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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, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 14 2020, @07:20PM (13 children)
You're walking a thin line there. Your tech companies are working hard to sway the elections. No company or corporation has the right to silence dissenting voices. You're asking us to accept that the KGB would have been a good thing, if only it weren't run by the state.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Thexalon on Friday August 14 2020, @07:33PM (12 children)
That's just it: They aren't silencing anybody, they're forcing them to use different tools to get their message out. Those are not the same things.
And if you don't believe companies have the remove people from their privately-controlled spaces based on the content of their speech, try going on a loud, angry, and possibly obscene tirade in a fancy restaurant and see how long it takes for you to be kicked out.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 14 2020, @07:53PM (11 children)
A restaurant doesn't put itself into business by claiming to be a public forum.
A better analogy would be the town square.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday August 14 2020, @08:16PM (3 children)
Show me where YouTube claims to be a public forum.
A public space owned by the government is just about the work analogy possibly.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @12:29AM (1 child)
Youtube opened its gates wide in the early days to gain usershare.
2006 "Come, come to YouTube. We welcome all. Copyrights and standards are for old people. No, pay no attention to our competitors. Come, come to YouTube"
2013 "Ok guys, we're implementing automated DMCA requests now. I'm sure you understand."
2020 "All videos will be actively monitored to meet State Department recommended guidelines and party political requests"
The speed and alacrity of the turnabout could only be done as shamelessly in silicon valley.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @01:57AM
At one time, wasn't their tagline "Broadcast yourself"?
I don't think they would follow State Department guidelines in 2020. That is a Trump administration division. If Biden wins, then maybe. Currently, they will follow guidelines provided by ownership, within the limits of what influencers on Twitter approve of, and their vocal staff won't walk off for.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @02:24AM
Private property open to the public.
Like a shopping mall, a restaurant, etc...
It's private property. It's open to the public.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday August 14 2020, @08:45PM (6 children)
The town square is a publicly owned space, and the only people that can (legally) kick you out of the town square are the government. Social media websites are privately owned, and if you don't like their rules you can take your eyeballs and your content elsewhere. That's an important distinction.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday August 14 2020, @09:14PM (5 children)
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.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Saturday August 15 2020, @12:13AM
That's because it is quite easy to take your views someplace else. How easy, you ask? You're doing it right now.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 15 2020, @07:17AM (3 children)
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)
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)
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.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday August 16 2020, @11:14PM
Triggered, much?