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posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 14 2020, @04:28PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-picks-what-gets-banned? dept.

YouTube bans videos containing hacked information that could interfere with the election:

As Democrats and Republicans prepare to hold their national conventions starting next week, YouTube on Thursday announced updates to its policies on deceptive videos and other content designed to interfere with the election.

The world's largest video platform, with more than 2 billion users a month, will ban videos containing information that was obtained through hacking and could meddle with elections or censuses. That would include material like hacked campaign emails with details about a candidate. The update follows the announcement of a similar rule that Google, which owns YouTube, unveiled earlier this month banning ads that contain hacked information. Google will start enforcing that policy Sept. 1.

YouTube also said it will take down videos that encourage people to interfere with voting and other democratic processes. For example, videos telling people to create long lines at polling places in order to stifle the vote won't be allowed.

[...] YouTube has also tried to secure its platform from foreign actors. Last week, the company said it banned almost 2,600 channels linked to China as part of investigations into "coordinated influence operations" on the site. YouTube also took down dozens of channels linked to Russia and Iran that had apparent ties to influence campaigns.


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  • (Score: 2, Interesting) by HammeredGlass on Friday August 14 2020, @07:43PM (6 children)

    by HammeredGlass (12241) on Friday August 14 2020, @07:43PM (#1036702)

    Congress fucked the USPS. It's not the President's job to fix their mess. He should not be dumping taxpayer dollars down that bottomless pit of a badly setup pension funding requirement which the USPS is uniquely obligated to pre-pay for longer than any other pension system in this country.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @07:59PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @07:59PM (#1036717)

    Lol The President is openly saying he won't fund USPS to make sure ballots aren't delivered and you are here licking the shit stain off his ass.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @08:11PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @08:11PM (#1036724)

      Elections are a state matter. If the Democrat governors want to rig the elections in their favor, then they can buy a reply permit and pay for the postage.
      All of us small-d democrats must oppose the Democrat plan of unsupervised voting, as we opposed the Republican scheme of requiring ID to vote.

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 14 2020, @08:18PM

        by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday August 14 2020, @08:18PM (#1036729) Journal
      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @08:23PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @08:23PM (#1036734)

        You mean I have to go find and then buy an overpriced postage stamp in order to make my voice heard even though my dumb ass mailman will probably misdeliver my ballot to my neighbors like he's done for the last 20 years? Fuck that.

      • (Score: 3, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @10:28PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @10:28PM (#1036799)

        If the Democrat governors want to rig the elections

        Perhaps you or Donnie could provide evidence that mail-in voting is subject to widespread fraud. You're basically accusing both the postal workers and the local police of colluding to overthrow democracy.

        I'd expect this shit in some 3rd world "shithole country", not the USA.

        But hey this is America, the greatest country on earth. Or so they keep telling us. And yet one side would have you believe the postal service is corrupt.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @10:30PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @10:30PM (#1036800)

        Unsupervised voting? What a total non-issue.