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Google Announces New Measures To Fight Extremist YouTube Videos (cnet.com)
An anonymous reader quotes CNET:
YouTube will take new steps to combat extremist- and terrorist-related videos, parent company Google said Sunday. "While we and others have worked for years to identify and remove content that violates our policies, the uncomfortable truth is that we, as an industry, must acknowledge that more needs to be done. Now," Kent Walker, Google's general counsel, said in an op-ed column in the London-based Financial Times.
Here's CNET's summary of the four new measure Google is implementing:
Here's CNET's summary of the four new measure Google is implementing:
- Use "more engineering resources to apply our most advanced machine learning research to train new 'content classifiers' to help us more quickly identify and remove such content."
- Expand YouTube's Trusted Flagger program by adding 50 independent, "expert" non-governmental organizations to the 63 groups already part of it. Google will offer grants to fund the groups.
- Take a "tougher stance on videos that do not clearly violate our policies -- for example, videos that contain inflammatory religious or supremacist content." Such videos will "appear behind a warning" and will not be "monetized, recommended or eligible for comments or user endorsements."
- Expand YouTube's efforts in counter-radicalization. "We are working with Jigsaw to implement the 'redirect method' more broadly. ... This promising approach harnesses the power of targeted online advertising to reach potential Isis recruits, and redirects them towards anti-terrorist videos that can change their minds about joining."
Extremist videos==oliticaly Incorrect Videos, in disagreement with extreme left wing progressivist Mafia
They will be labeled as racist/sexist/homophobic whatever-nazis. When logical argumentation becomes 'hate speech', it's game over for the enlightenment.
This means no conservative pundits Muslims beheading is ok but anyone getting even close to the truth about the left and career politicians DAS IST VERBOTEN!!!
Well, by liberal Silicon Valley rules, it will work like this:
If they criticize Christianity, then it's free speech
If they criticize Islam, then it's racism and hate speech.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Pay them a bounty. You'll get a lot more participation. And if they don't keep their "correctly identified" ratio high enough, they get dumped. Money talks.
We've seen it work with everything from rewards for reporting crime to bug bounties.
But it will be to hard to police!" Seriously? That's not an excuse. You're supposed to be so good at AI - have AI look for patterns of abuse of the bounty system. Or is it time to admit that your "targeted ads platform" isn't all that capable after years of work, showing people ads for stuff they already bought, etc? Same problem as Amazon?
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Nonsense - you're either an agnostic or an atheist. Agnostics say that they don't know for sure one way or another whether god exists - atheists say god doesn't exist. Which is why Richard Dawkins isn't really an atheist - he's "almost certain." - which makes him a nervous agnostic fence-sitter publicity hound who's trying to have it both ways so that if god does exist, hopefully god won't be as pissed off with him as with the real atheists.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Pretty much every comment here is "They'll remove things they shouldn't!" or "They won't remove things they should!"
Maybe we should let them actually do something before deciding if they're doing it wrong or not.
Personally I'd rather err on the side of removing content that incites violence.
Who determines what extremism is?
Kathy Griffith's "beheading" of Trump anyone?
How about that Broadway play that depicts assassination of the President in the manner of Julius Caesar?
What about those on the left that call for killing all republicans or all conservatives?
Will Google and the other companies stop those videos?
When does this enter into the area of preventing free speech?
Don't censor at all, and if you feel you have to censor, then make sure you censor EVERYONE, thus ensuring the demise of your platform.
They will be labeled as racist/sexist/homophobic whatever-nazis. When logical argumentation becomes 'hate speech', it's game over for the enlightenment.
Or MGTOW or feminist videos? Gun control versus second amendment affecionados. Or Bill Maher, and whoever hates him? A lot of these folk have an intense hatred towards each other. Be it liberal, or conservative.
We live in a world where some folks want a whole lot of speech muzzled, and the pro muzzlers are more than happy to call their antagonists hate speech.
They better have their policies very tightly defined, because it becomes a muzzling of controversy otherwise.
The shepherds did so well protecting the flock that the sheep no longer believed that wolves existed.
