YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

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Post by emsy » Tue, May 26, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division
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Re: YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

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Post by dTal » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:10 PM UTC

Reposting my comment from my own submission:

This is a reported issue[0] since last year, but is now apparently going viral [1]. 五毛 translates as "50 cent party", the somewhat well-known CCP astroturfing division.

According to the comments in [1], another apparently banned phrase is "gongfei" ( 共匪 ) , which supposedly translates as "communist bandit".

[0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/17821466?hl=en [1]https://imgur.com/gallery/KQPcEkB

Re: YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

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Post by dpbriggs » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

Don't they realize that people will just generate euphemisms?

Idiotic.

Re: YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

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Post by speechisaright9 » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:16 PM UTC

The scary part is that there is a significant contingent of people in tech who believe Youtube is morally justified in doing this because it's a private platform, and therefore and not subject to human rights standards like freedom of speech. Want to criticize an abusive regime? Build your own Youtube clone!

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Post by Freak_NL » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

dpbriggs wrote: post #3

Don't they realize that people will just generate euphemisms? Idiotic.

Doesn't that just mean Winnie-the-Pooh gets banned as well?

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Post by manuelabeledo » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:19 PM UTC

It looks to me like another example of failed automatic comment moderation. But again, it will be interpreted as big tech kneeling to the CCP.

Re: YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

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Post by thoughtstheseus » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

I’m curious what google would not censor. Perhaps I’m misunderstanding this but it looks like google is supporting a political party here. The dollar value of this must be huge.

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Post by wendyshu » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

A glossary for those interested in Chinese internet terminology: https://www.chinasmack.com/glossary#%E4%BA%94%E6%AF%9B%E5%85...

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Post by SuoDuanDao » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

Freak_NL wrote: post #5

dpbriggs wrote: post #3

Don't they realize that people will just generate euphemisms? Idiotic.

Doesn't that just mean Winnie-the-Pooh gets banned as well?

An arms race like that favours the trolls though.

I do believe the answer to an overly snoopy surveillance state is to drown it in data.

Re: YouTube deleting Palmer Luckey’s comments about CCP’s Wumao division

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Post by wendyshu » Tue, May 26, 2020, 2:26 PM UTC

manuelabeledo wrote: post #6

It looks to me like another example of failed automatic comment moderation. But again, it will be interpreted as big tech kneeling to the CCP.

How could we do a test to determine which is the true cause?