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YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China's Communist Party
YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese-language phrases related to criticism of the country's ruling Communist Party (CCP). The company confirmed to The Verge this was happening in error and that it was looking into the issue.
"This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," said a YouTube spokesperson. The company did not elaborate on how or why this error came to be, but said it was not the result of any change in its moderation policy.
[...] Comments left under videos or in live streams that contain the words "共匪" ("communist bandit") or "五毛" ("50-cent party") are automatically deleted in around 15 seconds, though their English language translations and Romanized Pinyin equivalents are not.
[...] The accidental censorship is even more puzzling considering that YouTube is currently blocked in China, giving its parent company, Google, even less reason to censor comments critical of the CCP or apply moderation systems in accordance with Chinese censorship laws.
The automatic deletion of these phrases was highlighted on Tuesday by US technologist and former Oculus founder Palmer Luckey on Twitter. But earlier reports of the issue date back to the middle of May when they were spotted by human rights activist Jennifer Zeng. As mentioned above, though, The Verge also found complaints on YouTube's official help pages dated to October 2019.
Shadows of Project Dragonfly.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @05:46AM (7 children)
The kikes and the chinks are quite cozy, with an extremely strong military and economic alliance. It's to be expected that kikes, like Google's management, would cover up for their chink allies. It's no accident that these comments are being censored. The kikes would be more than happy to help the chink communist party, especially if it means destroying America.
I hate niggers, kikes, wetbacks, towelheads, chinks, pakis, dune coons, japs, injuns, curry munchers, gooks, and all other darkies. I only hate darkies because they all hate America and want to destroy our country and our civilized society. My hate is strong and I'm damned proud of it. In fact, my hate is getting stronger as I talk to you people. However, I'm not racist, and there's nothing racist about my comment. The left will accuse me of being racist, but it's because they know I'm telling the truth and can only try to discredit me with ad hominem logical fallacies. The left is a mouthpiece for the darkies, all of whom want to destroy America.
America will be great again when we finally admit that all darkies are our enemies and remove them from our country. This story is just more evidence that the darkies are in cahoots and nothing good comes from it.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:07AM (3 children)
Now I hate Israel as much as the next guy, but Israel did cancel its desalinization plant they were going to have China build for them due to US pressure. They appear to have picked their side.
Although they did sell our nuclear secrets to the Chinese in the past and attack the Liberty, so who knows.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday May 27 2020, @06:30AM (2 children)
We've always been at war with eastasia...
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @08:32AM
And the White supremasterbatorts and the Polacks have always been really close, I mean, really, really, close, in a way that only real men could understand. And so, when shit like this cums up, you have to ask yourself, "Do you feel lucky?", or more like, "Are you Bi-asian-curious?" If you are, please stand to the left of the Yellow line, next to your guide, the Runaway, who will lead you to your appointed quarters. Or eights. With Runaway, one never knows, since he knows so little. Why is this shitpost on the frontpage of SN? Truly an embarrasment. I blame janrinok and systemd. Wankers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @01:48PM
Have you heard of ‘manufactured consent’
Well this is manufactured cold war
(Score: 4, Touché) by bradley13 on Wednesday May 27 2020, @09:18AM (1 child)
Apparently not, since you posted AC.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @10:50AM
A freedom Chinese comrades don't have.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 27 2020, @12:36PM
(Somewhere deep in the Outback...)
Aboriginal tribal elder: (Looks up from his iPad) shit, this whitefella has rumbled us, the Abo plan to destroy the US has to be brought forward, send a message to our main co-conspirators, the Kalahari bushmen...