YouTube issues a new strike against Alex Jones' channel over hate speech and child endangerment
https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/25/17613492/youtube-alex-jones-strike-hate-speech-child-endangerment Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' YouTube channel received a strike on Tuesday for violating the site's community guidelines, The Verge has learned. YouTube removed four videos from Jones' channel, which has 2.4 million subscribers, that contained instances of hate speech and child endangerment, sources familiar with the matter said. YouTube channels are deleted if they get three strikes in a three-month period. - - - For the record, I generally feel that YouTube's policy of "bundling" strikes is a reasonable procedure, since it helps avoid innocent users being hit with multiple fake complaints from having their channel suddenly disappear completely overnight. The bundling gives affected users time to file an appeal in such cases. Of course, Alex Jones is guilty as sin, but it's crucial for Google to apply its policies in an evenhanded manner -- which unfortunately is not always the case. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list https://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad
