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YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by reaperducer »

vecplane wrote: post #49
lwouis wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Political correctness run amok! My company has now official guidelines that discourage 'whitelist' and 'blacklist' in new features, but I wonder how long before they make everyone go back and refactor these names. Git 'master' branch derangement is another example of this BS.

See also: Master and slave in device controllers.

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

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.

don't forget about moving away from "master" git branches

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by reaperducer »

whatshisface wrote: post #48
lwouis wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Funny thing is, since nobody ever submits PRs to change it in the opposite direction, even one person going around on GitHub would be virtually guaranteed to eventually change all of them.

even one person going around on GitHub would be virtually guaranteed to eventually change all of them

It only took one complaint from someone in Canada to get Dire Straits' "Money for Nothing" cut in half on SiriusXM for an entire continent.

(Though you can still hear the full version on the deep tracks channel).)

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by LocalH »

It should be a criminal act to ban someone from your platform without pointing exactly to why they were banned. "Oh but we can't expose details of our ban process for people to game" Bullshit. They just don't want to have to answer to anyone for cutting them off.

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by jonathankoren »

Isn't this old? We were just talking about this very problem seven months ago. It's hard to believe Youtube didn't put in some hack or retrained for chess to avoid this high profile embarrassment in seven months.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23729156

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by colejohnson66 »

ttt0 wrote: post #26
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…

And what do you do to force them to confirm the reason? That's right, get it to be so high up on HN.

Or get someone big enough that they can ask YouTube on Twitter WTF is going on. Like Markiplier in November 2019. He asked his fans to spam emojis in a livestream. So they did and were banned for spam. Their appeals - which YouTube says are reviewed by actual humans - were denied. It wasn’t until he went to Twitter that the problem was fixed.

https://twitter.com/markiplier/status/1193218509804695552

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by twirlock »

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…

>A lot of questions raised and an article that has no interest in answering them

Kind of like Alphabet.

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by jaimex2 »

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.

I just block people from the project who submit PRs like that.

Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by [deleted] »

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?

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Re: YouTube blocked chess channel after mistaken detection of racial slurs

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Post by root_axis »

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?

Or maybe stop expecting corporate ad delivery networks to care about anything other than delivering ads.
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