We live in a world where we have gay marriage, but the reason is "the writers of the constitution protected it". Where Heller was a 5-4 decision, with 4 of the judges willing to assume that the 2nd amendment has no legal meaning whatsoever. A world where the plain language that allows the president to block entry to groups of people is ignored because of the assumption that the president is a racist- despite the fact that being a racist isn't illegal.
Regardless of your political position, you have to recognize that this attempt to change the laws via the courts instead of legislation is frightening. And if you look around, you'll see that logic being applied all throughout the left- they've divided groups into "people of color" and "non-people of color" (whites), and also claim that *there's no such thing as being white*. Denying the existence of a group is not a good first step towards relations! The same groups allow "no whites allowed" ceremonies and days, all without using the word "white" (which again, they don't believe exists).
Given that this is upsetting to almost all Americans, who were raised believing that race doesn't matter (or at least shouldn't ever matter legally, in employment, etc.) and everyone is equal (at the VERY least under the law), it is very convenient for this same faction to shut down debate by calling everyone who disagrees with them racist- going as far as trying to redefine racism so it can't be applied to white people (who don't exist, except when we make regulations against them).
So yes, this will be used to shut down totally conservative videos. It will be used to shut down content from people who are on a blacklist. It will be used to censor heavily, and it will be used much more preferentially against conservatives in the west than Islamist propaganda videos and other recruitment materials, as eager SJW types line up to fight the group that they have been whipped into a frenzy against.
That's correct. However, in order for broken ideas to die, they must be challenged. In order for that to happen, they must be expressed. People aren't static creatures. They must learn, and, many times, re-learn throughout their lives. Each generation also must have this opportunity or they'll lead us right back into the dark ages again. Youtube's new policy helps set a narrative that favors certain sets of ideas (doctrines) by allowing them continued ad funding and commentary, while effectively silencing others. While google can do what they like with the site, this policy is not good for the user base nor society as a whole.
'Extremism' is a relative term and has nothing to do with correctness. It's just a generic of blasphemy law and 'hate speech' law.
If a minority male asks a White man for sex, and the White refuses because the former is a minority, the White is criminally guilty of racism and gay bigotry? Because that's what the end game to all this is.
I look at it as simple as this: the man sign means the washroom is set up to accommodate people with penises (e.g. urinals). The woman sign means the bathroom is set up to accomodate people with vaginas (e.g. sanitary napkin disposal). Pictures of vaginas and penises are not used because of Victorian prudishness. Plus 20 years ago people were more intelligent and didn't need which of the signs has a penis and which one has a vagina pointed out to them.
If neither sign is on the door the bathroom is probably set up to accommodate penises and vaginas well. Although I have also seen such bathrooms set up for neither. You takes your chances.
Please use the bathroom configured for your genitalia. This isn't a prudish request, it's a logical one. Lest you be menstruating and find nowhere to place your used tampon.
Why, in 2017, I have to point out something as simple as this that my 7 year old understands to adults I don't know.
All you do when you challenge obviously broken ideas is give them credence, because people tend to think "well, if they're fighting the idea so hard instead of just ignoring it, there must be something there."
Remember the baker that refused to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple? The couple should have just walked away and said "your loss." Instead, they made a huge stink, and crowdsourcing campaigns raised over $800,000 for the bakery owners - more than enough for them to retire.
As for what's good for society as a whole, that's for society to decide. That's why we have laws criminalizing hate speech, juvenile porn, etc. The first amendment only applies to attempts by government to impose censorship, and even there society and the courts have held that some restrictions are both reasonable and necessary.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Blasphemy, so a cartoon is reported.
Talks on the history of a communist party or its leadership? Banned.
Book reviews by authors that SJW don't like? Banned?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Sorry, rant all you want, the only way you will eliminate religion is to eliminate humanity. Seeking an understanding of "why" for life, the universe, and everything through religion is an integral part of human nature. You may as well aim your rant at human emotions. They are more at the root of mankind's problems than a belief in a Creator, and have about an equal chance of being eliminated without eliminating humanity.
It's not political. Flagging videos you disagree with is a tactic used by all factions, regardless of politics. There's been a lot of upset in the youtube atheist community lately over videos being taken down and at least one channel being closed due to a mass-flagging campaign organised by a Muslim organisation who are trying to rid the site of blasphemy.