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During the Venezuelan presidential crisis of 2019, YouTube has been heavily censored regularly by Venezuela's state-owned internet service provider, CANTV. The blocking of YouTube and social media websites by the Venezuelan government were intended to suppress information relating to Juan Guaidó and the pro-opposition National Assembly.
Algospeak is the use of coded expressions to evade automated moderation algorithms on social media platforms such as TikTok and YouTube.It is used to discuss topics deemed sensitive to moderation algorithms while avoiding penalties such as shadow banning.
YouTube stated they do not take action on any video with these comments but those that they have flagged that are likely to draw child predator activity. [125] In June 2019, The New York Times cited researchers who found that users who watched erotic videos could be recommended seemingly innocuous videos of children. [126]
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.
Philip DeFranco argued that not being able to earn money from a video was "censorship by a different name", while Vlogbrothers similarly pointed out that YouTube had flagged both "Zaatari: thoughts from a refugee camp" and "Vegetables that look like penises" (although the flagging on the former was eventually overturned). [149]
YouTube videos often have profanity bleeped or muted out as YouTube policy specifies that videos including profanities may be "demonetized" or stripped of ads. [10] Beginning in 2019, the bleep censor began to be more often used for censoring out words related to sensitive and contentious topics to evade algorithmic censorship online ...
Pornography, for example, is often censored under this rationale, especially child pornography, which is illegal and censored in most jurisdictions in the world. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Military censorship is the process of keeping military intelligence and tactics confidential and away from the enemy.
In November 2024, Canadian rapper Drake filed a lawsuit against Universal Music Group over the popular Kendrick Lamar song "Not Like Us" which is a diss track against Drake. The lawsuit has been described by music industry insiders as having a Streisand effect since in the wake of the lawsuit, the song's sales have increased by 440% and has ...