YouTube and UK move to auto-censor videos. Angry? Let's do something about it.

http://mediagoblin.org/news/do-something-about-censorship.html

by paroneayea • 12 years ago

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Giraffenstein• 12 years ago

"YouTube and UK move to auto-censor videos."

This is a bold claim that goes unsupported by the article linked.

The closest we get is a quote from an Irish Times article:

"The YouTube permissions that Google has given the Home Office in recent weeks include the power to flag swaths of content “at scale” instead of only picking out individual videos."

I'm not sure what "at scale" means in this context, but it sounds substantially different than "automated censorship." I see no indication that any automation will occur. Frankly, the article linked has a perfectly fine headline already:

"Mad About Government Censorship? Let’s do something about it."

I'm not sure why an inaccurate headline with claims that are in all likelihood unfounded was used instead.

YouTube and UK move to auto-censor videos. Angry? Let's do something about it.

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