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posted by chromas on Thursday June 20 2019, @01:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the But-it-said-"breast" dept.

From The Verge, an article on autonomous weapons systems:

YouTube’s new policies designed to more aggressively tackle supremacist content have also led to some creators claiming their videos have been improperly removed or hidden in the process. They argue that YouTube is not distinguishing between actual hate content and videos that document hate groups for educational or journalistic purposes.

In militaries, there is a saying: "Friendly fire isn't."

YouTube announced on Wednesday that it was taking stronger measures to ban “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.” It was only minutes later that creators began to see channels being removed or videos pulled down — including a channel run by a history teacher, a video uploaded by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and independent journalist Ford Fischer.

Fischer is a YouTube-based reporter who covers politics, activism, and extremism. He’s shot footage at events like the Unite the Right white supremacy rally that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017, as well as gay pride parades. Some of his footage is used by documentarians and educators to study extremism and activist groups around the world, Fischer tells The Verge.

Looks like YouTube is going to demonetize aristarchus!

Previously: YouTube Clamps Down Further on Undesireable Speech


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  • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Thursday June 20 2019, @06:48AM (3 children)

    by ilPapa (2366) on Thursday June 20 2019, @06:48AM (#857795) Journal

    Youtube isn't the only railroad that passes through town, are they?

    I didn't say break up YouTube, I said break up Alphabet. And as you probably already know, there does not have to be an absolute monopoly to violate anti-trust laws.

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  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Thursday June 20 2019, @06:51AM (2 children)

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Thursday June 20 2019, @06:51AM (#857800) Journal

    Yeah, I've been through this. So where are they coming close to bumping into the law?

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:46PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 25 2019, @03:46PM (#859749)

      they aren't so much close to running into the law as close to running into society

      they are effectively a private sector STASI, that's their business model
      except that the amount of information they have is orders of magnitudes more reliable and just plain more then what the actual STASI managed to gather

      this is gonna be abused sooner or later

      • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Tuesday June 25 2019, @04:41PM

        by fustakrakich (6150) on Tuesday June 25 2019, @04:41PM (#859771) Journal

        Oh Please! Let's cut the dramatics. If "society" has a problem, it can trivially turn its collective back. Nobody's being dragged into the office and forced to confess...

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