"Hate Speech"
Moderation AI is doing a bad job considering language, culture, and context
AI just doesn’t understand context and it’s censoring people for no reason.
YouTube removes congressional candidate Joey Salads’ Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy video for “hate speech”
It’s not clear what constitutes “hate speech”. Salads was only asking the same questions as many other people reacting to the Epstein suicide.
White House invites tech companies to summit about violent online extremism
The announcement comes after Jim Watkins, owner of the online imageboard 8chan, was called to testify before Congress in relation to allegations that the El Paso shooter posted a manifesto to his site.
Soph’s merch store suspended less than a week after she was deplatformed by Patreon and YouTube
Soph is responding by embracing alt-tech such as Gab, BitChute, DLive, and Bitcoin.
Barack Obama calls on internet platforms to reduce the influence of hate groups
Obama made the comments in response to media reports about the El Paso shooter posting a manifesto to 8chan.
Patreon suspends Soph’s account one day after YouTube deleted her channel
Soph online accounts have been sanctioned multiple times since BuzzFeed published a hit piece about her in May.
YouTube deletes Soph’s channel after her latest video was removed for “hate speech”
Soph has had multiple videos removed and faced temporary suspensions after she was the subject of a BuzzFeed hit piece in May.
Twitch streamer Anomaly banned for accidentally showing less than two seconds of Hitler Minecraft skin
This is the latest controversial ban that highlights Twitch’s inconsistent application of its rules.
YouTube chief proposes “positive discrimination” of “authoritative sources” like CNN over indie creators
YouTube appears to be turning its back on the users that built the platform.
Instagram mass suspends 30+ meme accounts with over 33 million total followers
Instagram previously mass-purged meme accounts from its platform at the end of 2018.
YouTube deletes Dave Collum Quoth the Raven podcast episode about conspiracy theories for “hate speech”
Yet another example that questioning the official narrative is now prohibited on YouTube.
Irish journalist Gemma O’Doherty continues to protest outside Google offices after being censored by YouTube
O’Doherty has criticized YouTube for removing her content and for targeted censorship.