1/2011 Atlanta Georgia 1
White supremacist teenagers run over and kill an
African American man in a motel parking lot
6/26/2011 Jackson Mississippi 1
Two white supremacists murdered a 53-year old
African American man
10/4/2011 Eureka California 1
Appendix II: Violent Extremist Attacks in the
United States that Resulted in Fatalities,
September 12, 2001 to December 31, 2016
Page 32 GAO-17-300 Countering Violent Extremism
Summary of ECDB
Incident Description Date City State
Number
of Victim
Deaths
Same perpetrators as previous case in Eureka,
CA; perpetrators killed a teenager they thought
was Jewish
10/7/2011 Corvallis Oregon 1
Neo-Nazi killed 6 at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin 8/5/2012 Oak Creek Wisconsin 6
Two neo-Nazis and a third associate murdered a
local drug-dealer
1/9/2013 Verona Kentucky 1
Anti-government “survivalist” boarded a school
bus with a gun and demanded a student be given
to him; he then shot and killed the bus driver
1/29/2013 Midland City Alabama 1
Two white supremacists killed a husband and
wife because the husband was a sex offender
7/21/2013 Jonesville South Carolina 2
Anti-government extremist kills Transportation
Security Administration officer at Los Angeles
International Airport
11/1/2013 Los Angeles California 1
White supremacist shot and killed 2 at a Jewish
Community Center
4/13/2014 Overland Park Kansas 2
Same perpetrator as previous attack in Overland
Park; perpetrator murdered another person at a
Jewish retirement center later the same day
4/13/2014 Leawood Kansas 1
Anti-government married couple killed 2 officers
during shooting rampage on Las Vegas strip
6/8/2014 Las Vegas Nevada 2
Same perpetrators as previous attack in Las
Vegas; perpetrators murdered another person
later the same day
6/8/2014 Las Vegas Nevada 1
Anti-government extremist Eric Frein murdered a
state trooper.
9/12/2014 White Haven Pennsylvania 1
White supremacist Dylann Roof shot and killed 9
African Americans in a shooting at an African
American church in Charleston, SC
6/17/2015 Charleston South Carolina 9
Right-wing extremist opened fire and killed 2
young women among patrons during an Amy
Schumer movie
7/23/2015 Lafayette Louisiana 2
White supremacist shot and killed 9 at his
community college
10/1/2015 Roseburg Oregon 9
Anti-government survivalist extremist killed 3 at
Planned Parenthood clinic including a responding
police officer
11/27/2015 Colorado Springs Colorado 3
Number of
incidents: 62
(Score: 2, Offtopic) by Unixnut on Wednesday June 21 2017, @07:13PM (4 children)
> incidents: 62
So 62 incidents in 15 years, most killing 1 or 2 people. The formatting of your post is awful, but I think the largest I saw was 9 people. To be generous we can say on average 3 people were killed per incident, so for 62 incidents you are looking at 186 dead, in total over a 15 year period to these loons.
So in essence, this "other side" managed less than a couple of hours of ISIS work in 15 years? Very poor performance, I give a 2/5 for effort though. Besides, none of that qualified as "En masse", "Christian", or "organised by a church" or even religiously motivated. From what I can see most of it is motivated by race. Anti-government extremist, skinhead, neo-nazi, white supremacist, etc.. are not necessarily Christians.
In fact, considering that Christianity started in the middle east (not exactly whitey central), and that one of the first Christians were the Ethiopians (not exactly known for their fair skin), I don't see how you could be a white supremacist and/or neo-nazi and a Christian at the same time.
Anti-government types are generally brutally anti-religion as well, seeing it as just another form of control/government.
All you managed to show is that the sum total of all other extremists combined barely register on the shit-o-meter compared to what Muslim extremists are doing. It also tells me is that the USA is so fucked up that it is an entirely separate class of problem to the rest of the world, quite frankly.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday June 21 2017, @07:54PM (2 children)
Here's the full report. [gao.gov]
It does the math for us:
Right-Wing Attacks:
Number of
incidents: 62
Total
victims: 106
Islamic Attacks:
Number of
Incidents: 23
Total
Victims: 119
(Score: 2) by KGIII on Wednesday June 21 2017, @08:24PM
I suspect that is for a very small part of the globe.
"So long and thanks for all the fish."
(Score: 2) by Unixnut on Wednesday June 21 2017, @08:44PM
Aaah, thank you! Much better.
The data however is US only. The USA has very many miles of sea between the middle east and the majority of Muslims. Those suffering most are in the middle east, and to a lesser extent in Europe and Africa. Ideally would need data on the whole world to do a proper like for like comparison, but I suspect the number of victims due to Islamic extremism would still be magnitudes bigger than the rest.
However even within the USA, I notice the records actually start on the 15th September, ignoring 9/11, which was one of the biggest Islamic attacks on US soil. if we take into account the years 2001 to 2015 as a whole, then the true numbers look like this:
Right-Wing/Anti-government/Racist Attacks:
Number of
incidents: 62
Total
victims: 106
Islamic Attacks:
Number of
Incidents: 24
Total
Victims: 3,115
Quite a bit different, eh? I didn't update the victims for the whole of 2001 for the other attacks, but if in a period of 15 years there were 106 victims, we can say there were around 7 victims per year. So we can up the victims to 113 for Right-Wing/Anti-government/Racist attacks (which again, does not necessary mean religiously motivated attacks).
On context, actually, 7 victims per year from the other extremist nuts in a country of ~150,000,000 people is actually pretty good. There will always be some tiny percentage of nuts in any population.
(Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday June 22 2017, @05:16PM
I get that DeathMonkey was conflating Christianity and white supremacy, but you just stepped way too far in the other direction. There are plenty of Christian white supremacists, and a good number of them believe that modern white people are actually the descendants of the ancient Hebrews. [wikipedia.org] This at least adds some loony context to all of those blue-eyed Jesus portraits. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday June 21 2017, @09:07PM
Are you assuming all these white supremacists are Christians? Because the word "Christian" doesn't appear in that list once and that was what I was under the impression we were talking about.
Or has somebody redefined "white supremacist" as "absolutely must be a Christian"?
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 21 2017, @10:54PM
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/ [thereligionofpeace.com]
Daily statistics on the number of kills in this religious war.
During ramadan in 2017, so far, there have been 149 recorded muslim based attacks resuling in at least 1378 deaths in the name of islam.
On the other side, there has been 1 attack and 1 death by a non-islamic party.