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Videos with titles with certain words might be flagged and can’t have ads. As I understand it they’re trying to prevent pornographic content from being monetize
by tobr 6y ago
Videos with titles with certain words might be flagged and can’t have ads. As I understand it they’re trying to prevent pornographic content from being monetized, and their list of dirty words include neutral LGBTQ+ terms like “gay” and “lesbian”. This has been verified by experiments where people upload the same video with different titles. [1]
So it’s yet another opaque system that might not have a sinister intention, but has a pretty sinister outcome.
1: https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/10/10/20893258/youtube-lgbtq-censorship-demonetization-nerd-city-algorithm-report https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/10/10/20893258/youtube-lgbt...
- Nasrudith 6y agoReminds me of another case of the opposite with Xbox Live where "gay" and "lesbian" were being censored to try to prevent the then prevalent use as a term of abuse. To be frank to me the algorithim seems to be a scapegoat for society's own fucked up norms and practices. It isn't a moral process and expecting it to act like one isn't reasonable - it would be like demanding a cargo value calculator stop listing concentrated drugs as the most profitable commodity by to transport per mass and volume because addiction ruin lives and overdose ends them. It is terrible but it is accurately describing the status quo.