YouTube to Remove Thousands of Videos Pushing Extreme Views

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jayshiggs said:
  1. If it wasn't a corporation YouTube could tell advertisers kick rocks we are a free speech platform. They may lose $ in the short term but win credibility and loyal customers in the long-term. It would be better strategically for them.
  2. Why do they advertise on YouTube in the first place? I'm sure it brings them customers or they wouldn't do it right? So if they stop advertising on the platform they will lose customers going forward. That's the point of advertising right? To get new customers/increase revenue.
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1. if youtube wasn't a corporation what entity would you organize it as?

2. "credibility and loyal customers"??!? the customers are the one's who pressured the change... are you saying youtube should have ignored it customers in order to keep them?

3. If the customers are pissed off at seeing your ad being associated with white supremacist propaganda... you not only gonna lose POTENTIAL customers, you gonna lose your CURRENT customers too... moving from the platform is better than that.

4. Have you ever even worked in marketing/advertising? you come across as a person who just sees articles on the internet and bases your opinion on what other people are saying rather than what is actually going on in the industry
 
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Savvir said:
1. if youtube wasn't a corporation what entity would you organize it as?

2. "credibility and loyal customers"??!? the customers are the one's who pressured the change... are you saying youtube should have ignored it customers in order to keep them?

3. If the customers are pissed off at seeing you ad beign associated with white supremacist propoganda... you not only gonna lose POTENTIAL customers, you gonna lose your CURRENT customers too... moving from the platform is better than that.
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  1. Anything else that's private.
  2. I thought you said they complained to the advertisers? If customers are complaining to YouTube yes, tell them to kick rocks to we are a free speech platform. Do you think more people are for or against free speech? It is a winning issue for YouTube IMO.
  3. OK, they demonetize content all the time for things like that already. There is no mass boycott of YouTube in the works because of the content on there. People complain and threaten but like I said I believe it is mostly hollow. Look at FOX News how many times have they lost advertisers because of content? A lot and they are STILL the number one cable news Network. Why?
 
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A few comments:

1) is Fox News gonna get banned as well, given their hatred, biased, and bigoted coverage of immigrants?

2) Is Trump gonna get banned for his bigotry?

If 1) and 2) don’t happen, that’ll just show that if you have enough money, you can do whatever the fukk you want.

3) I bet these banned YouTubers will go to Vimeo, or some other platform like that.

4) There will be money to be made by creating a completely unmoderated or policed YouTube alternative. Is that good for society? I dunno...but somebody will do it. They’ll make a duckduckgo like video platform
 
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Washington (AFP) - YouTube announced Wednesday it would ban videos promoting or glorifying racism and discrimination as well as those denying well-documented violent events, like the Holocaust or the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting.

The announcement by the Google-owned video-sharing platform was the latest of a series of tech industry moves to filter out hateful and violent content, which have spurred calls for tougher regulation.

"YouTube has always had rules of the road, including a longstanding policy against hate speech," a company statement said.

"Today, we're taking another step in our hate speech policy by specifically prohibiting videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status."

The move comes after a call by world leaders in Paris last month to curb extremism online, following revelations about the livestreaming of a mosque massacre in New Zealand.

"We will begin enforcing this updated policy today; however, it will take time for our systems to fully ramp up and we'll be gradually expanding coverage over the next several months," YouTube said.

YouTube and other platforms have also been seen as havens for conspiracy theorists denying Holocaust or the September 11 attacks, and for Nazi and white supremacist groups.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks white supremacists and other extremist groups, said the ban will be positive only if YouTube enforces it.

"As with other outlets before it, YouTube's decision to remove hateful content depends on its ability to enact and enforce policies and procedures that will prevent this content from becoming a global organizing tool for the radical right," said the group's intelligence director Heidi Beirich.

"Tech companies must proactively tackle the problem of hateful content that is easily found on their platforms before it leads to more hate-inspired violence."

- Tougher measures -

In January, YouTube said it would stop recommending specious videos such as those claiming the earth is flat or promoting bogus theories about the September 11, 2001 terror attacks or the 2012 killings at the Sandy Hook elementary school in Connecticut. But it stopped short of banning that content.

YouTube said it would seek ways to keep some of the violent content to make it available to researchers.

But the latest move is likely to eliminate numerous "channels" that use the platform for monetization.

"We have longstanding advertiser-friendly guidelines that prohibit ads from running on videos that include hateful content and we enforce these rigorously," the statement said.

"Channels that repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies will be suspended from the YouTube Partner program, meaning they can't run ads on their channel or use other monetization features."

Earlier this year, Facebook announced it would ban praise or support for white nationalism and white separatism as part of a stepped-up crackdown on hate speech.

The moves by social media have prompted criticism among right-wing activists in the United States, and President Donald Trump has claimed that online platforms are seeking to suppress conservative voices.

YouTube did not disclose the names of any groups or channels that may be banned.

The YouTube move comes after a report in the tech news website The Verge documenting harassment of a journalist based on his race and sexual orientation by right-wing commentator Steven Crowder.

According to The Verge, Crowder's channel was still operational.

But YouTube said later on Twitter it had suspended monetization of Crowder's channel, barring him from getting YouTube ad revenues.

"We came to this decision because a pattern of egregious actions has harmed the broader community and is against our YouTube Partner Program policies," the company said.

Andrew Surabian, a Republican strategist and former White House aide, said the move suggests YouTube has caved in to pressure from activists.

"If that's their new standard, will they now demonetize all the rap videos with homophobic slurs on their platform?" he said on Twitter.
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That's my "welp, here we go" face.

I recognize YouTube's right to censor as they see fit, but I don't like it. I'm cool with YT banning pornography, snuff, etc. But conspiracy theories, controversial political vids (like separatist movements), and roasting people...I'm here for it. This is the internet. Hopefully some other video site pops up since YT has turned into Disney. Or something worse.
 
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Great Scott said:
That's my "welp, here we go" face.

I recognize YouTube's right to censor as they see fit, but I don't like it. I'm cool with YT banning pornography, snuff, etc. But conspiracy theories, controversial political vids (like separatist movements), and roasting people...I'm here for it. This is the internet. Hopefully some other video site pops up since YT has turned into Disney. Or something worse.
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Is this happening?
 
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