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YouTube initiating new policies that could be disastrous for just about everyone
Tactical Nuke:
Metokur is the man for informing me of this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ8RIAHx5TI&feature=push-u-sub&attr_tag=G7Tpdsqg2tNFl2F5-6
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https://twitter.com/jordanbpeterson?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
https://www.engadget.com/2017/08/01/youtube-isolate-offensive-videos/
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long story short
Jordan Peterson, famous Toronto professor and Kermit the Frog incarnate, got not only access to his YouTube account blocked off, but his GMail shut down
no explanation was given whatsoever for the removal and when he tried to appeal the "claim" he got denied
both are back as they once were but Peterson is still confused as to what happened as he hasn't heard anything informative from Google
here's what stuff gets scary
--- Quote from: Engadget ---For videos that contain "controversial religious or supremacist content" but don't violate any of YouTube's policies, they'll now be placed in a "limited state." YouTube said, "The videos will remain on YouTube behind an interstitial, won't be recommended, won't be monetized, and won't have key features including comments, suggested videos, and likes." It says that the limited state will start being applied to desktop versions in the coming weeks and will hit mobile versions shortly thereafter.
YouTube said that these changes are just the beginning and it will be sharing more about its work in the months ahead. "Altogether, we have taken significant steps over the last month in our fight against online terrorism. But this is not the end. We know there is always more work to be done," it said.
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holy stuff
/discuss
Red Spy:
online terrorism holy forget
Conan:
he has it back, my guess is it probably was a bad match by whatever ai system they have filtering the videos n stuff
http://www.dailywire.com/news/19225/censorship-jordan-peterson-claims-youtube-now-ben-shapiro
the system likely exists to filter out CIA things and actual extremist stuff and prevent straight gore from hitting the front page, and since its driven by ai it probably will forget up here and there. i'm not an expert on this though
Tactical Nuke:
YouTube and Google, in general, tend to be
uh
liberal in their deciding what is and isn't controversial, as shown by the adpocalypse
this time it's serious because if you experience what Peterson did and you aren't a big person like he is, you won't have your GMail to appeal to Google with, so you're basically forgeted
Electrk.:
can we have an anti-trust lawsuit on google already? it's long overdue
the EU already did it over there; it should be our turn now