Posted on 08/02/2017 5:40:33 AM PDT by Drew68
They will do this by burying them where they cannot be found, thumbed-up, commented upon, suggested or advertised on.
If you try searching for them, you will find a list of "approved" videos that will provide progressive education.
The system will utilize the assistance of 15 leftist NGOs to provide guidance on what constitutes "supremacist" content.
It's a brave new world folks!
Any conservative speech will be labeled “hate speech.” E.T. Williams “The Doctor of Common Sense” is already having problems with censorship. YouTube needs a good competitor.
C'mon, now. You don't trust the Anti-Defamation League to be fair and objective?
“Controversial” = conservative.
Lefties at work.
Again. Competition is needed—FAST.
I sure would like to get a look at what YT calls “standards” with regard to hate speech and violent extremism.
Perhaps this is why Jordan Peterson’s channel was locked up yesterday with no explanation given.
Or we throw sand into the gears.
One mechanism YouTube will utilize to enforce their new policy will be hiding videos that receive too many thumbs-down. So now much like SJWs can shout down conservative speakers on college campuses, they'll now be able to do the same thing to "offensive" YouTube videos by organizing large numbers of viewers to click the thumbs-down icon.
So what if everyone clicked thumbs down on every video they watched? Would it not render this mechanism useless.
I'm just brainstorming here before this thread dies due to disinterest.
Though she presents FACTS about Islam, I expect Pam Geller to be censored too.
I don't know about locking channels but it is my understanding that YouTube won't be actually removing any videos. Reason being, they get reposted and draw more attention to themselves, defeating the purpose of removing them in the first place.
Unlike the morons running the cable news channels, they're not idiots over at YouTube. The goal here is to silence objectionable content, not popularize it by turning it into forbidden fruit.
I’m a YouTube viewer, but not a member so I don’t give thumbs up or down or comment. But wouldn’t YouTube be able to discern if a member gave only thumbs down and then merely delete that member?
The past few months I've noticed that Google's search engine has deliberately deteriorated. Many searches no longer return the target of the search but the exact opposite. Search for global warming topics and you often end up with a list of websites attacking "deniers", instead of what you were looking for.
George Soros owns or funds 90% of the NGOs. NGO is a synonym leftist front group.
My two older kids, 8 and 6, watch nothing on a TV screen except YouTube. They don't watch cable. They don't watch cable channels. Older kids are the same way. MSM cable news channels are today the abode of old people.
The libertarian-leaning right has embraced YouTube, taken it over really, as THE medium to get their message out. And people are finding them, younger people.
The election of Trump, the rise of Europe's alt.right, and polling showing that the generation following millennials are abandoning "progressive" ideals, the powers behind Google and YouTube are nervous and feeling responsible.
They feel they have a social obligation to tamp this down and reel it in. This is a knee-jerk response that I dearly hope will have unforeseen consequences. This move needs to fail.
I trust it will. The people running YouTube are smart but their ideals are old and stale and there is a generation coming up behind them that are clever as well. And they're on the offensive and passionate.
Bannon is right. Make them a public utility.
And by controversial, they mean any video that advocates for whites, heterosexuals, Christians, or males.
JoMa
And by "terror content" they mean not Muslims.
A major change to YouTube that will silence conservative voices generates no interest on Free Republic.
Sad.
Crickets...
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