<story><title>Terminated</title><url>https://susiebright.substack.com/p/terminated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Looks like the account got restored. Seemingly, nothing got erased, the account was just temporarily unavailable.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Needless to say, the OOB lecturers were fully clothed and rather obsessed with our historical narrative. Anyone not interested in feminist politics would have probably fallen asleep.&lt;p&gt;The lecturers perhaps, but the streamed lecture contains full-screen examples from pornographic magazines that obviously should be flagged for verification by any porn detecting algorithm.&lt;p&gt;Youtube does state that explicit materials are allowed for educational content, but if their copyright machines can&amp;#x27;t even distinguish white noise from copyrighted music then I have very little hope that context like &amp;quot;educational discussion&amp;quot; will ever be recognised automatically.&lt;p&gt;As a society, we may need a platform where educational&amp;#x2F;government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this. Youtube&amp;#x27;s scope is too large to be managed by humans who can understand context and their advertiser seeking behaviour provides an incentive to &amp;quot;punish&amp;quot; videos containing even allowed nudity in their self-learning algorithms. Requiring every institution to set up their own video hosting infrastructure is unnecessary and even wasteful of public funds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Closi</author><text>&amp;gt; As a society, we may need a platform where educational&amp;#x2F;government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this.&lt;p&gt;These institutions are big enough to host their own videos - we don&amp;#x27;t need a new platform, they just need to spin up a server and to pay for their own bandwidth.&lt;p&gt;If you trust Google to provide your video hosting at a pricetag of £0 this is what you get... You are on their platform, with their rules, where their algorithm is judge, jury and executioner.</text></comment>
<story><title>Terminated</title><url>https://susiebright.substack.com/p/terminated</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jeroenhd</author><text>Looks like the account got restored. Seemingly, nothing got erased, the account was just temporarily unavailable.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Needless to say, the OOB lecturers were fully clothed and rather obsessed with our historical narrative. Anyone not interested in feminist politics would have probably fallen asleep.&lt;p&gt;The lecturers perhaps, but the streamed lecture contains full-screen examples from pornographic magazines that obviously should be flagged for verification by any porn detecting algorithm.&lt;p&gt;Youtube does state that explicit materials are allowed for educational content, but if their copyright machines can&amp;#x27;t even distinguish white noise from copyrighted music then I have very little hope that context like &amp;quot;educational discussion&amp;quot; will ever be recognised automatically.&lt;p&gt;As a society, we may need a platform where educational&amp;#x2F;government institutions can upload content (with content warnings, if necessary) because Youtube is a terrible fit for content like this. Youtube&amp;#x27;s scope is too large to be managed by humans who can understand context and their advertiser seeking behaviour provides an incentive to &amp;quot;punish&amp;quot; videos containing even allowed nudity in their self-learning algorithms. Requiring every institution to set up their own video hosting infrastructure is unnecessary and even wasteful of public funds.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tedivm</author><text>They could just flag the accounts of educational institutions as educational. I sincerely doubt the Cornell University Library is going to pivot to pornography.</text></comment>