[HN Gopher] YouTube Reinstates Right Wing Watch
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       YouTube Reinstates Right Wing Watch
        
       Author : ortusdux
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2021-06-28 22:14 UTC (46 minutes ago)
        
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       | ravenstine wrote:
       | RWW should upload to BitChute and Odysee. Why not?
        
       | astrange wrote:
       | Does the YouTube appeal process actually do anything? It sounds
       | like it never checks for mistakes like this.
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       | https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/140949874315881267...
        
       | ALittleLight wrote:
       | I think fixing popular "mistakes" like this is problematic in its
       | own way. Google/YouTube approach the problem of moderation by
       | using unreliable systems and correcting mistakes when there is
       | enough of a popular outrage. The problem is, people who can't
       | generate the outrage are subject to Google's poor moderation.
       | 
       | If Google did not fix mistakes that generated a lot of outrage,
       | then competitors could differentiate themselves by providing
       | better moderation policies and whenever some popular account got
       | banned from YouTube that would generate a lot of traffic for
       | alternatives. As is, if something popular gets banned, YouTube
       | will "correct" their error while they ignore things below this
       | threshold. This simultaneously subjects everyone to their poor
       | moderation and stifles an advantage that competitors might enjoy.
        
       | rektide wrote:
       | I liked slg's post, in the earlier thread on RWW being banned:
       | 
       |  _> Has anyone else noticed that most complaints like this about
       | Youtube 's moderation fail Hanlon's razor? I'm just not sure I
       | believe these type of conspiracies that attribute specific and
       | nefarious reasons for these moderation decisions._
       | 
       |  _> It is natural to try to see patterns in the moderation, but I
       | think the largest pattern is that there is little pattern. They
       | instead have an job that is impossible to do at the scale they do
       | it at the budget they do it at._
       | 
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27666611
        
       | rvz wrote:
       | Context [0]
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       | Of course... another _' Accident'_ as all ways with these tech
       | companies with dangerous levels of power.
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       | I can't believe that they can just sit there and 'trust' these
       | tech giants because they ' _think_ ' that they are on their side.
       | 
       | They can do it to _anyone_ for any reason and they were already
       | rejecting their appeals (Because of the guidelines). Probably
       | will happen again to someone else previously banned.
       | 
       | Like I said before, they are not you friends; accident or not. On
       | the side of profit.
       | 
       | [0]
       | https://twitter.com/RightWingWatch/status/140949874315881267...
        
       | GenerocUsername wrote:
       | Our apologies! We thought your controversial opinions WERE right
       | wing. Sorry for missunderstanding, we did not mean to deplatform
       | like minded folks. -youtube
        
         | pacerwpg wrote:
         | It's likely documenting things like death threats that were the
         | violations. I wouldn't whitewash that by simply labelling those
         | as 'controversial right wing opinions'.
        
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