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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.
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!
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!
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?
We should see if we can discuss that party on youtube, or if wu3 mao2 dang3 gets censored. According to the article, every mention of wu3 mao2 dang3 is being suppressed.
https://www.chinasmack.com/glossary#%E4%BA%94%E6%AF%9B%E5%85...
Don't they realize that people will just generate euphemisms? Idiotic.
This still chills discourse. The cognitive load of staying on top of an accelerating treadmill of euphemisms shouldn’t be discounted.
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?
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!
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.
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!
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!
The problem as we've seen is that giving unlimited freedom of speech on these social platforms results in very bad things as state actors use it to incite social unrest. Of course, in protecting Europe and America's ability to remain safe democracies you also end up protecting China's ability to be a dictatorship. Keep in mind that western governments generally support China so you'd have a private company go against…