Saturday, December 9, 2017

Zaida Green - Google hiring 10,000 reviewers to censor YouTube content

We've always been told that the West is the bastion of free speech. 

Google is escalating its campaign of internet censorship, announcing that it will expand its workforce of human censors to over 10,000, the internet giant announced on December 4. The censors’ primary focus will be videos and other content on YouTube, its video-sharing platform, but will work across Google to censor content and train its automated systems, which remove videos at a rate four times faster than its human employees.

Human censors have already reviewed over 2 million videos since June. YouTube has already removed over 150,000 videos, 50 percent of which were removed within two hours of upload. The company is working to accelerate the rate of takedown through machine-learning from manual censorship, according to YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki in an official blog post.

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Zaida Green - Google hiring 10,000 reviewers to censor YouTube content

3 comments:

GLH said...

The other day Tom Hickey recommended DuckDuckGo as being better than Google. Has anyone tried Firefox recently. Check this out: https://www.howtogeek.com/333393/why-i-switched-from-chrome-to-firefox-quantum/

Tom Hickey said...

I use several browsers on a regular basis. Firefox Quantum is great improvement over the old version.

I am on a Mac as use Safari, Firefox, Vivaldi, Brave, Chrome, Tor, and Opera for different purposes. There are tradeoffs with everything.

Noah Way said...

I had to give up the old FF because of instability and crashes. I'll give this one a go.