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The political censorship has increased on Youtube amid the filtering of the Chinese word “Gong Fei” on the platform 1/3
Internet users have found that YouTube- an overseas online video sharing platform, is automatically filtering the comments with the Chinese word “gongfei” (literally means “Communist Bandit” in Mandarin). YouTube has previously been alleged of cracking down on freedom of speech by labelling videos regarding Covid-19 as “Not suitable for most advertisers” with a yellow dollar sign. These series of events made the public questions whether the political censorship on YouTube platform has connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Editor’s Note:
“Gong Fei“ literally means “Communist Bandit” in Mandarin
#YouTube #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech
Source: PTT, NTDTV
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The political censorship has increased on Youtube amid the filtering of the Chinese word “Gong Fei” on the platform 1/3
Internet users have found that YouTube- an overseas online video sharing platform, is automatically filtering the comments with the Chinese word “gongfei” (literally means “Communist Bandit” in Mandarin). YouTube has previously been alleged of cracking down on freedom of speech by labelling videos regarding Covid-19 as “Not suitable for most advertisers” with a yellow dollar sign. These series of events made the public questions whether the political censorship on YouTube platform has connections with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).
Editor’s Note:
“Gong Fei“ literally means “Communist Bandit” in Mandarin
#YouTube #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech
Source: PTT, NTDTV
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The political censorship has increased on Youtube amid the filtering of the Chinese word “Gong Fei” on the platform 2/3
On 13 May, many Chinese-spaking YouTube users found that any comments they left in any YouTube video’s comment section that contains the phrase “gongfei” will be removed by the platform--soon it was confirmed by many other YouTube users. According to the video provided by one of the YouTube users, the comment “gongfei” initially can be displayed in the comment section, but it disappeared only seconds later when the user refreshed the page. The user tried for three consecutive times, and found that comments with “gongfei” would be filtered within 15 seconds after posting. The user believed that YouTube has some kind of algorithm that will censor “sensitive words”.
https://twitter.com/shijianxingzou/status/1260460855717777415
Such a way of censoring “sensitive words” is very secretive and hard to discovered as Internet users normally won’t come back and check whether their comment has been successfully posted as long as it has been initially displayed.
YouTube’s action soon caused great attention among the Chinese-speaking users and many of them condemned the censorship and expressed their anger and disappointment. Some users wondered if YouTube found a more capable AI expert than Li Feifei while some others said disappointedly that “Money can make anyone do anything”
User @DrplumberUS said that he posted the phrases “gongfei” and “meidi” (literally means “American Empire”) in the Youtube’s comment section for five times respectively and found “gongfei” was all automatically filtered by YouTube while “Meidi”, however, was successfully posted
User @Feng1990122 also commented that “I posted in the entertainment channels based in the US and it’s true. Looks like there is a Chinese Communist Party branch in Google.
User @sitaideng said:” Onshore US citizens shall sue Google and Youtube for cracking down on freedom of speech.”
@Jumplittlefox is calling internet users to express their disagreement on Google’s censorship because “if you remain silent today, there will be more ‘sensitive phrases’ on YouTube, and eventually the platform will become exactly the same as Chinese social media software. But I don’t think this will happen because the Westerners will soon realize the issue and fight back.”
@SZheng1967 pointed out that “the evil Communist Party is dominating the Western Media. Western people are making deals with the evil and are surrendering themselves to the Communist Party--such action has caused great concerns to the world. We are here to urge the shareholders to take good care of their enterprise’s managing board for the sake of our next generation and for the sake of the entire human race. If you guys keep making deals with evil, there will be greater disasters in the near future!”
And other Internet user said that by filtering the word “gongfei” and yet turn a blind eye to “meidi”--a phrase that commonly used by the Chinese army of trolls to criticize the US Government, it’s obvious that YouTube is pro-Chinese Communist Party when it comes to the censorship of the comments and they’re urging US Government to take precaution measures.
