Google Says It's Reviewed Over 1M Suspected Terrorist Videos on YouTube This Year (cnet.com) 63
Google has reviewed more than 1 million suspected terrorist videos on YouTube in the first three months of 2019, according to a letter the tech giant sent to US lawmakers. From a report: In the April 24 letter, made public Thursday as part of a press release from the House Committee on Homeland Security, Google said 90,000 of those videos violated its terrorism policy. Google, which owns YouTube, said it spends "hundreds of millions of dollars annually" on content review. The House committee urged Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to do a better job of removing violent content, following posts about the deadly New Zealand mosque shooting in March. In April, Rep. Max Rose and other Democrats asked for the websites' budgets, to see how the platforms were fighting terrorism.
800,000 of them were Japanese anime and American c (Score:1)
Batman and Superman are as much terrorists as Char Aznable.
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Don't you have a pokemon to catch or something?
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Indeed, catching them, keeping them in those tiny boxes all squeezed and compressed, then they get thrown on the ground to fight each other, only to force them through insane mutations ...
Excuse me, me and the tissue box would like to have a private moment.
And the most dramatic terrorist video... (Score:2, Insightful)
A Caucasian mother, father, son and daughter enjoying a barbecue with the father wearing a MAGA hat.
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What is the timezone used for the timestamps? The story was posted at 07:01PM, which was the middle of the night in Europe but I guess the evening in whatever US timezone it is.
It's interesting that someone tagged this story "whitemaleboogyman". In other words the only people who find it controversial are the freeze peach dudes complaining that white men are now considered terrorists and are getting censored. It's basically uncontroversial and what most people expect YouTube to be doing, and most of the obj
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Only on the flypaper stories that are supposed to catch the political trolls so we can have a sensible discussion elsewhere.
18 AC (Score:3)
Half plate gets you an AC of 15, a shield is good for two more. You only need a 12 DEX to get to 18 AC from there.
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Yeah, well if you have a 14 DEX, downgrade to breastplate and you won't incur DA on stealth but will still have an 18 AC.
(I wonder what proportion of readers have no clue what we're going on about.)
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a niche that nobody wants to fill (Score:2)
You'd think from seeing the production values in the beheading webms that leak down to the internet toilet sites, that someone could get rich hosting an all-terrorist-video site. Every rational person on earth would block it, but they could put them up there regardless, and then fake the view counts.
Sponsorship might be a problem, unless you're an arms dealer.
Also moderating the damn thing would require the services of sociopaths.
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You'd think from seeing the production values in the beheading webms that leak down to the internet toilet sites, that someone could get rich hosting an all-terrorist-video site. Every rational person on earth would block it, but they could put them up there regardless, and then fake the view counts.
Sponsorship might be a problem, unless you're an arms dealer.
Also moderating the damn thing would require the services of sociopaths.
I nominate Anonymous Coward to moderate. That person seems to fit the bill for a sociopath. Especially if a fascination with nazi faggots is a plus as that seems to be every other sentence.
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Credit where due, thank you. I wasn't actually auditioning for that job though, it appears to suck. Let AI handle the nazi vermin.
AC out.
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LiveLeak has been living off shock video for years now. If there's money in the terrorist videos, then they'd be running them.
Good (Score:3)
Maybe they can post a list of the best of them. I'm tired of having to dig through the low quality terrorist crap.
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Maybe a YouTube Terror Review at the end of the year?
Can't be worse than the "normal" one they had last year.
Terrorism and 'such as'?!? (Score:2)
So 'We do not permit terrorist organizations to use this service for any purpose, including recruitment. We also strictly prohibit content related to terrorism, such as content that promotes terrorist acts, incites violence, or celebrates terrorist attacks. If posting content related to terrorism for an educational, documentary, scientific, or artistic purpose, be mindful to provide enough information so viewers understand the context.' https://support.google.com/con... [google.com]. So basically use the word terrorist
"hundreds of millions of dollars annually" on cont (Score:2)
So here we have Big Brother Google - a megacorp with vast monopoly power and deep links to the gestapo - by it's own admission spending hundreds of millions every year on censorship.
Yet some people (perhaps 3 of whom are not paid shills) still believe corporate censorship is not a major political problem...
This is a key issue with "the global common" (Score:2)
Back in the day (80s and before) people had interests and usually a magazine or two related to it. In the back of the magazines were ads for content and stuff (and lots of videos and cassette tapes). Think of these as little bity Amazon's, but for specific topics and more distributed (sort of, comparable to Amazon Marketplace).
People choose their interests (at the bookstore/library) and weren't directly exposed to things they didn't care about.
Enter the internet. One can find almost anything.
YouTube is t
Google's ads are terrorist attacks (Score:1)
Marketers are terrorists. Derka derka market jihad!
How many videos are uploaded each day? (Score:2)
Tomatometer (Score:2)
Lazy reviewers? (Score:2)