YouTube is trying to reduce the prevalence of extremist content on the platform
YouTube is changing its community guidelines to ban videos promoting the superiority of any group as a justification for discrimination against others based on their age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status, the company said today. The move, which will result in the removal of all videos promoting Nazism and other discriminatory ideologies, is expected to result in the removal of thousands of channels across YouTube.
“The openness of YouTube’s platform has helped creativity and access to information thrive,” the company said in a blog post. “It’s our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence.”
The changes announced on Wednesday attempt to improve its content moderation in three ways. First, the ban on supremacists will remove Nazis and other extremists who advocate segregation or exclusion based on age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status. In addition to those categories, YouTube is adding caste, which has significant implications in India, and “well-documented violent events,” such as the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting and 9/11. Users are no longer allowed to post videos saying those events did not happen, YouTube said.
Second, YouTube said it would expand efforts announced in January to reduce the spread of what it calls “borderline content and harmful misinformation.” The policy, which applies to videos that flirt with violating the community guidelines but ultimately fall short, aims to limit the promotion of those videos through recommendations. YouTube said the policy, which affects videos including flat-earthers and peddlers of phony miracle cures, had already decreased the number of views that borderline videos receive by 50 percent. In the future, the company said, it will recommend videos from more authoritative sources, like top news channels, in its “next watch” panel.
Finally, YouTube said it would restrict channels from monetizing their videos if they are found to “repeatedly brush up against our hate speech policies.” Those channels will not be able to run ads or use Super Chat, which lets channel subscribers pay creators directly for extra chat features. The last change comes after BuzzFeed reported that the paid commenting system had been used to fund creators of videos featuring racism and hate speech.
In 2017, YouTube took a step toward reducing the visibility of extremists on the platform when it began placing warnings in front of some videos. But it has come under continued scrutiny for the way that it recruits followers for racists and bigots by promoting their work through recommendation algorithms and prominent placement in search results. In April, Bloomberg reported that videos made by far-right creators represented one of the most popular sections of YouTube, along with music, sports, and video games.
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[–] 19109384? ago
No they didn't. They just attacked White people with narratives they don't like.
Almost nothing touched was 'supremacist'.
[–] 19103396? ago
How can we redpill normies without YouTube ?
[–] 19103400? ago
Youtube is a video sharing platform. We switch to another video sharing platform make it grow and watch youtube ultimately turn to shit and make fun of it. OR heroes of america bring back the flaying cross and start making modern art with google employees until the company stops being anti constitutional.
[–] 19109387? ago
You idiot.
They tried that with hooktube and other outlets; this isn't about money, its about control.
Last time we tried exactly that, (((the investors))) all simultaneously backed out of the target platform because why the fuck wouldn't they?
YouTube is not anywhere close to profitable, its not about money, its about control.
Is so incredibly retarded in-context.
Stop talking and go back to lurking.
[–] 19103399? ago
Can't use youtube if power stations can't operate.
[–] 19103395? ago
They are going after James DeFranco top kek.
[–] 19102568? ago
Ban youtube then.
[–] 19102567? ago
Thank god they didn't touch this.
[–] 19101437? ago
I uronically am starting to sincerely prefer bitchute as a platform and not just for political ends.
honestly whats not to like?
here are some cool vids that got posted there from back when the natsoc side of youtube was actually huge and largely left the fuck alone.
[–] 19102563? ago
>>13365148
What about Invidious?
[–] 19102564? ago
Not sure but im assuming thats another video hosting site?
be more then happy to use that if bitchute ends up going the way of jewtube
but untill then our biggest danger is splitting our content
we want to make bitchute big
we want to make bitchute scary (to ((them)))
We want normie teens comming to the site and getting redpilled.
When your parents told you not to watch south park what did you do?
Watch fucking south park.
We want to give bitchute that kind of reputation.
Make it edgy, make it dangerous, make it rebellion and the youth will come
its in their physiology for better or worse.
And with the way our culture fetishizes the "counter culture"
We can use that to our advantage.
[–] 19100177? ago
I was in this live youtube channel
https://youtu.be/hlESMhW-VW4
"🔴 Relaxing Music 24/7, Meditation Music, Healing Music, Sleeping Music, Yoga Music, Study Music"
and there is a chat open
I saw there was some pajeet asking for a girlfriend so I asked if he used designated streets
ANYWAY
there are youtube policemen - Thought Police - hired by youtube, and I ran across one.
Here is the Thought Police's youtube channel/account
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp3-xgkr-06ZPdaOv5FttpQ
screenshots 1 -4 are screenshots of the chat, while #5 is his account
His name is "Alex"
[–] 19103394? ago
Go back to >>>/reddit/ faggot.
[–] 19083075? ago
https://www.bittorrent.com/live/
TRX and BTT are the future. Even if BitTorrent tries to censor nodes, people can tell them to fuck off and hardfork it.
Never thought I'd see the day where the WWW will become just as outdated as ARPAnet.
[–] 19100178? ago
>>13375145
>>13372113
y'all are talking about ipfs, but do you realize how hard it is to get people on board with it?
If someone came out with making an "image board" ahem using ipfs, I would be all in on that.
[–] 19109382? ago
If only you'd actually read the post linked in that second one
[–] 19109381? ago
There is https://github.com/smugdev/smugboard
No, it isn't a dead project, just hibernating. The developer that is, me has been waiting for js-ipfs to reach a more functional state before moving forwards since it has proven difficult trying to hit that moving target while the platform keeps changing underneath the project. I want it to be completely peer-to-peer (requiring a fully implemented DHT+IPNS), and I want it to be usable over TOR, things js-ipfs isn't quite up to yet. It is most definitely not abandonware though.
[–] 19100176? ago
Join the club, brother
>>12020142