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All of the social media platforms have become hotbeds for information warfare. From country based subreddits (or any subreddit with some political content) to Y
by newyankee 6y ago
All of the social media platforms have become hotbeds for information warfare. From country based subreddits (or any subreddit with some political content) to Youtube banning videos that are mass reported, it is crazy. Right now in India a popular youtuber had his video deleted. It was apparently on track to becoming the most liked non music video on the platform.
- alfiedotwtf 6y agoSure, but that's why I chose my video, which was posted a year ago with only 800 views. I knew there was no way somebody could have been watching my video within a minute and saw that comment then flagged it - this was automated.
- aboringusername 6y agoI think that's a key part of the perception that comments are being "censored". I mean, as I write this comment, I am typing in a textarea (<textarea name="text" rows="6" cols="60"></textarea>), it has a few hidden fields, and that's about it. This could be a complete spam message (go visit my penis enlarger at http://someurl.com http://someurl.com), or something that adds value to the discussion. The server could pre-emptively try to work that out and automoderate, or a human could get to it later, maybe community flagging provides a signal or can be abused. Imagine state actors doing this on a ginormous scale. Troll farms with people submitting content all day every day, to try and "confuse" an AI or make it "re-learn", that would be in their bests interests if they have a particular agenda. That's what we're dealing with here.