Re:YouTube automatically deletes Chinese epithet 'communist ...
by m0llusk on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:28PM
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"Communist bandit" is highly inflammatory rhetoric because it references the traditional Chinese term for a regime that has lost legitimacy and must soon fall: "bad men and bandits". It is roughly at the same level as "Fuck the King". Harmless words for people living in modern democratic states, but plainly out of line for people under authoritarian control.
Re:YouTube automatically deletes Chinese epithet 'communist ...
by yumraj on Sunday May 17, 2020 @03:37PM
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I don't disagree with that. Though not clear if you were replying to my point about where the order to block it came from. Unless I missed it..
I wonder if this is just some lower level software engineer or product manager taking a unilateral decision, for whatever reason, or if this came from up above...