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YouTube initiating new policies that could be disastrous for just about everyone
PhantOS:
--- Quote from: Mr Unicode on August 02, 2017, 12:16:40 AM ---Not all liberals are bad, however the majority of modern liberalism is authoritarian, pro-censorship, like using power to get their way and pretty much the opposite of what liberals were IMO.
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the majority of modern liberalism and modern conservatism and modern anything is normal. either way 'liberalism' is not the reason why youtube is having its ad money revoked by the companies that pay it
SeventhSandwich:
>online terrorism
>controversial religious or supremacist ideology
It sounds pretty much like they're bending the rules a bit to crack down on Jihadi propagandists on Youtube. I can't think of anything else in the modern world that can simultaneously be classified as 'online terrorism' and 'controversial religious ideology'.
Mr.Noßody:
--- Quote from: SeventhSandwich on August 02, 2017, 02:52:05 AM ---It sounds pretty much like they're bending the rules a bit to crack down on Jihadi propagandists on Youtube. I can't think of anything else in the modern world that can simultaneously be classified as 'online terrorism' and 'controversial religious ideology'.
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I'm skeptical as to how far they might bend those rules. Especially seeing as how this is mostly being handled by an algorithm that scans for keywords.
Will it have context sensitivity? Can and will they be able to change the parameters?
It feels like the Net Neutrality argument claiming it's a good thing used to fight against something thats bad when it really means signing the internet away.
I dont trust these kinds of shifts anymore.
Ceist:
we must create a new internet, and rid ourselves of this one. we will be a phoenix born anew.
SeventhSandwich:
--- Quote from: Mr.Noßody on August 02, 2017, 02:58:41 AM ---I'm skeptical as to how far they might bend those rules. Especially seeing as how this is mostly being handled by an algorithm that scans for keywords.
Will it have context sensitivity? Can and will they be able to change the parameters?
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I'm actually very interested in that question from a machine-learning perspective. I wonder if they're just going to throw videos at a long list of keywords, or whether they have some sort of machine learning algorithm that's getting supervised-trained with thousands of videos of legitimate terrorist propaganda.
More than likely, it's the former, since predictive accuracy isn't that big of a deal when the only reason they're doing this is for PR.