YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content
YouTube relaxes moderation rules to allow more controversial content
The Google-owned site has provided moderators with new guidelines and training on how to deal with inflammatory content that breaks YouTube's code of conduct, writes The New...
In before this creates a safe space for transphobia and bigotry but does nothing to address shit like that one YouTuber that recently got permanently banned because she knocked over a lamp their automated systems flagged it as "child abuse content."
My guess is that MAGA content was getting flagged, and Youtube believes that should be monetizable in modern America.
Their advertisers are prolly salivating about it, if not behind it.
Maga are great for advertisers, low information & highly susceptible.
Was rumble the alternative for that, did it start to do well
If this means I no longer have to hear the word "unalive," great.
I don't think that's affected. It sounds more like political propaganda which gets allowed. I bet this will still be censored and lead to demonetization just as it is today.
🤣 this will end well. Acceleration to the max!!!
I watch a sketch comedy group that gets abused by YouTube's moderation. Some of their stuff leans edgy, but the moderation and demonetization seems pretty arbitrary. There is no viable appeal process or viable alternative platform. Reminds me of how Google controls the Play store and removes open source projects for arbitrary or spurious reasons.
I take less issue with aggressive moderation and more issue with the lack of infrastructure to handle the concept that the first line ai decision might be wrong.
Adding to that - Google's effective monopolization of "amateur" video distribution, and coincidentally monopolization of app distribution and monetization on the 70% market share mobile platform, makes it more problematic that the company is unanswerable to moderation mistakes.