-72 points

According to the article, the videos feature nudity and possibly sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is unfortunately a fact of life, and it’s probably better that children recognise it, and see it condemned in the media they watch, than not know what it is at all. And you would have to be a puritan to think that children seeing naked people is somehow so terrible.

permalink
report
reply
35 points

But their channels for children… not just random channels. There is a difference.

permalink
report
parent
reply
23 points

If you bothered reading the very short article, it would be very clear that people are deliberately getting children subscribers than replacing the flow of new content with attempts to brainwash them or expose them to obscenity.

permalink
report
parent
reply
16 points

It’s not even that, it’s to shock them so they keep engaging with the channel, telling their friends, etc. which increases ad impressions until they are caught.

Then they create a new channel and start again.

This is Elsagate 2 but with more nefarious tactics.

permalink
report
parent
reply
15 points
*

Imagine arguing that it’s actually good for kids to watch women being harassed. Peak incel.

edit: Dude is literally a “race realist”. lol smh.

permalink
report
parent
reply
-1 points

What is a ‘race realist’?

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

Maybe they realize race is not a biological term but rather a racist term. It’s a way to distinguish us from them because we are darker or are shorter or taller than the standard sized/colored/shaped group.

Race does not equal species. We are all one single species, the homosapiens.

permalink
report
parent
reply
28 points
*

So Elsagate never stopped?

This has to be a state actor thing, nobody else has the resources to deploy such a long lasting and changing content farm. Some psyops to fuck future generations of adults up?

permalink
report
reply
15 points

YT Ultra

permalink
report
parent
reply
17 points

Never doubt the impact bad incentives can have on a large group of individual actors.

permalink
report
parent
reply
46 points

Again?

permalink
report
reply
44 points

Meanwhile I can’t even upload commercials for archival purposes without getting copyright strikes on my account. How is YouTube so bad at this.

permalink
report
reply
5 points

Because that’s the way the legal system works.

“Oops, had some harmful/illegal content on there? Nobody was /really/ hurt, or at least, we weren’t directly causing harm. I’ll take it down and eat a small fine.

Vs

“Oh I’m sorry, I’ll take down the 30s clip of your 90s movie. it has caused you 3million in damages? I’m so sorry, here’s some tools that will automate detection and removal of your property. I’m so sorry”

permalink
report
parent
reply
22 points

Copyright protection is easy. Detection of novel forms of obscenity is hard.

I’d argue it’s extremely hard, even.

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

You know, as much as I hate it… “you know it when you see I but hard to definet” really is accurate.

There’s plenty of things that aren’t outright illegal that are completely inappropriate around children.

And if there are things that are context specific, it gets a lot harder to make a computer recognize a problem.

Audio cues are easy to scan for and computers are pretty good at recognizing sounds, especially in regards to copyright detection (even if their interpretation of “fair use” clause is still fucked 6 ways)

Video is a lot harder unless the computer is trying to match direct images (it’s a lot easier to recognize a still frame from The Avengers when it’s uploaded full size than it is to recognize a slightly warped, smaller cropped version with someone in front of it commenting on the video)

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

More importantly it’s expensive.

permalink
report
parent
reply
3 points

also, they don’t want care.

permalink
report
parent
reply
108 points

Again, or still?

permalink
report
reply
43 points

Yes.

permalink
report
parent
reply
14 points

me, thinking of elsagate

First time?

permalink
report
parent
reply

Technology

!technology@lemmy.world

Create post

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related content.
  3. Be excellent to each another!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots


Community stats

  • 15K

    Monthly active users

  • 6.7K

    Posts

  • 153K

    Comments