YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult the CCP (opens in new tab)

(theverge.com)

86 pointsbobbydroptables6y ago11 comments

11 comments

11 comments · 6 top-level

antoncohen6y ago· 3 in thread

The key thing here is that Ars Technica got YouTube to respond:

> "This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," YouTube said.

calibas6y ago

Too bad this post has already been removed from the front page of HN. It barely survived 30 minutes.

Yetanfou6y ago

That is one of the reasons to stop using the front page of sites like HN (and lobste.rs and other similar 'popularity-driven' sites) and access the site through the RSS feed. This way you get to see all posts, popularity be damned. On news sites it sometimes gives an interesting insight in the editing process where they first rush out with articles with descriptive titles only to change the title (and, often, the article) to something less descriptive but more 'correct'.

vuln6y ago

Why wouldn’t they update the support ticket? Their statement seems very boiler plate. “It’s a glitch, we’re looking into it”. Weird it took all this attention for that little statement.

Vysero6y ago· 1 in thread

I would be interested in seeing a list of all the banned phrases for some perspective. It's hard for me to understand why they would ban these phrases in particular. From the outside looking it it would certainly seem that Google is taking it's cues from the Chinese government directly on this matter.

Udik6y ago

Yes, I suspect (as another commenter said) that these might be phrases that have been used in some 'political spamming' campaign flooding youtube with hundreds of thousands of OT comments on random videos. So they might have been treated as garbage and deleted.

I can understand that if every youtube video starts to be spammed with "Trump sucks" comments, Youtube might decide to auto-delete them. It doesn't have to be pro-Trump censorship.

qwerty1234576y ago· 1 in thread

Clickbait/fake news.

Proper title is "Youtube auto-deletes lots of phrases that are commonly used by spammers, including phrases critical of the Chinese government"

manuelabeledo6y ago

This seems to be likely. Google has an awful track of things like this.

dmix6y ago

This one was 1224 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219

vuln6y ago

Looks like no response on the support ticket. Upvotes keep growing...

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/19190975?hl=en

4cao6y ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305149

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

11 comments

11 comments · 6 top-level

antoncohen6y ago· 3 in thread

The key thing here is that Ars Technica got YouTube to respond:

> "This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," YouTube said.

calibas6y ago

Too bad this post has already been removed from the front page of HN. It barely survived 30 minutes.

Yetanfou6y ago

vuln6y ago

Why wouldn’t they update the support ticket? Their statement seems very boiler plate. “It’s a glitch, we’re looking into it”. Weird it took all this attention for that little statement.

Vysero6y ago· 1 in thread

Udik6y ago

I can understand that if every youtube video starts to be spammed with "Trump sucks" comments, Youtube might decide to auto-delete them. It doesn't have to be pro-Trump censorship.

qwerty1234576y ago· 1 in thread

Clickbait/fake news.

Proper title is "Youtube auto-deletes lots of phrases that are commonly used by spammers, including phrases critical of the Chinese government"

manuelabeledo6y ago

This seems to be likely. Google has an awful track of things like this.

dmix6y ago

This one was 1224 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23223219

vuln6y ago

Looks like no response on the support ticket. Upvotes keep growing...

https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/19190975?hl=en

4cao6y ago

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23305149

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse