> list of arbitrarily banned words is that the list is arbitrary
It's not arbitrary, it's a community norm.
Not everyone in a community agrees with its norms, but enough people do to keep it a norm.
As community norms change, the rules change.
It's not arbitrary, it's a community norm.
Not everyone in a community agrees with its norms, but enough people do to keep it a norm.
As community norms change, the rules change.
Just like it's weird to hear talking about god as a justification for politics, or people self censoring 'nigger' into the 'n word' in a conversation reporting the usage of the word. Or hidding nipples but showing violent death. Or demonetizing videos showing pics of september 11 in a respectful context.
It's power because the american culture is strong enough to impose the view of a subset of communities to the rest of the world.
I have plenty of websites using cookies, but because we are not invading your privacy, we don't need a banner.
You are blaming laws adding informed consent instead of the bullies that milk every cent out of spying. Instead of learning, wow the web is rotten there is so much tracking, you complain to the doctor showing you cancer in your lung.
Also, what's funny is that this banner is only legal in europe, we don't impose it on the rest of the world. Again, corporations decided it was just easier to apply it to everyone. They have a choice.
But we can't uncensor youtube content. We dont have a choice. I'd be ok with a pop up "this video contain images of september 11, do you want to watch it uncensored?" that is mandatory only to americans. But we don't have that. Instead, the video is either not published, or removed from any way to discover it.
Not to mention comparing the need for a click, and the addition of a choice to not be tracked, cannot remotely be compared to forced format for most content. It's neither of the same nature, nor the same scale.
Even if you don't agree with any of that, the initial point of the comment stands: it's a matter of power.
Wrong, it’s because the EU wrote the law so poorly that every site is able to create their own cookie gate with its own dark patterns so now we have to solve what is essentially a puzzle on every website which then decides of we’re tracked or not.
If it had been written competently it would have been a browser setting and we’d have never seen a dialog once.
Sure the intentions were good but the action on those intentions adds up to wasting probably hours or people’s time a year considering it’s every single major website.
The companies choose whether to continue acting badly (but having to tell you, if you're in the EU); or to act kindly and so have no need to inform you they're doing something malicious.
There is already a "do not track" setting in browsers. Companies choose whether to annoy you or not.
But instead they had to make a new thing that’s just ended up being abused. The face sites can even force you to wait a few seconds if you don’t opt in is insane.
There is no reason why it had to be a dialog, it’s just an arbitrary choice by career bureaucrats that now we have to experience at least once a day.
And, realistically, the cookie banner addresses this how?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Mte6z7TQI
Stop making excuses for this horrible company.
Or do we truly live in a world where all sorts of horrors have become socially acceptable yet a static image of a cartoon frog is deemed "adult content"?
Thousands of warehouses filled with human beings trying to manage all of this manually would introduce far, far more errors and bias.
If you hate YouTube then don't use it. There are plenty of competitors.
My emails aren't returned and every phone call only reaches people who have neither the ability nor the authority to fix the problem.
Today AT&T called me, not with a solution, but with offers for twenty percent off wireless service. Now that I'm a customer, I'm on every marketing list, but I cannot access the service I paid for.
AT&T's system is full of mistakes, and they haven't set up a functional system to let people get the mistakes fixed.
I believe AT&T is an evil and malicious organization for other reasons, but the fact they are denying me internet connectivity is not one of them.
This is either garden-variety incompetence, or it's a business decision that there's no ROI in fixing every broken process and edge case.
It's not a handful. Also, who cares if it's evil, malice, or incompetence, it's happening and it is YouTube that is making the mistakes.
I think you might also be missing the point, people are annoyed at that there's no way to rectify these mistakes or speak to a reasonable agent of the company more so than that they happen in the first place.
Algorithmic moderation could be okay, so long as you have the necessary human operated escape hatches, since you are in fact impacting humans with your algorithms in very real ways. There needs to be some point that you can talk to a human with the power to be reasonable.
Society has always had “outgroups”, to which anything is permissible. In medieval times, there were literal “outlaws”, to which laws did not apply, people who were fair game for anybody to kill without repercussions. Later, there were witches, satanists, heretics, anarchists, bolsheviks, jews, communists, homosexuals, pedophiles, terrorists, nazis, racists, and fascists. At some point in that list, your mind might have just said “But those people deserve it!”. But labels are mostly applied by other people; nobody declared themselves a witch. Do you truly want the law to be so weak as to not protect you, should you someday find yourself labeled and put on that list?
That cartoon frog is, currently, on the list.
At least we can still criticize the President. I wonder how long that will last.