1/ Eric Schmidt says YouTube’s algos need rewriting to make extremist content “harder to find” to solve brand safetyhttp://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/297739/att-verizon-pull-ads-alphabets-schmidt-concede.html …
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Rich Felker Retweeted David Carroll 🦅
They need to just delete it and ban the users who are posting it from their platforms.https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/844976922878754816 …
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Replying to @RichFelker @profcarroll
But they _will not_ delete extremist content - and I understand their reasoning, even if I don't agree with it.
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Replying to @laurentbercot @RichFelker
Indeed. Schmidt is quoted in the above article in a way that shows he puts anti-censorship before brand safety.
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Replying to @profcarroll @laurentbercot
In a way that's good if it were about censoring things which are just "unpopular", "obscene", etc.
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But they're happy to reject "obscene" content (even +ing a 'restr. mode' declaring all LGBT creators obscene).
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Replying to @RichFelker @profcarroll
I'm willing to accept that it was an unintended mistake, an unfortunate side-effect of arcane classification.
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Replying to @laurentbercot @profcarroll
If it were a mistake they would have fixed it by now, or at least publicly declared it a mistake.
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They KNOW the target audience of this feature (K-12 edu, etc.) wants to make LGBT people disappear.
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