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I think we all want this to be a technical glitch, but I think that's not the case. This policy was made to appease an authoritarian government, and extending b

I think we all want this to be a technical glitch, but I think that's not the case. This policy was made to appease an authoritarian government, and extending beyond their borders by design.

retox 6y ago
It was happening maybe 6 months ago if you used the words 'israel' and 'nuclear' in the same comment.
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Barrin92 6y ago
It seems pretty likely because it sounds like a phrase that bots or fake users would spam. Not to mention that there's actually a word filter feature for content creators so you'd need to figure out if this is youtube deleting the comments or the channel owner.
- sfj 6y ago
  > you'd need to figure out if this is youtube deleting the comments or the channel owner. I tried this myself on a Joe Rogan podcast, who doesn't speak Chinese and is based in L.A. and my comment was removed with 20 seconds. I very much doubt that he was the cause of the censorship.
  - Barrin92 6y ago
    the "held comments" feature on youtube algorithmically hides comments it deems inappropriate if that feature is turned on and it's left to the review of the creator. I'm not sure if Joe Rogan has that turned on or not, but to accuse youtube of biased political censorship you'd have to actually show explicit bias towards the content. I feel unless shown otherwise (and I'm not really keen on spamming random hate speech into youtube comment sections), I'd assume that slurs like that may have been caught in some generic filter.
    - sfj 6y ago
      From: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359?hl=en YouTube can hold potentially inappropriate comments for review in the following languages: Arabic English French German Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Turkish Vietnamese Thai Indonesian Chinese is not one of them.

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I think we all want this to be a technical glitch, but I think that's not the case. This policy was made to appease an authoritarian government, and extending b

by hawkice 6y ago

I think we all want this to be a technical glitch, but I think that's not the case. This policy was made to appease an authoritarian government, and extending beyond their borders by design.

retox 6y ago
It was happening maybe 6 months ago if you used the words 'israel' and 'nuclear' in the same comment.
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Barrin92 6y ago
It seems pretty likely because it sounds like a phrase that bots or fake users would spam. Not to mention that there's actually a word filter feature for content creators so you'd need to figure out if this is youtube deleting the comments or the channel owner.
- sfj 6y ago
  > you'd need to figure out if this is youtube deleting the comments or the channel owner. I tried this myself on a Joe Rogan podcast, who doesn't speak Chinese and is based in L.A. and my comment was removed with 20 seconds. I very much doubt that he was the cause of the censorship.
  - Barrin92 6y ago
    the "held comments" feature on youtube algorithmically hides comments it deems inappropriate if that feature is turned on and it's left to the review of the creator. I'm not sure if Joe Rogan has that turned on or not, but to accuse youtube of biased political censorship you'd have to actually show explicit bias towards the content. I feel unless shown otherwise (and I'm not really keen on spamming random hate speech into youtube comment sections), I'd assume that slurs like that may have been caught in some generic filter.
    - sfj 6y ago
      From: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9483359?hl=en YouTube can hold potentially inappropriate comments for review in the following languages: Arabic English French German Japanese Korean Portuguese Russian Spanish Turkish Vietnamese Thai Indonesian Chinese is not one of them.