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SHOCKER! Youtube Reverses Election Misinformation Policies · Radio Baloney - The Richie Baloney Show!

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  So I find this to be a most curious development. I'll just read the
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  headline. YouTube reverses misinformation policy to allow US election denialism. So tens of
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  thousands of videos removed later God knows how many creators YouTube channels nuked livelihoods destroyed
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  by YouTube after the twenty twenty election because people expressed their opinions about the election
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  and their distrust of the process. And now YouTube is reversing their policy.
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  You used to not be able to say that there was anything funny about the
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  election at all, just that one just to twenty twenty one, twenty sixteen
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  was fine, you go to town. Yet for some reason, it was
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  for some reason, it wasn't a problem until twenty twenty. And I've got
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  an idea. I've got a very good idea of why this is happening.
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  I'll tell you in just a little bit, but first let's get into this.
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  In a reversal of its election integrity policy, YouTube will leave up content
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  that says fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the twenty twenty presidential election
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  and other US elections, the company confirmed to Axios on Friday. Well,
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  it was fine to say it about every other election. By the way,
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  until twenty twenty, right, but I think it's important here where they say,
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  and other US elections, like perhaps elections in the future. Yeah,
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  we're gonna get to my opinion on this in just a second. Let's go
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  a little further. Let's see. The company said in a statement that leaving
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  the policy in place may have the effect of quote curtailing political speech without meaningfully
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  reducing the risk of violence or other real world harm, as if that was
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  ever their actual concern. Yeah, and you'll just have to forgive me if
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  I'm a little bit cynical about their motives, says two years, tens of
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  thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, we recognized it was
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  time to reevaluate the effects of this policy in today's changed landscape. YouTube said
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  in a statement, what is the changed landscape? The changed landscape is that
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  there's another election coming up, and they want to see who wins. How
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  much do you want to bet that, whoever the Democrats end up running in
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  twenty twenty four, that if they win, this policy will be slammed back
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  into place quicker than Joe Biden can fall up a flight of stairs. If
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  not, if the unthinkable happens for them. I got a feeling it's a
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  lot like twenty sixteen again, isn't it, Because then they'll definitely be concerned
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  about curtailing political speech, and they certainly won't be concerned about violence or other
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  real world harm because they weren't concerned about it after Trump won again it was
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  anything goes we all remember. With that in mind, and with twenty twenty
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  four campaigns well under way, we will stop removing content that advances false claims
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  that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the twenty twenty or other
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  past US presidential elections. And again, to my knowledge, this only applied
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  in the United States, at least to the twenty twenty election. Let's the
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  YouTube said it had carefully deliberated this change, but didn't provide further examples of
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  what factors or instances is it considered when weighing its decision. Again, we
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  all know what it is. They're gonna wait and see what happens in twenty
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  twenty four. This just seems obvious to me. Let's See the Platform said
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  it will provide more details about its approach to the twenty twenty four election in
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  the months to come. Yet they're going to see how things go. And
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  by the way, I got a strike actually just for quoting Trump on the
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  twenty twenty election, just for quoting him. That's it. They said that
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  I didn't provide countervailing evidence, which feels a lot like being coerced into saying
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  things that you don't actually believe. Again, I'm not buying their whole being
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  worried about curtailing political speech thing. Now, apparently this policy goes into effect
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  immediately, but I have to issue a word of caution here YouTube X totally
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  arbitrarily. I've been on this platform for a few years and I can attest
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  that it's totally arbitrary. It's just the whims of the AI or if there
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  is a person on the other end of it, you better hope that they're
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  having a good day. Anyway. Let's look at precisely what they say here
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  on their Elections Misinformation Policies page, and here are the things that you're not
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  allowed to post under election integrity. It says content advancing false claims that widespread
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  fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in certain past elections to determine the heads
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  of government, or content that claims that the certified results of those elections were
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  false. This policy currently applies to the twenty twenty one German federal election,
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  the twenty fourteen, twenty eighteen, and twenty twenty two Brazilian presidential elections.
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  Keep in mind this isn't a complete list. Oh well thanks, then,
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  so you've given us two examples here, and then there's just a bunch more,
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  and nobody knows what they are because they don't tell you in this This
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  is completely typical of big tech. Their rules are so open ended that they're
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  almost meaningless. Here it says that we may allow content that violates the election
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  integrity policy noted on this page if the content includes additional context in the video,
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  audio title, or description. This is not a pass to promote misinformation.
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  Additional context may include countervailing views, or if the purpose of the content
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  is to condemn, dispute, or satirize misinformation that violates our policies. What
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  does that mean? It sounds to me like you're still not allowed to disagree
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  with them, and they're still holding themselves up as the arbiter of all truth
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  and justice. I want to come back to this before we end it.
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  The platform said it will provide more details about its approach to the twenty twenty
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  four election in the months to come. Sounds like it's an evolving process to
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  me, and I think that their approach is going to change depending on what
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  happens in the twenty twenty four election, or what looks like it's going to
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  happen in the election, because if the wrong guy gets in, then the
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  old policy isn't politically expedient for them anymore, is it. So they might
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  need a change up to the twenty sixteen model. And this way they can
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  say, well, we change the policy way back in summer of twenty twenty
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  three, and if the guy they want to get in, because YouTube is
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  political and they do have a favorite, if that guy gets in, well
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  they just revert back to twenty twenty again. And I think it's obvious and
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  I think I will be proven right on this anyway. Please subscribe, link
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  I will see you next time.