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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by megaman821 on Friday February 25, 2022 @10:50AM (#30468539)
I can't imagine what change they could make to the the algorithms to understand world context at an acceptable level. Reporting on the Russian Ukraine conflict and show a dead body. That is news and should probably be left up. A school shooting and show a dead body. Why did the algorithms leave that up so long?
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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by freeflight on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:00AM (#30468657)
2017 had a kind of similar situation where YouTube started deleting a whole lot of Syrian civil war related channels [0], apparently due to the algorithm going haywire trying to censor "extremist propaganda".

[0] https://www-nytimes-com.translate.goog/2017/08/22/world/midd...

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Re:Tell HN: YouTube is banning accounts that support Ukraine by consumer451 on Friday February 25, 2022 @11:11AM (#30468785)
I always assumed this was related to abuse of reporting systems by the opposition.
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