Posted on 06/13/2019 1:48:21 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Internet researcher Jonas Kaiser said Thursday that YouTubes latest move to ban extremist content on the platform is too little, too late.
When it comes from white supremacists, from Neo-nazis, YouTube in my mind has been doing too little, too late, Kaiser, a Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society affiliate at Harvard University, told Hill.TV.
He urged the platform to be more transparent when it comes to freedom of speech issues.
In general there needs to be more transparency, especially when it comes to thorny issues like First Amendment rights, which I think should be protected at all costs, Kaiser said. However, obviously theres always this question of to what extent.
YouTube announced earlier this month that it would take stronger action against hateful and supremacist content.
In a blog post entitled Our ongoing work to tackle hate, the Google-owned company said it would prohibit "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 came a day after YouTube sparked outrage over its handling of a series of remarks made by conservative commentator Steven Crowder about Vox journalist Carlos Maza.
In a viral Twitter thread, Maza compiled a montage of Crowder referring to Maza using racist and homophobic slurs, including "lispy queer" and the gay Mexican from Vox." YouTube said although it found the language "clearly hurtful," Crowder's videos didn't violate company policies.
Crowders channel was later demonetized, and YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki issued an apology to the LGBTQ community. The company is now in the process of reassessing its harassment policies in light of the incident.
While some conservatives claim that YouTube's latest moves against harassment and hate speech seek to censor those on the right, civil rights groups like the Anti-Defamation League have applaud the company's new policies, calling them an important step forward.
I didn't know the First Amendment was a 'thorny issue' and apparently the Anti-Defamation League is the arbitrator.
Here is Mr. Kaiser mission statement to fight 'hate':
"Jonas Kaiser is an Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Associate Researcher at the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet & Society, and DFG Research Fellow.
His research is located at the intersection of digital and political communication. Jonas' research interests are online extremism, public sphere theory, online misinformation, and digital methods. He is currently working on a book for Oxford University Press on how the far-right in Germany and the United States is (ab)using the internet's affordances. Jonas earned his PhD (Dr. phil.) at Zeppelin University for his thesis about climate change skepticism in Germany. His work has been published in journals like International Journal of Communication, Communication and the Public or Environmental Communication and has been featured in German as well as U.S. news media.
At Berkman he is thinking about the role social media platforms play in creating a networked public sphere and is trying to understand where and how the German and U.S. far-right is trying to establish their topics in the public sphere. He has, for example, written about the role YouTube's recommendation algorithms play in fostering filter bubbles, what topics (far-)right media outlets are covering during before domestic elections, or how journalists and academics might overestimate Twitter's relevance for society.
Evil extreeeeem white supremacists and Nazis...
But Antifa and Black Lives Matter...no problem.
Blowbacks a bitch
“. . . at the intersection of . . .”
Whenever you read these latest PC words, turn the page.
Things in an intersection get run over.
Odd. I didn’t expect him to look like a racist skinhead.
(-;
“civil rights groups like the Anti-Defamation League have applaud the company’s new policies”
Of course they do. Free speech as long as you agree with the leftist creeps.
“Odd. I didnt expect him to look like a racist skinhead.”
Pencil neck gives him away.
“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.”
Superior? How about “different”? Something tells me that would also get a ban, the truth be damned.
“Christians detonate fewer bombs in public spaces than Moslems.”
“On average, men can bench press more than women.”
“Homosexuals have higher rates of disease, depression, and drug abuse than the general population.”
“White populations have lower crime rates than black populations.”
“Women become less fertile as they age.”
All of these statements are ban-worthy offenses in Clown World. They have no reason to ban lies.
He looks like he’s been mainlining soy for years and possibly taking his sister’s birth control pills on top of that.
However, obviously theres always this question of to what extent.
Uh ... make up your mind, Twoface. Which is it: "at all costs" or "to what extent"?
Clown World
I don’t think it’s all that new, a few months old, at least, so sort of new.
“In a viral Twitter thread, Maza compiled a montage of Crowder referring to Maza using racist and homophobic slurs, including “lispy queer” and the gay Mexican from Vox.” “
Carlos Maza said all of that about himself, Crowder was quoting him and referring to him by terms Maza himself used.
What’s the difference between a clown car and Carlos Maza?
Clown car has less people stuffed into it.
I’m guessing this faggot absolutely loathes himself for being White. Whites seem to be the only race trying to F up their lives. I don’t get it.
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