YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

Post by incompatible » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:49 AM UTC

afavour wrote: post #3

Not sure what a thinly resourced piece like this is doing so high up on HN. There’s really very little evidence that this has anything to do with racial slurs. From a quick read: last June, the channel was banned for “harmful and dangerous” content. The ban was removed in under 24 hours. YouTube has not confirmed the reason. And yet: > Experts suspect that it was the usage of words like "black" and "white" that confu…

Post by himinlomax » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:53 AM UTC

andrewzah wrote: post #5

“ The researchers now suggest that social-media platforms should incorporate chess language in their algorithms to avoid future incidents like this.” Or maybe don’t automate banning YouTube channels via nebulous black boxes? Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?

Post by jojobas » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 12:55 AM UTC

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #36

jojobas wrote: post #17

Delegating prosecution of possible hate speech to commercial entities was always going to be bad. Youtube is essentially a public forum with audience of entire countries, where the people who run it choose what gets amplified, what gets shunned and what get outright blocked. Who would be happy with a private entity deciding the future mindsets at this scale?

That is it exactly what I’ve been saying about twitterführer Dorsey ever since he blocked the NY Post. Though in his case he went so overboard with banning and blocking everyone with a viewpoint he didn’t agree with that he made all the other world leaders take notice and be concerned that they could get blocked just as easily. I expect that after the next G7 summit we will start to see the social media companies bro…

Post by lwouis » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 1:02 AM UTC

throwawayboise wrote: post #9

andrewzah wrote: post #5

“ The researchers now suggest that social-media platforms should incorporate chess language in their algorithms to avoid future incidents like this.” Or maybe don’t automate banning YouTube channels via nebulous black boxes? Or can advertisers stop being afraid of anything and everything?

Your comment has been moderated for racist language ("black boxes").

Post by vecplane » Mon, Feb 22, 2021, 1:08 AM UTC

lwouis wrote: post #47

throwawayboise wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your comment has been moderated for racist language ("black boxes").

You kid but i've received 2 pull-requests on my open-source project, which only goal was to replace "Blacklist" with "Blocklist" in the app preferences. I don't receive many PRs. This is a real trend.