Tragic YouTube shooting casts new light on creators' "adpocalypse" complaints
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/how-youtubes-adpocalypse-may-have-figured-in-its-tuesday-campus-shooting/ The shooting has put a massive spotlight on this topic, which, up until now, has been more likely to appear in angry YouTube videos than on major newspaper headlines. But well before this shooting, Aghdam was just one of many voices on the site to cry foul about YouTube's policies. - - - Google absolutely needs to control the content on their platforms, including YouTube. Obviously, I have strongly urged that they exercise suitable controls. The dilemma occurs when such new enforcement regimes and other changes are put in place in the absence of suitably transparent and fair appeal and escalation procedures -- a situation that can enormously enhance aggrieved users' sense that they have not gotten a fair shake. I'll be back on my usual venue on "Coast to Coast AM" radio tonight around 10:06PM PDT or so to discuss this for a few minutes. Also please see: "Tragically, the YouTube Shooting Attack Is Not a Complete Surprise" - https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/04/04/tragically-the-youtube-shooting-attack-is-not-a-complete-surprise --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): 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
