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The Google-owned video platform, YouTube, had just deleted 500 million comments as a result of its fight against hate speech. This comments were deleted for violating YouTube recently-expanded rules on hate speech.
According to the blog post, the Google-owned video platform said:
"large increase in hate speech removals” had led to the 500 million purged comments — doubling the number of comments that were removed during quarter one."
"Another 100,000 videos were deleted for hate speech violations, along with 17,000 channels that were terminated also for breaking hate speech rules; both represented a “5x spike” from the prior quarter."
The move to start deleting these comments commenced when YouTube expanded its hate speech policy in June. Then YouTube had alleged that:
"a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status.”
The new rule also included videos that “glorify Nazi ideology, which is inherently discriminatory."
- Wojcicki Susan commented on this rule last week saying that:
“A commitment to openness is not easy. It sometimes means leaving up content that is outside the mainstream, controversial or even offensive. “But I believe that hearing a broad range of perspectives ultimately makes us a stronger and more informed society, even if we disagree with some of those views.”
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