Technology

This is just going to be used to allow fascist propaganda, isn't it?

Intention: YouTubers can stop with the whole self censoring shit.

Example: Unaliving; PDF file; grape; etc.

Reality: Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and other right wing grifters receive zero censorship while YouTubers still have to self censor to receive monetization.

"Free speech" under capitalism means the freedom to promote fascism, rascism, misogyny, homophobia, genocide, etc...

But if you post half a second of a Disney movie, your account will be permanently deleted.

If only half of that leniency were granted to selfhosting tools and adblockers

Do people still have to say unalive?

Censorship is goddamn stupid. They should just tag content & let people decide what to filter.

This is such bad news. I'm sympathetic to content creators who have to step on eggshells to please the algorithm/advertisers... But this?

Yeah, this is not that. We all know who this is for.

They opened their doors to the goose stepping. Fucking corporate shitheads.

See the issue here is Google/Youtube still get to be the ones to decide what "may outweigh the harm risk". And the answer I bet will usually be whichever one serves their financial interests.

Which on one hand sure, it is their platform after all. But don't do me dry and claim you used lube.

We will (still) allow children's cartoon characters to be mutilated and put into explicit situations and then push them as child friendly, but how dare you use a swear in the first 15 seconds of a video or say the work kill.

I still wouldn't trust Google not to nuke my channel on a whim even in spite of those relaxed moderation rules. What's stopping a little bribe from the right company or political party from causing them to backpedal or even tighten their grip further?

This is why one should at least mirror their content to PeerTube or a similar alternative platform like that even if they're not going to just outright post future content to said alternative and give up on YT altogether.

Great, now that 50% of a video can be a direct call for genocide, does that at LEAST mean I can use ONE instance of a "bad" word or speak of "icky" things like death and drug abuse without being demonized?

Introducing: Pay More, Say More

Surely this can't become deeply problematic for the social fabric.

Moderators were previously told to remove videos if one-quarter or more of the content violated YouTube policies. Now, that limit has been increased to half.

This seems like alien speak to me. They announce that shit, someone read it, and then repeated it in an article. But what does it mean?

Can you have 6 contents and make 2 really crazy? Can you tell people to commit violence for 5 minutes and then review a game for 6 minutes? Is there a dude with tvtropes open going through and marking the contents of content?

They really are killin' everything, aren't they...

Videos are allowed if "freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk"

oh it's that easy huh. why didn't we think of this before lol.

This sucks but I think this will lead to a Youtube exodus and other platforms like Peertube will creator and user base will grow

youtube shadowbanning, demonitization and censorship is the most retarded shit that's ever happened to the internet. the whole website is videos and comments of people who cater to kids and commercial advertisers and cant say shit.

"Muh ~~freedums~~ profit" outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.

As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.

I'm gessing that's not gonna positively impact the people i watch and instead go towards some dumb shits.

At least true crime youtubers won't have to bleep half their videos anymore /s

Wait what??? This came out of nowhere ??

YouTube not cracking down on free speech??