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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.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday August 14 2020, @09:01PM (2 children)
And by that exact same logic, any system for filtering phone spam is bad and wrong - after all, the spammers are just sharing their opinion that they have something very important to tell you about your car's extended warranty, and why should that get blocked and your speech not get blocked?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @09:11PM
Not at all, if it is the end user choosing not to listen.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 14 2020, @09:57PM
The phone company doesn't block spammers, they ring through then, after receiving the call, I can block that number from ringing through the next time. Nothing done proactively by the phone company.