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Google deletes “communist bandits” from comments on Youtube

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1783 points zaggynl | 1 comments | 18 May 20 15:04 UTC | HN request time: 0.26s | source
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ddevault ◴[18 May 20 15:27 UTC] No.23223542[source]▶
Google & YouTube employees on HN: how do you justify still working at this company? Enough of the cognitive dissonance. Face your choices and tell me how you square yourself with them. For shame.
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ravenstine ◴[18 May 20 15:32 UTC] No.23223644[source]▶
It might be easy to say this, but I believe I would quit if I was asked to implement something like that. But perhaps I'd be different if I were paid $300k a year. (I sure hope not, though)
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1. shadowgovt ◴[18 May 20 15:54 UTC] No.23224025[source]▶
by "like that" do you mean "a community moderation system" or "a system for the CCP to backdoor explicit takedown rules into the system?"

Based on what we're seeing right now, this is likely caused not by the latter, but by the former. Consider: the ML-assisted thread moderation logic can be vulnerable to brigading. If several tens of thousands of Chinese people decided to start flagging comments with that phrase, YT would also start killing the phrase (because its sample is biased towards seeing "That phrase usually results in a flag, so the community clearly doesn't want it").