Re:Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube commen...
by alfiedotwtf on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:20AM
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Replacing "China" with "Taiwan" did not trigger a deleted comment
Re:Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube commen...
by randomanon on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:51AM
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> I really hope that is just some stupid bug and not on purpose
Think again, censorship on YT, Twitter, Reddit and few other social media channels is well known for those that dig a little bit deeper. Usually it's applied to anything that can be interpreted as 'wrongthink' but more recently, it's also being applied to any negative comments regarding China...
Re:Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube commen...
by mytailorisrich on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:04AM
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The terms listed in what you've linked to are insults, not "words that the CCP considers offensive".
It's like if you called someone a "Republican asshole", "libtard", of whatever the poetic Americann English lexicon has invented.
For example, I'm sure someone could write in response to this very comment: "how much are you paid to post, you 50 Cent Commie Bandit". This is not a reply, this is an harassing insult.
This has nothing to do with political censorship. This is about insults, harassment, and civility.
Re:Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube commen...
by Zak on Monday May 18, 2020 @11:38AM
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If a large fraction of insults were being automatically deleted, this would be a different conversation. I, for one would welcome a setting where I could hide incivility by default.
This is more like permitting "libtard" while deleting "Republican asshole", suggesting a preference for one side over the other.
Re:Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube commen...
by keiferski on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:20AM
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Have you ever read the comments section of a YouTube video? It's rife with insults and always has been.
Re:Ask HN: How long has Google been censoring YouTube commen...
by alfiedotwtf on Monday May 18, 2020 @09:29AM
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Check my edit to the description of this post. I made a new comment, and there is zero way it could have been seen as harassment.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/glr2h4/youtube_go...
I really hope that is just some stupid bug and not on purpose. The trigger keywords seem pretty harmless to me.