#Youtube #CCP #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech
Source: PTT, Twitter, NTDTV
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The political censorship has increased on Youtube amid the filtering of the Chinese word “Gong Fei” on the platform 2/3
On 13 May, many Chinese-spaking YouTube users found that any comments they left in any YouTube video’s comment section that contains the phrase “gongfei” will be removed by the platform--soon it was confirmed by many other YouTube users. According to the video provided by one of the YouTube users, the comment “gongfei” initially can be displayed in the comment section, but it disappeared only seconds later when the user refreshed the page. The user tried for three consecutive times, and found that comments with “gongfei” would be filtered within 15 seconds after posting. The user believed that YouTube has some kind of algorithm that will censor “sensitive words”.
https://twitter.com/shijianxingzou/status/1260460855717777415
Such a way of censoring “sensitive words” is very secretive and hard to discovered as Internet users normally won’t come back and check whether their comment has been successfully posted as long as it has been initially displayed.
YouTube’s action soon caused great attention among the Chinese-speaking users and many of them condemned the censorship and expressed their anger and disappointment. Some users wondered if YouTube found a more capable AI expert than Li Feifei while some others said disappointedly that “Money can make anyone do anything”
User @DrplumberUS said that he posted the phrases “gongfei” and “meidi” (literally means “American Empire”) in the Youtube’s comment section for five times respectively and found “gongfei” was all automatically filtered by YouTube while “Meidi”, however, was successfully posted
User @Feng1990122 also commented that “I posted in the entertainment channels based in the US and it’s true. Looks like there is a Chinese Communist Party branch in Google.
User @sitaideng said:” Onshore US citizens shall sue Google and Youtube for cracking down on freedom of speech.”
@Jumplittlefox is calling internet users to express their disagreement on Google’s censorship because “if you remain silent today, there will be more ‘sensitive phrases’ on YouTube, and eventually the platform will become exactly the same as Chinese social media software. But I don’t think this will happen because the Westerners will soon realize the issue and fight back.”
@SZheng1967 pointed out that “the evil Communist Party is dominating the Western Media. Western people are making deals with the evil and are surrendering themselves to the Communist Party--such action has caused great concerns to the world. We are here to urge the shareholders to take good care of their enterprise’s managing board for the sake of our next generation and for the sake of the entire human race. If you guys keep making deals with evil, there will be greater disasters in the near future!”
And other Internet user said that by filtering the word “gongfei” and yet turn a blind eye to “meidi”--a phrase that commonly used by the Chinese army of trolls to criticize the US Government, it’s obvious that YouTube is pro-Chinese Communist Party when it comes to the censorship of the comments and they’re urging US Government to take precaution measures.
#Youtube #CCP #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech
Source: PTT, Twitter, NTDTV
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网友给我留言：在油管留言“共匪”，十五秒之后消失，我试了几次 https://t.co/pxRQMJ7JvY
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The political censorship has increased on Youtube amid the filtering of the Chinese word “Gong Fei” on the platform 3/3
As a matter of fact, YouTube is cracking down the videos related to COVID-19 since the outbreak commenced. A bunch of videos were labelled by YouTube platform “Not suitable for most advertisers” even if they were sharing the information of the pandemic and introducing the precautionary measures to prevent the virus from spreading.
It’s common sense that advertising revenue is one of the major source of income for YouTubers and if one video is labelled as “not suitable for most advertisers” with a yellow dollar sign, the video will not appear in the “recommended for you” tab and only a few adversaries (or none) will be able to insert their advertisements to the video. By doing so, YouTubers’ advertising revenue will be reduced significantly and there will be less people viewing their videos.
YouTube has caused great dissatisfaction among the YouTubers and it is criticized for cracking down on freedom of speech and performing censorship on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, and many internet users have doubted that there are some dark deals behind the misuse of yellow dollar signs.
