https://twitter.com/reckless/status/1136088138357493761 YouTube tried to explain this decision on background to us, but I made the call to ignore it because they won't go on the record. YouTube has a major harassment problem, but an even bigger problem with transparency and consistency of policy enforcement. It is not our job to paraphrase their explanations. It is their job to own their policy decisions.
Edit to update: as of half an hour ago, the channel's monetization has been suspended. https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1136341801109843968
Update update: It's even dumber than it first looked. https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1136356046887313408
You are right that it was a room full of guys, but what you may not realize is a majority was Chinese or Indian.
And pretending otherwise to allow them to skirt the censors just makes the entire censor regime seem like a hollow power play by a company trying to keep from sinking in a turbulent political time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services
s/censorship/moderation/. And no, "we host everything" is a fast way to kill a potential competitor to YouTube. The first and fastest adopters of such a platform will be the people rejected from other platforms, which rapidly turns any "we host everything" platform into a cesspool that nobody else wants to use.
I'm not advocating for zero censorship. I just think this reads like they're heading down a slippery slope.
Because the Flat Earthers need MORE evidence that the TRUTH!!! is being suppressed by Big Corporations.
0: https://medium.com/acm-cscw/you-cant-stay-here-the-efficacy-...
"But my free speech!"
"Won't they just polarize even harder?"
"Won't they just operate in the ShAdOwS?"
Except that didn't happen. The people left for Voat, and then Voat died. Banning harmful communities works time-and-time again, and it would work for YouTube if they actually did anything. For every 'guideline update' or press release they do about content moderation, they do basically nothing. The one exception was the sketchy videos with children, but their solution has been pretty heavy-handed and reactionary. I think that's the problem: YouTube has never been pro-active in moderating its platform and it shows.
Edit: Changed to more reasonable assertion.
My question remains though, every power in the history of the world has oppressed others based on some logic. (hate?)
And in my limited understanding of human nature and history, the oppressors rarely (if ever) see themselves as evil.
All it takes is for Google to label questioning Google as hate, and they can do whatever they want.
I'm just pissed off by how many people embrace this shit with no notion of the principles that whizzed past while they were having a 2 minute hate against Nazis. Sure they weren't well served and this is just a public embrace of the biases that have already been in place. They were important though.
The guy who runs a printing press should not take pride in refusing jobs for people he doesn't like, should he? Is his service, which has social impact beyond his neighborhood, supposed to be available to all or would it be a bad thing if he decides not to print newsletters for nazis, or blacks, or this or that church because their doctrine is wrong... None of these are new issues and we've thrashed this shit out before.
I indulge in sarcasm because its quicker. sorry.
