We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTube Ad Placements

Re:We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTu... by MereInterest on Friday April 09, 2021 @10:47AM (#26751211)

Their github repo has a link to further description on each hate term. Some are hate groups. Some are deliberate misinformation about marginalized groups. Some are phrases instead to sound non-offensive to a general audience, while edging racist ideas into the mainstream.

Also, hate groups tend to cycle through new terminology whenever the previous batch becomes easily recognized by a general audience.

https://github.com/the-markup/investigation-youtube-ad-place...

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Re:We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTu... by CivBase on Friday April 09, 2021 @11:03AM (#26751404)

Describing what makes a term hateful is not the same as explaining how it got on the list. There are plenty of better known hate terms which are conspicuous by their absence. Naturally, the more obscure the term the less likely it is to be caught by the blacklist.

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Re:We Discovered Google’s Social Justice Blocklist for YouTu... by suifbwish on Friday April 09, 2021 @12:25PM (#26752547)

How is it 2021 and no one questions this BS? IMO any group that focuses on affirming the identity of fictional races, IS a hate group. A racially themed group pushing its own propaganda can never not be a hate group. We have the human species and just variations in hair, skin and eye color. Can’t we get past that simple concept?

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