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If that's the case, shouldn't Youtube ban words like 'cuck', 'libtard' and 'snowflake'?
Yes. I wonder why the Thought Police are going so easy on "Hate".
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#62All youtube comments should end with ‘Communists Bandits’. Digital civil disobedience.
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#63Youtube is in a tough spot. They will be blamed:
- if they don't take down speech some consider hateful
- if they take down speech some do not consider hateful
共匪 is seen as an insult by a group, but others do not. If Youtube bans nothing, then hate speech thrives and they get bad PR. If Youtube bans anything anyone flags as hate speech, then they become de facto as censorship agents for foreign powers. Anything critical can be seen as offensive and taken down by CCP or Russia.
Youtube is more and more siding towards removing content. I wonder, can US regulators do something about it?
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#65Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.
They look at their bank accounts.
That doesn't justify their behavior - it condemns it.
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No, they're pro-people-who-call-themselves-Communist-and-also-have-a-lot-of-geopolitical-power-and-market-share. China is most certainly a capitalist state through and through, and Google is a money-grubbing company whose sole motive is profit. It really isn't hard to talk about these things in frank terms without resorting to silly culture-war-style name-calling.
Google left the mainland Chinese market long ago and all of its services are blocked there.
The most likely explanation is that some mainlander inside Google has been pushing for this with the "this is racist and hurting the feelings of the Chinese people" argument.
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#67Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.
It might be easy to say this, but I believe I would quit if I was asked to implement something like that. But perhaps I'd be different if I were paid $300k a year. (I sure hope not, though)
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#68I find it so ironic that the reason for censoring a slur against communism is because a capitalist company stands to lose revenue from angering the government of China.
What could be more American than selling out your values in the name of making more money?
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#69We never had free speech online. Only the illusion of it.
I've noticed, especially recently, that most websites that allow commenting will shadow ban comments they disagree with, even if it's not trolling or abusive.
The scary part is that most people don't even see this and just assume that all of the comments they see are the only ones on the site. This can create the false sense that a larger number of people have a particular viewpoint.
This sort of censorship and controlling behavior absolutely effects the outcome of our elections and is much worse than anything Russia can even dream of.
The Chinese government knows this well and in addition to online troll campaigns, they fund our media companies directly and will pull funding if these companies don't toe the line.
With Covid ripping through the profits of many of these media companies, now is the time they will buy them up in mass.
We all should be prepared for an online future of CCP controlled media and influence.
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#70The corner cases is why reddit cmostly using armies of humans for censorship aka moderation - there are auto-report and auto-censor bots only for the most egregious cases.
(former mod for a top subreddit)