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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) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 14 2020, @09:14PM (5 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday August 14 2020, @09:14PM (#1036762) Journal

    You make it sound so easy to take your views someplace else.

    Take Gab, for instance. All those people kicked off of a more-or-less public forum. They went someplace else, only to see the public forums come after them. "We won't rent you server space!" Oh - money. The Woke people control a lot of financial institutions - and refuse to transfer money to them. Kinda like happened to Wikileaks and Assange. Yeah, it takes some degree of governmental cooperation to pull it off, but one can always find a sympathetic judge if one shops around.

    In today's real world, we see monopolistic megacorps deciding what people are permitted to think. And, that all good with most of you.

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  • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday August 15 2020, @12:13AM

    by Thexalon (636) on Saturday August 15 2020, @12:13AM (#1036839)

    You make it sound so easy to take your views someplace else.

    That's because it is quite easy to take your views someplace else. How easy, you ask? You're doing it right now.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @07:17AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @07:17AM (#1036990)

    So the Capitalists are suddenly all about Communism because they feel discriminated against.

    It is the most hypocritical thing in the world, since basically the dawn of recorded history conservatives have been prejudiced against anyone "different" and used to murder various groups for religious affiliation, sexual choice, skin color, and probably many more.

    And now that the private ownership of capital is supposedly working against conservatives they are suddenly all about forcing people to do what they want. And no the baker did not end up having to bake a gay cake, but he did have to bake A cake. He simply didn't have to put a "gay" message on it.

    So whine away you fucking retard hypocrite, once you contradict your own deeply held beliefs for partisan reasons (you're being fed lies), well, you're the identity politicking piece of shit.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday August 15 2020, @02:00PM (2 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday August 15 2020, @02:00PM (#1037069) Journal

      Uhhhhh - capitalism is a fairly recent development, measured in hundreds of years. If you were paying attention in school, you would know that our recorded history extends back thousands of years. Can you spell "Babylon"? Or "Greece"? How about "Egypt"? "China" and "Laos" would be good. Try "Indus". Bonus points if you can spell "Jiahu".

      So, the ills of humanity can be blamed on something other than capitalism for most of recorded history, and all of pre-history.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @11:08PM (1 child)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2020, @11:08PM (#1037644)

        Could you please go take your stupid somewhere else? You contradict yourself 1/2 the time, hold hypocritical viewpoints, and you support fascism cause "dem leftists" with no concrete rationale beyond "some people rioted" while saying mass shooters are just "lone nuts."

        It is too much, you're too old and stupid, lucky for you we have a constitution that works to protect your existence. Sadly for you, you are working hard to help fascists undermine your own protections.

        You're such a fool.