Moderators were previously told to remove videos if one-quarter or more of the content violated YouTube policies. Now, that limit has been increased to half.

This seems like alien speak to me. They announce that shit, someone read it, and then repeated it in an article. But what does it mean?

Can you have 6 contents and make 2 really crazy? Can you tell people to commit violence for 5 minutes and then review a game for 6 minutes? Is there a dude with tvtropes open going through and marking the contents of content?

"Free speech" under capitalism means the freedom to promote fascism, rascism, misogyny, homophobia, genocide, etc...

But if you post half a second of a Disney movie, your account will be permanently deleted.

It depends on who is being targeted.

If you make a video calling for attacks on women, palestinians, gay people, etc., that's all good!

If you talk about taxing rich people, that's extreme violence. Immediate ban.

Intention: YouTubers can stop with the whole self censoring shit.

lol. that's not the intention.

Yes but that's not really a problem like the overwhelming fascism.

Believe it or not, straight to jail.

Great, now that 50% of a video can be a direct call for genocide, does that at LEAST mean I can use ONE instance of a "bad" word or speak of "icky" things like death and drug abuse without being demonized?

How many people have even heard of peertube?

I like freedom of speech but it seems like it would be pretty difficult to weigh those things against one another. what is the metric that they have in common? I don't know that there is one

Slope's Game Room is about to lose his channel over 'hate speech' that isn't even his. One more reason for me to not post any future video content to YT if I ever seriously get into making vids and instead just posting everything to PeerTube where it at least isn't in danger of getting nuked because Google got pissed at me.

Update: he got to keep his channel. Still one more reason to not put any future content on YT should I pick up video content creation though.

Introducing: Pay More, Say More

Surely this can't become deeply problematic for the social fabric.

At least true crime youtubers won't have to bleep half their videos anymore /s

I've worked for TnS at a different company.

I would guess it is likely per video, or they have multiple types of review going over it on a per video basis and then also maybe the channel as a whole?

So you could have half of any video contain the violating content, and it would be clear.

Actual reality: Right-wing grifters are already on a "whitelist", as long as they also talk about lower taxes, lessening regulations and worker's protections, and also got popular enough. Source: knew a former moderator for Google.

People have literally never had to say that.

First off it was Tiktok, not YouTube, that started the "unalived" trend, but even then make no mistake, "killed," "murdered," "died," etc has never been banned on tiktok either.

What has been happening is that videos (on tiktok) with "potentially divisive content" are not being promoted by tiktok. You video will not get removed just for saying the word "killed" and will still be fully available for viewing by your followers, it just won't be promoted on the For You page for strangers.

And it's fine if you still object to this, but we have to stop conflating the two. Not being promoting is not the same thing as being censored.

Edit: I don't know who downvoted this or why, but I'm right

when the site becomes a 100% right wing echo chamber people will flee it.

they dont need to nuke your channel, they just bury your videos with thier algorithim, this is what pushed many smaller content creators off youtube in the pass. a channel i used to follow, i would have to painstakingly search it through other videos that arnt even related to it.

i saw that on a channel i used to follow, they were getting strike so they had to take it down. kinda hoping they would give them the last strike, because turned into trump loving shitheels

whitelist vs discovered the algorithm, same thing really.

Maybe you're right: is there verification?

Neither content policy (youtube or tiktok) clearly lays out rules on those words.
I only find unverified claims: some write it started at YouTube, others claim TikTok.
They claim YouTube demonetizes & TikTok shadowbans.
They generally agree content restrictions by these platforms led to the propagation of circumspect shit like unalive & SA.

TikTok policy outlines their moderation methods, which include removal and ineligibility to the for you feed.
Given their policy on self-harm & automated removal of potential violations, their policy is to effectively & recklessly censor such language.

Generally, censorship is suppression of expression.
Censorship doesn't exclusively mean content removal, though they're doing that, too.
(Digression: revisionism & whitewashing are forms of censorship.)

Regardless of how they censor or induce self-censorship, they're chilling inoffensive language pointlessly.
While as private entities they are free to moderate as they please, it's unnecessary & the effect is an obnoxious affront on self-expression that's contorting language for the sake of avoiding idiotic restrictions.