{"id":43857,"date":"2019-02-16T10:41:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-16T15:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43857"},"modified":"2019-02-16T10:41:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T15:41:22","slug":"youtube-will-determine-what-conspiracy-is-and-stop-recommending-such-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43857","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Will Determine What \u2018Conspiracy\u2019 Is and Stop Recommending Such Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2019\/02\/11\/youtube-will-determine-what-conspiracy-is-and-stop-recommending-such-videos\/#more-56045\">YouTube Will Determine What \u2018Conspiracy\u2019 Is and Stop Recommending Such Videos<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Screen-Shot-2019-02-11-at-2.46.00-PM.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-56056\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the evolution of Google\u2019s YouTube from a free expression platform into something entirely different has been underway for a while, it just took another step in a very short-sighted and restrictive direction.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/youtube-announces-it-will-no-longer-recommend-conspiracy-videos-n969856?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_ma\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>NBC News<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p class=\"\"><em>YouTube has announced that it will no longer recommend videos that \u201ccome close to\u201d violating its community guidelines, such as conspiracy or medically inaccurate videos\u2026Chaslot said that YouTube\u2019s fix to its recommendations&nbsp;<strong>AI will have to include getting people to videos with truthful information<\/strong>&nbsp;and overhauling the current system it uses to recommend videos.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s a lot to unpack here so let\u2019s get started. First, it appears YouTube has announced the creation of a new bucket when it comes to content uploaded to the site. It\u2019s no longer just videos consistent with company guidelines and those that aren\u2019t, but there\u2019s now a category for \u201cconspiracy or medically inaccurate videos.\u201d This is a massive responsibility, which neither YouTube or anyone else seems fit to be judge and jury. In other words, YouTube is saying it\u2019s comfortable deciding what is \u201cconspiracy\u201d and what isn\u2019t. Which brings up a really important question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyBlitz\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/profile_images\/1029548683346362368\/IY43U0MK_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyBlitz\"><strong><\/strong><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LibertyBlitz\/status\/1095050030602305536\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So no videos of government officials lying the public into wars, or is that the Silicon Valley approved type conspiracy?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBCNews\/status\/1094682795673337857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><\/strong><strong>\u2714<\/strong>https:\/\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cConspiracy\u201d and covering up conspiracies is a fundamental part of the human experience, and always has been. It demonstrates extreme hubris for a tech giant to claim it can differentiate between a legitimate conspiracy to explore, versus an illegitimate one. One person\u2019s righteous investigation is another\u2019s conspiracy theory, with Russiagate serving as an obvious contemporary example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube Will Determine What \u2018Conspiracy\u2019 Is and Stop Recommending Such Videos While the evolution of Google\u2019s YouTube from a free expression platform into something entirely different has been underway for a while, it just took another step in a very short-sighted and restrictive direction.&nbsp;NBC News&nbsp;reports: YouTube has announced that it will no longer recommend videos [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[120,158,378,6174,3931],"class_list":["post-43857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-censorship","tag-conspiracy","tag-google","tag-michael-krieger","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43858,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43857\/revisions\/43858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}