A bunch of internet users have started a petition on the “We the people” site, requesting the platform to explain the relationship between the yellow dollar sign and the filtering “sensitive phrases”, and they are expecting the White House to investigate YouTube’s misconduct. The petition started on 21 Feb and more than 100,000 people signed the petition to show their support within a month.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible---Stainslaw Jerzy Lec, a polish writer
Source: PTT, NTDTV
#Youtube #Censorship #Coronavirus #WHO #CCP #FreedomOfSpeech #Petition #YellowDollarSign
The political censorship has increased on Youtube amid the filtering of the Chinese word “Gong Fei” on the platform 3/3
As a matter of fact, YouTube is cracking down the videos related to COVID-19 since the outbreak commenced. A bunch of videos were labelled by YouTube platform “Not suitable for most advertisers” even if they were sharing the information of the pandemic and introducing the precautionary measures to prevent the virus from spreading.
It’s common sense that advertising revenue is one of the major source of income for YouTubers and if one video is labelled as “not suitable for most advertisers” with a yellow dollar sign, the video will not appear in the “recommended for you” tab and only a few adversaries (or none) will be able to insert their advertisements to the video. By doing so, YouTubers’ advertising revenue will be reduced significantly and there will be less people viewing their videos.
YouTube has caused great dissatisfaction among the YouTubers and it is criticized for cracking down on freedom of speech and performing censorship on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, and many internet users have doubted that there are some dark deals behind the misuse of yellow dollar signs.
A bunch of internet users have started a petition on the “We the people” site, requesting the platform to explain the relationship between the yellow dollar sign and the filtering “sensitive phrases”, and they are expecting the White House to investigate YouTube’s misconduct. The petition started on 21 Feb and more than 100,000 people signed the petition to show their support within a month.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible---Stainslaw Jerzy Lec, a polish writer
Source: PTT, NTDTV
#Youtube #Censorship #Coronavirus #WHO #CCP #FreedomOfSpeech #Petition #YellowDollarSign
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[新聞] Youtube政治審查升級 留言「共匪」被自動
1.媒體來源:新唐人
2.記者署名:何雅婷
3.完整新聞標題:
Youtube政治審查升級 留言「共匪」被自動刪除
4.完整新聞內文:
2.記者署名:何雅婷
3.完整新聞標題:
Youtube政治審查升級 留言「共匪」被自動刪除
4.完整新聞內文:
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The grave doubts about Google and YouTube
The latest controversy comes from today that if a random code is typed in the Google search box, it will bring up the gas explosion charity dispute in Taiwan, which was used by Kuomintang to smear Chen Chu during the previous presidential election in Taiwan.
What do we see further ahead?
YouTube has been caught red-handed for automatically deleting messages containing the words "communist thief" or "fifty cent army (Wu Mao)" for a long time. According to The Verge's article, Youtube has been deleting the related comments since last October.
Related Article→
https://www.ithome.com.tw/news/137869
Last month, #GoogleTranslate has suddenly replaced Taiwan wordings with China's wordings with a "community certification" label next to them. Examples include the word “video” will be translated to “Shi Pin” (視頻; instead of “Ying Pian”, 影片) while the word “software” will be translated to “Ruan Jian” (軟件; instead of “Ruan Ti”, 軟體), to list just a few.
Related Article→
https://www.facebook.com/BerryVoice/posts/3014567928622541
Google put the blame to the Youtube incident on its algorithm, but they haven’t said a word about the translation incident. What will be the excuse of the “Chen Chu, charity fund” incident this time?
I would like to ask: How much longer do Google have to hide behind “the algorithm” explanation ? How much longer do they have to keep us quiet?
Source: Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/551090876/posts/10157093414550877/?d=n
Further reading:
Remove China Apps garners 1 million downloads in India, gets 4.8 stars on Google Play Store
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/22143
YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/21939
#SharpPower #Google #GoogleTranslate #ChinaInfluence #Youtube #Taiwan
The grave doubts about Google and YouTube
The latest controversy comes from today that if a random code is typed in the Google search box, it will bring up the gas explosion charity dispute in Taiwan, which was used by Kuomintang to smear Chen Chu during the previous presidential election in Taiwan.
