YouTube is Deleting Comments With Two Phrases That Insult China's Communist Party

[DEAD7]

YouTube is Deleting Comments With Two Phrases That Insult China's Communist Party

YouTube is automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese-language phrases related to criticism of the country's ruling Communist Party (CCP).
The company confirmed to The Verge this was happening in error and that it was looking into the issue.


From a report:
"This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," said a YouTube spokesperson. The company did not elaborate on how or why this error came to be, but said it was not the result of any change in its moderation policy. But if the deletions are the result of a simple mistake, then it's one that's gone unnoticed for six months. The Verge found evidence that comments were being deleted as early as October 2019, when the issue was raised on YouTube's official help pages and multiple users confirmed that they had experienced the same problem. Comments left under videos or in live streams that contain the words that mean "communist bandit" or "50-cent party" are automatically deleted in around 15 seconds, though their English language translations and Romanized Pinyin equivalents are not.

 

[DEAD7]

Communist...

 

[Dorian Breh]

But what's the problem here? Google can sell access and special privileges to whoever they'd like.

Even genocidal anthropomorphic honey bears can buy the ability to influence what the public sees and is allowed to say.

If you don't like the free market then go to a country that doesn't have it like Saudi Arabia or something.

 

[Regular_P]

I thought the private sector was allowed to make its own rules regarding this stuff?

 

[MoneyTron]

I thought the private sector was allowed to make its own rules regarding this stuff?

Not anymore.

 

[ShaDynasty]

Free speech is important. China's attitude towards free speech is bad enough in China. It's not desirable to have them dictating what can and can't be said in the rest of the world too.

 

[ORDER_66]

Wow... everyone has a price...

 

[Xcoyote]

Jesus fukking Christ, Americans are easily the most propagandized people on earth, imagine actually believing the biggest cheerleaders for regime change in China are apparently now censoring "criticism" for the CPC

 

[ShaDynasty]

China is basically taking over hong kong tomorrow. The west doesn't flinch at these scumbags.

 

[Xcoyote]

China is basically taking over hong kong tomorrow. The west doesn't flinch at these scumbags.

The West still has colonial dreams about that place,they think it still "belongs" to them ,like HK it's an object, malicious fukks.

 

[ShaDynasty]

The West still has colonial dreams about that place,they think it still "belongs" to them ,like HK it's an object, malicious fukks.

This is not true at all, they have no interest and don't want to get involved now that HK is getting swallowed by China and HK is asking for help.

Hong Kong should be independent, but the average Hong Konger would rather be a british colony again than have their rights systematically stripped by a totalitarean regime.

 

[Xcoyote]

This is not true at all, they have no interest and don't want to get involved now that HK is getting swallowed by China and HK is asking for help.

Hong Kong should be independent, but the average Hong Konger would rather be a british colony again than have their rights systematically stripped by a totalitarean regime.

Maybe foreign white colonial judges would rather HK be a colony again but that's definitely not your average HKer brother,foh your out of your depth completely on this topic
China's Hong Kong law set to bar foreign judges from national security cases - sources

 

[ShaDynasty]

Maybe foreign white colonial judges would rather HK be a colony again but that's definitely not your average HKer brother,foh your out of your depth completely on this topic
China's Hong Kong law set to bar foreign judges from national security cases - sources

I'm not out of my depth. The HK people do not want to be part of China. A lot of people in HK have said they would rather go back to the UK than be part of China, at least as a transition to independence.

The judges don't make much of a difference. China owns the HK government and are turning HK into another anonymous chinese city.

 

[Pressure]

It's probably a result of a machine learning model used for censorship of idiotic comments and spawned from dotards China induced rhetoric.