Tuesday, 1 August 2017

YouTube will hide, but not remove, some ‘supremacist’ videos

YouTube has been cracking down on extremist content over the past couple months, and today the company is announcing some details on its progress and a few additional policy changes. One of the biggest: YouTube will now begin limiting the reach of videos that have “controversial religious or supremacist content” but don’t strictly violate the website’s hate speech guidelines.

Videos that get flagged by users but, on review, aren’t deemed to be in violation of the site’s rules may now be subject to several new restrictions. That includes being placed behind an interstitial (showing some kind of warning), being unable to run ads, and the loss of community features such as comments, likes, and suggested videos.

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from
https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/1/16072840/youtube-placing-limits-on-supremacist-videos

from
http://ifeeltechinc.blogspot.com/2017/08/youtube-will-hide-but-not-remove-some.html

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