What do we see further ahead?
YouTube has been caught red-handed for automatically deleting messages containing the words "communist thief" or "fifty cent army (Wu Mao)" for a long time. According to The Verge's article, Youtube has been deleting the related comments since last October.
Related Article→
https://www.ithome.com.tw/news/137869
Last month, #GoogleTranslate has suddenly replaced Taiwan wordings with China's wordings with a "community certification" label next to them. Examples include the word “video” will be translated to “Shi Pin” (視頻; instead of “Ying Pian”, 影片) while the word “software” will be translated to “Ruan Jian” (軟件; instead of “Ruan Ti”, 軟體), to list just a few.
Related Article→
https://www.facebook.com/BerryVoice/posts/3014567928622541
Google put the blame to the Youtube incident on its algorithm, but they haven’t said a word about the translation incident. What will be the excuse of the “Chen Chu, charity fund” incident this time?
I would like to ask: How much longer do Google have to hide behind “the algorithm” explanation ? How much longer do they have to keep us quiet?
Source: Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/551090876/posts/10157093414550877/?d=n
Further reading:
Remove China Apps garners 1 million downloads in India, gets 4.8 stars on Google Play Store
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/22143
YouTube is deleting comments with two phrases that insult China’s Communist Party
https://publielectoral.lat/guardiansofhongkong/21939
#SharpPower #Google #GoogleTranslate #ChinaInfluence #Youtube #Taiwan
iThome
Youtube會把包含「五毛」、「共匪」詞彙的留言自動刪除
Youtube解釋，可能是平臺執法系統發生錯誤，目前已展開調查
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More than once, we've warned that #CCP's ambition isn't just about expanding their power in #HK or #Taiwan, but the whole world.
Within the past couple of days, #hkpolice sent letters to @wix requesting them to take down https://www.2021hkcharter.com/;
Bing censored "tank man" & #youtube stopped the streaming of Humanitarian China. Both said they were having "technical difficulties".
https://t.co/MZVX6zFCDx
Within the past couple of days, #hkpolice sent letters to @wix requesting them to take down https://www.2021hkcharter.com/;
Bing censored "tank man" & #youtube stopped the streaming of Humanitarian China. Both said they were having "technical difficulties".
https://t.co/MZVX6zFCDx
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Tldr: more fake accounts to spam pro-CCP content
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I’m sure we have seen how these fake accounts “raid” comment sections with copy and pasted messages.
And if you’re on twitter, you may have seen copy and pasted tweets too.
That’s not all! CIR also found accounts that actually post content that are anti-“the west”.
Let’s hope these spam-ish accounts get removed. Social media platforms aren’t meant for robots.
#facebook #youtube #instagram #twitter #CCP #China #disinformation #AI
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I’m sure we have seen how these fake accounts “raid” comment sections with copy and pasted messages.
And if you’re on twitter, you may have seen copy and pasted tweets too.
That’s not all! CIR also found accounts that actually post content that are anti-“the west”.
Let’s hope these spam-ish accounts get removed. Social media platforms aren’t meant for robots.
#facebook #youtube #instagram #twitter #CCP #China #disinformation #AI
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#China has exploited #Google, #YouTube, and other western search engines on sensitive topics, including Xinjiang and COVID-19, to assert their narrative to American audiences.
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Chinese state-linked #Hackers made off with $20 million of pandemic relief funds, according to #SecretService.
#Youtube is accused of moderating content tied to anti-lockdown #Protests in China. A Youtuber shares his discovery.
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#Youtube appears to be moderating content related to the recent #AntiLockdownProtests in China. A YouTuber says he tested to see which words would get him demonetized.
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