![]() ![]() Strangely, this isn’t a simple oversight by YouTube’s parent company, Google. Making it more frustrating is Gizmodo’s assertion, with a sinister connotation, that all of this is “part of YouTube’s plan.” Whipping up anger at content that’s available at this moment is trivially easy. Yeah, there is still a good deal of extremist content on YouTube. The screw up here is YouTube not properly setting the public’s expectations as to what its policy would achieve. YouTube never should have suggested it would happen. There is simply no world in which YouTube both successfully eliminates all, or even the majority, of speech that some large group or another considers hate speech or “extreme.” That’s never going to happen. ![]() #LEMMINGS JUMPING OFF CLIFFS YOUTUBE FULL#Why Is It Still Full of Extremists?īecause it’s fucking impossible, that’s why. YouTube Said It Was Getting Serious About Hate Speech. Which makes it frustrating to read headlines such as Gizmodo’s recent piece on how YouTube is doing with all of this. Actually eliminating it at scale, and in a way that doesn’t sweep up collateral damage and garners wide support, is impossible. Wanting to eliminate that sort of thing is understandable, even if you still think it’s problematic. YouTube, for instance, has released new moderation policies over the past two months or so that seek to give it broad powers to eliminate content that it deems to be hate speech, or speech centered on demographic supremacy. The largest platforms have found themselves in this mess, namely Facebook and YouTube. ![]() Tech firms tend to find themselves in the most trouble when they try to bow to this demand for content moderation, rather than simply declaring it to be impossible and moving on. This becomes all the more difficult when the content in question is not universally considered objectionable. Like, to the point of being functionally impossible. #LEMMINGS JUMPING OFF CLIFFS YOUTUBE SERIES#We’ve had something of a long-running series of posts on the topic of content moderation, with our stance generally being that any attempt to do this at scale is laughably difficult. Tue, Aug 6th 2019 12:13pm - Timothy Geigner ![]()
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