YouTube Removes 17,000 Channels for Hate Speech

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/youtube-removes-17000-channels-hate-speech-1236227

The Google-owned company also removed 100,000 videos, a spike in takedowns since its new hate speech policy went into effect in June.
YouTube says it has removed more than 17,000 channels for hate speech, representing a spike in takedowns since its new hate speech policy went into effect in June.

The Google-owned company calls the June update — in which YouTube said it would specifically prohibit videos that glorify Nazi ideology or deny documented violent events like the Holocaust — a "fundamental shift in our policies" that resulted in the takedown of more than 100,000 individual videos during the second quarter of the year. The number of comments removed during the same period doubled to over 500 million, in part due to the new hate speech policy.

YouTube said that the 30,000 videos it had removed in the last month represented 3 percent of the views that knitting videos generated during the same period.

"We've been removing harmful content since YouTube started, but our investment in this work has accelerated in recent years," the company wrote in a Sept. 3 blog post detailing its efforts to clean up its platform through the removal of videos that violate its standards.

This move that Youtube has done has been in the planning stages for years but is now being implemented.

 

[FreddyE1977]

That's all well and good. Until the day arrives that they decide that whatever YOU have to
say is hate speech. The set of criteria they're using seems as squishy as last week's tomatoes.

It's a slippery slope. And I reject the false choice that says you either support what
they're doing or you support Nazis.

 

[KeithE4]

That's all well and good. Until the day arrives that they decide that whatever YOU have to
say is hate speech. The set of criteria they're using seems as squishy as last week's tomatoes.

It's a slippery slope. And I reject the false choice that says you either support what
they're doing or you support Nazis.

YouTube is a private business. It can remove anything it wants to. The 1st Amendment does not apply to private enterprise -- just try to threaten your boss or badmouth your company to its customers and see how long you keep your job.

 

[Syfy]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/youtube-removes-17000-channels-hate-speech-1236227



This move that Youtube has done has been in the planning stages for years but is now being implemented.

Wow one hundred thousand videos removed I bet they are real proud of themselves. Most of the stuff youtube removes its sad because if you want to watch a show or listen to a radio broadcast replay on youtube you usually have to catch it very quickly after its uploaded or it will most likely be gone the next week. They do this with coast to coast am broadcasts very often.

 

[KeithE4]

Wow one hundred thousand videos removed I bet they are real proud of themselves. Most of the stuff youtube removes its sad because if you want to watch a show or listen to a radio broadcast replay on youtube you usually have to catch it very quickly after its uploaded or it will most likely be gone the next week. They do this with coast to coast am broadcasts very often.

Those sound like copyright violations, not anything we're talking about here.

 

[TheBigA]

Here's a list of Google Publisher policies about their AdWords advertising:

"Google Publisher Policies, which outline the types of content we won’t monetize through any of our publisher products. These include: Illegal Content, Child Sexual Abuse Material & Pedophilia, Sexually Explicit Content, Adult Themes in Family Content, Intellectual Property Abuse, Endangered or Threatened Species, Dangerous or Derogatory Content, Enabling Dishonest Behavior, Misrepresentative Content, Malicious or Unwanted Software, and Mail Order Brides."

Some of these criteria are pretty specific, others (such as dangerous or derogatory content) are pretty vague.

Bottom line is these are private companies and they have rules. You can't go on someone's private property and make threats to the owner. People have to understand that there's no difference legally between YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook and walking into an office building. These are not public spaces, owned by the people. Just because they have user-generated content doesn't make them public sites. Unless one of the users happens to be a government employee. That puts him into a different category.

 

[Syfy]

Those sound like copyright violations, not anything we're talking about here.

Nope you just having trouble understanding what i am trying to say apparently. When you remove someone’s videos that express a political view or otherwise view that disagrees with youtubes left wing agenda that is called censorship. Does not matter if youtube is a privately owned enterprise ...... evil enterprise I might add.

 

[TheBigA]

When you remove someone’s videos that express a political view or otherwise view that disagrees with youtubes left wing agenda that is called censorship.

Actually that's not true at all. There's no difference between posts being removed at YouTube and your posts being removed here. Violate terms of service, and you get removed.