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JohnDClay ,

You heard of elsagate?

Steve ,

Again, or still?

blargbluuk ,
@blargbluuk@sh.itjust.works avatar

Meanwhile I can’t even upload commercials for archival purposes without getting copyright strikes on my account. How is YouTube so bad at this.

RecallMadness ,

Because that’s the way the legal system works.

“Oops, had some harmful/illegal content on there? Nobody was /really/ hurt, or at least, we weren’t directly causing harm. I’ll take it down and eat a small fine.

Vs

“Oh I’m sorry, I’ll take down the 30s clip of your 90s movie. it has caused you 3million in damages? I’m so sorry, here’s some tools that will automate detection and removal of your property. I’m so sorry”

huginn ,

Copyright protection is easy. Detection of novel forms of obscenity is hard.

I’d argue it’s extremely hard, even.

Dvixen ,
@Dvixen@lemmy.world avatar

Again?

Deceptichum ,
@Deceptichum@quokk.au avatar

So Elsagate never stopped?

This has to be a state actor thing, nobody else has the resources to deploy such a long lasting and changing content farm. Some psyops to fuck future generations of adults up?

9point6 ,

YT Ultra

blargerer ,

Never doubt the impact bad incentives can have on a large group of individual actors.

JackGreenEarth ,

According to the article, the videos feature nudity and possibly sexual harassment. Sexual harassment is unfortunately a fact of life, and it’s probably better that children recognise it, and see it condemned in the media they watch, than not know what it is at all. And you would have to be a puritan to think that children seeing naked people is somehow so terrible.

RageAgainstTheRich ,

But their channels for children… not just random channels. There is a difference.

conciselyverbose ,

If you bothered reading the very short article, it would be very clear that people are deliberately getting children subscribers than replacing the flow of new content with attempts to brainwash them or expose them to obscenity.

4am ,

It’s not even that, it’s to shock them so they keep engaging with the channel, telling their friends, etc. which increases ad impressions until they are caught.

Then they create a new channel and start again.

This is Elsagate 2 but with more nefarious tactics.

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