Censorship policies backfire on The Atlantic
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🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Youtube's system flagged and restricted a video from The Atlantic depicting a meeting of the Alt Right. This video was important news coverage of a newsworthy event and youtube conflated it with h-a-t-e speech.
The second story has to do with Facebook suspending the account of the Cambridge Analytica whistleblower.
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| 0:00.0 | What's the point of censorship on social media? |
| 0:02.8 | Why do these big social media networks ban certain users, restrict certain content, demonetize some accounts? |
| 0:10.1 | Is it because they want to get rid of hate speech? Is it because they have a political leaning and they think, |
| 0:15.1 | you know what people shouldn't be saying these things? Or is it because they want to protect their |
| 0:20.0 | business and make money? Now I know a lot of people are going to accuse the big social media |
| 0:24.8 | platforms of having a political agenda. And while I think there's reason to believe that maybe |
| 0:29.6 | the case, certainly many people who work in Silicon Valley are very left leaning. So obviously |
| 0:34.0 | conservatives feel slided. But is that really it? Or is it really just these companies want to |
| 0:38.9 | protect their business and make sure they can retain advertisers? I certainly think that's the case. |
| 0:44.0 | Today we have two instances of censorship that are pretty terrifying. The first, a backfire, |
| 0:49.8 | the Atlantic magazine had one of their videos placed in restricted mode and they had to appeal it. |
| 0:56.0 | But the scarier story is when Facebook censored a whistleblower because what the whistleblower said |
| 1:01.9 | was damaging to Facebook. |
| 1:10.1 | It's one thing. If someone is banned, restricted if a video is restricted and it's an accident, |
| 1:15.6 | certainly it's problematic. It presents us a lot of issues. But if it's an accident, we can sort of |
| 1:21.0 | understand it while still criticizing the failure. It's another thing. When Facebook's stock value |
| 1:26.8 | plummets due to a whistleblower, so they suspend the account of the whistleblower, that is when |
| 1:33.0 | censorship gets particularly scary. But before I get into all that, let me give a quick shout out |
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