Posted on 10/09/2021 8:40:40 AM PDT by EBH
Google announced Thursday that it would no longer allow ads or monetization for content that promotes climate change denialism. The policy change will apply to publishers, advertisers and YouTube creators, who will no longer be able to make money from content that “contradicts well-established scientific consensus around the existence and causes of climate change.”
Google plans to enforce the new policy with a blend of algorithmic detection and human moderation and the change will go into effect next month. While there’s some room for interpretation in the new rules, according to Google they “[include] content referring to climate change as a hoax or a scam, claims denying that long-term trends show the global climate is warming, and claims denying that greenhouse gas emissions or human activity contribute to climate change.”
In a blog post, the Google Ads team said that the policy change reflects the desires of advertisers, who “simply don’t want their ads to appear next to this content.” The blog post also noted that creators and publishers don’t want ads pushing climate denialism on their videos either, though that fact seems a bit dubious considering how rife Google’s video platform is with misinformation.
Google’s new policy takes a strong stance on false claims about the climate crisis, but social networks have only just begun to reckon with their role in disseminating climate-related misinformation. YouTube has also proven notoriously slow to introduce new rules designed to stop the flow of misinformation in the past on other issues, including false claims about the U.S. election.
Ultimately, the policy is an improvement — all platforms should build out robust rule sets around the accelerating existential threat to humanity — but new rules will only make a dent in the misinformation ecosystem if they’re aggressively and consistently enforced.
“well-established scientific consensus”
And limburger cheese stinks, but tastes
good on the right cracker.
Switch to Rumble, folks. Screw Youtube.
They haff veys to mek you comply!
From the 1970’s on we’ve had overpopulation, new ice age, acid rain, ozone hole, global warming and climate change. None of them real. All of them designed to give power to the left (who are all Sun deniers).
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Yep.
Always a big scare. Solution is always destroy freedom.
Godless apocalyptic cult believe anything.
Communists use anything.
good f them
When you hear them use the word "consensus" you know immediately that they are not talking about science, they are talking about politics.
Lysenko lives.
The “science” of “climate change” is “settled”. Contrary opinions will not be tolerated.
They’re too busy pushing the new Frankenvax angle
“Yeah, so it has terrible side effects but the Coof is worse. Get jabbed”
....the accelerating existential threat to humanity [climate change].....
Really?
soon they will start to give strikes and suspend accounts like they so election and covid “misinformation”
It is past time for conservatives to get off YT and form our own version. Any Freepers in tech have any ideas?
It is past time for conservatives to get off YT and form our own version. Any Freepers in tech have any ideas?
a few other sites out there but Rumble is growing rather fast and has some big bucks behind it
https://rumble.com/register/F5Tornado/
The problem is YouTube is not the government but a private company. Therefore, the First Amendment, which says the state may not deprive a person of liberty for what s/he says, cannot be used against YT. A private company may decline advertising revenue from anyone for any reason.
The solution is to form our own equivalent video storage site. I’m sure there are enough conservatives with the tech skills to pull this off.
Hosts don’t murder guests.
The Stark clan would beg to differ.
Gee, I wonder if they have a similar policy for Holocaust, Holodomor, and/or Armenian Genocide denial?
YouTube has become the default knowledge repository of the world - therefore, people tend to trust it when seeking political knowledge, as well. Google abuses this trust by censoring politically "sensitive" information in a way they would never attempt for videos on classical guitar techniques or gardening tips.
Conservatives for now can only spread the word that Google cannot be trusted as a source for political information, and direct people to alternatives. That's admittedly a hard sell in a world where "Google" means search in the same way "Kleenex" means tissue...
BTW, I disagree that Google is really a private (actually public) company - without government intervention they would not hold the monopolies they have today.
Well, the CCP owns Alphabet, A owns Google, G owns YouTube; so anything from them is right out of Beijing. Now, who benefits by climate hysteria? The countries who sign on to treaties that give them a pass and destroy capitalism (the Stated goal of the UN’s IPCC). China is #1 in that category.
They may block content, but not your comments!!!
Then they will probably add anti-trans content and anti-CRT content.
bkmk
Huh, so “climate change denialism” is the new “honest scientific inquiry” then...
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