[HN Gopher] YouTube Reinstates Right Wing Watch ___________________________________________________________________ YouTube Reinstates Right Wing Watch Author : ortusdux Score : 24 points Date : 2021-06-28 22:14 UTC (46 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (www.nbcnews.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nbcnews.com) | ravenstine wrote: | RWW should upload to BitChute and Odysee. Why not? | astrange wrote: | Does the YouTube appeal process actually do anything? It sounds | like it never checks for mistakes like this. | | https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/140949874315881267... | ALittleLight wrote: | I think fixing popular "mistakes" like this is problematic in its | own way. Google/YouTube approach the problem of moderation by | using unreliable systems and correcting mistakes when there is | enough of a popular outrage. The problem is, people who can't | generate the outrage are subject to Google's poor moderation. | | If Google did not fix mistakes that generated a lot of outrage, | then competitors could differentiate themselves by providing | better moderation policies and whenever some popular account got | banned from YouTube that would generate a lot of traffic for | alternatives. As is, if something popular gets banned, YouTube | will "correct" their error while they ignore things below this | threshold. This simultaneously subjects everyone to their poor | moderation and stifles an advantage that competitors might enjoy. | rektide wrote: | I liked slg's post, in the earlier thread on RWW being banned: | | _> Has anyone else noticed that most complaints like this about | Youtube 's moderation fail Hanlon's razor? I'm just not sure I | believe these type of conspiracies that attribute specific and | nefarious reasons for these moderation decisions._ | | _> It is natural to try to see patterns in the moderation, but I | think the largest pattern is that there is little pattern. They | instead have an job that is impossible to do at the scale they do | it at the budget they do it at._ | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666611 | rvz wrote: | Context [0] | | Of course... another _' Accident'_ as all ways with these tech | companies with dangerous levels of power. | | I can't believe that they can just sit there and 'trust' these | tech giants because they ' _think_ ' that they are on their side. | | They can do it to _anyone_ for any reason and they were already | rejecting their appeals (Because of the guidelines). Probably | will happen again to someone else previously banned. | | Like I said before, they are not you friends; accident or not. On | the side of profit. | | [0] | https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/140949874315881267... | GenerocUsername wrote: | Our apologies! We thought your controversial opinions WERE right | wing. Sorry for missunderstanding, we did not mean to deplatform | like minded folks. -youtube | pacerwpg wrote: | It's likely documenting things like death threats that were the | violations. I wouldn't whitewash that by simply labelling those | as 'controversial right wing opinions'. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-06-28 23:00 UTC)