YouTube shuts down 210 Chinese channels posting about Hong Kong(cnn.com)
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YouTube shuts down 210 Chinese channels posting about Hong Kong
https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/22/tech/youtube-china-hong-kong/index.html
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I'd consider the extradition bill not-very-democratic, doubly so in the HK is a somewhat autonomous zone, so forcing extradition reduces it's autonomy and therefore it's citizens' democracy.
So how is this false?
So how is this false?
CNN is no longer a reliable news source.
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I really wish the cyberpunk novels I read in my youth would stop becoming reality. Especially Distraction by Bruce Sterling comes to mind. It’s just so crazy that political entities run false campaigns, and that the impact of these campaigns is so profound.
I’m happy YouTube is fighting back, but at the same time I can’t help but wonder if our social media platforms are really geared to fight it. With so many hours of video uploaded, it seems impossible to regulate. I imagine that they are trying their best, but aren’t SEO people showing us every day, that it’s fairly easy to game the system? The worst part is the apparent lack of consequences. Does the Chinese government really care 210 of their propaganda channels were shut down?
I’m happy YouTube is fighting back, but at the same time I can’t help but wonder if our social media platforms are really geared to fight it. With so many hours of video uploaded, it seems impossible to regulate. I imagine that they are trying their best, but aren’t SEO people showing us every day, that it’s fairly easy to game the system? The worst part is the apparent lack of consequences. Does the Chinese government really care 210 of their propaganda channels were shut down?
They’ll get better. They have to or someone will replace them. This kind of propaganda is a disease in a system that has not evolved to identify/combat it systematically.
I wonder if this is a trail run for many of these companies for the
US presidential election.
Not everything is about the US elections. Hong Kong's future is independently important.
There is conjecture floating around that Google/Facebook/Twitter are flexing their anti-propoganda muscles to avoid government regulation. ("See? We can block state actors all on our own")
Are there any details released about FB/Twitter/Youtube removals other than we think these are state actors? I know twitter released a data dump but has there been any analysis? It's not that the problem isn't worth addressing, but non of these companies has had a good record with moderating political topics so far. There was complaints a few months back by Chinese YouTuber who cater to Chinese audiences that their subscriber and likes weren't comporting to like/vote/subscriber/dashboard statistics, most people just chalked it up to automatic VPN flagging. I'd like a little more transparency, otherwise it appears western social media is validating and devolving towards Great Fire Wall.
Youtube hasn't stated it was state actors, merely that they were suspicious (e.g. uploaded via VPN).. i.e it hasn't pointed a finger of blame.
Not sure there is much analysis to be done here besides interpretive fan fiction.
The primary source https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/m... is a lot more opaque than Twitter's announcement.
The primary source https://www.blog.google/outreach-initiatives/public-policy/m... is a lot more opaque than Twitter's announcement.
Jesus, do Donie O'Sullivan and Kevin Collier, article authors even have a slight idea what HK protests are about? Those protests started to oppose a bill regarding extraditing to mainland China. Later on as the tension and police brutality escalated those points were added. Here is the 5 points the protesters are demanding now:
1- the bill must be withdrawn (this was the initial motive for protests)
2- the chief executive must resign (he ordered to police to start retaliatons)
3- the government must retract its characterisation of the violent clashes as “riots”
4- there must be a full independent inquiry into the actions of the police
5- everyone arrested in respect of the clashes must be unconditionally freed.