For the sake of future searchers everywhere: "There was a youtube video banned by showing a 3 second clip where a guy repeated the word fuck".
/me looks at the sky above waiting to be struck by lightning.
/me looks at the sky above waiting to be struck by lightning.
Abbreviated, censored, or light profanity (like “hell” or “damn”) in the title, thumbnail, or video. Moderate profanity (like “shit” or “bitch”) used in the video. Infrequent usage of strong profanity (like the "f-word”) after the opening or up to twice in approx. the first 30 seconds of the video; or strong profanity in a music video.
So a video can drop an f-bomb twice in the first 30 seconds but a few times across 10 seconds of the video is frequent?
They're probably running scripts on the content and likely not basing decisions on human review of any kind.
If they have any human review, it's probably contactors, reviewing only the 3 second clip of the 1.5 hr video, the tiny part that was flagged by the algorithm and understanding very little.
This is more than a one dimensional “just don’t have any curse words or non family friendly content in your videos because it’s entirely your own fault if YouTube flags it capriciously ” kind of issue.
Too many times I’ve heard of this failure mode. Did humanity fundamentally lost against AI?
There is not even a word spoken in it.
Why did user choice go away?
More importantly, while he could use youtube's tools to remove the profanity, it doesn't matter because they've also flagged it for Sex and Nudity.
> You know the boundary exists
From the article, the video doesn't appear to break any of the publicly given rules. Likely it breaks some internal rule they use for judgement (X swears in Y seconds). The creator claims they'd be fine adjusting accordingly if Youtube gave some stance to follow - problem is pouring a ton of work into a huge video and only then having it unexpectedly restricted due to uncommunicated rules.
But more to the point, Youtube is not the MPAA. The documentary seems to comply to Youtube's publicly given rules more so than a huge number of other unrestricted videos, which makes the restriction unexpected.
It was a long time ago I watched it, but weren't the orgies just implied?
Grandma and I found out that day that TV networks edited out full frontal nudity.
The problem is that an opaque moderation and appeals process is causing real harm to creators on the platform who are making good faith efforts to follow the rules.