-
Good to see that being antisemitic in public still has some consequences. wsj.com/articles/pewdiepie-show-canceled-by-googles-youtube-1487088868?mod=e2fbPermalink On twitter.com
♻️ 6 Retweets
❤️ 12 Favorites
Mood +3 🙂
-
This indicates it is just advertisers worries that drove this action & not any ethics on Google's part. Which is prob true & unsurprising.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 2 Favorites
Mood -1 🙁
-
"YouTube said it left the videos on its site because it determined they don’t violate a separate set of rules, their community guidelines,"Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 1 Favorite
Mood 0
-
In case you were wondering, yes, Google has no issue being a vector for hate speech as long as it maintains their 'relationship' w/creatorsPermalink On twitter.com
❤️ 1 Favorite
Mood -3 🙁
-
I guess as long as you put "Death to all Jews" between two jokes and call yourself edgy that is a-ok at the Googleplex.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 2 Favorites
Mood 0
-
It still shocks me that, for a company whose entire business is distribution, how little Google understands network effects of media.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 2 Favorites
Mood -2 🙁
-
With Google cutting off PewDiePie's revenue I predict two possible ways this goes forward:Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -1 🙁
-
One: Kjellberg goes through some very public hand-wringing, takes down the video of his own accord, and everything goes back to how it was.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
Two: he plays to his young, white teen male audience and goes on about how he is being discriminated against and ends up on Infowars.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -2 🙁
-
I'd bet anyone $50 that he goes route two and just doubles down on antisemitism. It's proving to be a very profitable industry as of late :/Permalink On twitter.com
Mood +2 🙂
-
'Cause he already took step one:Permalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
It's very telling that this is happening on a Google property. Remember the Holocaust search results? Facebook is really a side-note in thisPermalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
I doubt Google will ever face a reckoning for the immense role it had and continues to have in normalizing antisemitism.On twitter.com
Mood -1 🙁
-
This is the year it becomes clear that the culture war is between people who want a white world vs people who want a survivable one.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 2 Favorites
Mood +1 🙂
-
& Google, and most of the rest of tech, pretends it hasn't chosen a side, but that *is* choosing a side. Communication tools aren't neutral.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 1 Favorite
Mood -1 🙁
-
Without moderation, communication tools support the status quo and the status quo now is a situation in which anyone "other" gets hurt.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
Here's a crazy idea. Don't index Daily St*rmer. Shit isn't hard. W/out Google thousands of young men would likely never have come to Nazism.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 2 Favorites
Mood -5 🙁
-
And at the end of the day Google's supposed neutrality doesn't excuse that away. It is *on them* but they will never face consequences.Permalink On twitter.com
❤️ 1 Favorite
Mood +1 🙂
-
Point is the focus from profit motive is itself a tool making the world a more dangerous place for anyone who isn't white, male & Christian.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
Google's inability to take down a video that is arguably dangerous in that regard isn't an abnormality, it is one mark in a long pattern.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -4 🙁
-
You know why SV engineers are so concerned about a Terminator scenario? Because they're the only ones not already in danger via own tech.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -4 🙁
-
The rest of us don't have to worry about rogue AI because the internet as-is is already in the process of organizing people to kill us.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -6 🙁
-
I'm a pretty pessimistic guy, but damn...Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -3 🙁
-
Even I am surprised that it is 2017 and we're having to argue about how Nazi propaganda isn't acceptable public discourse.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -3 🙁
-
This. Should. Be. A. Given.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood 0
-
I really hate that we're in a time where predicting someone will be a racist antisemitic scumbag is an easy guess WIRED/832237289795354624Permalink On twitter.com
Mood -9 🙁