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YouTube shares insights on its latest enforcement report

by WarriorForum.com Administrator
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YouTube has just released its Community Guidelines Enforcement report. The report outlines all actions that the platform took for rule violations, and this one for between April and June.

Like any tech company, YouTube was affected by the pandemic, and has to heavily rely on automated systems to detect potential violations:

"Earlier this year, we shared some of the steps we have taken to protect our employees and extended workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic. One major step was to rely more on technology to quickly identify and remove content that violates our Community Guidelines so that our teams that review content could safely remain at home. The second quarter of 2020 was the first full quarter we operated under this modified enforcement structure. Because of choices we made to prioritize the safety of the community, we removed the most videos we've ever removed in a single quarter from YouTube."
Because there are less people actually reviewing the violations, there was content which may have been removed in error which they acknowledged. However they chose to "over-police" instead of letting simply letting more reviewable content through:'

"For certain sensitive policy areas, such as violent extremism and child safety, we accepted a lower level of accuracy to make sure that we were removing as many pieces of violative content as possible. This also means that, in these areas specifically, a higher amount of content that does not violate our policies was also removed."


For the crunching numbers, YouTube removed 11,401,696 videos for rule violations, most of them automatically flagged by the system. Majority of the videos removed were child safety concerns, as on the chart:



Meanwhile, US and India saw the most videos removed by region:



These show that YouTube is working harder to remove offensive and non-complying content. Chime in.
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  • Profile picture of the author Jamell
    I could understand what they are trying to do .Child safety is of the utmost importance. Extremly Violent content has to be monitored too. The over policing will cause problems because videos that aren't supposed to get flagged will get flagged.
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  • Profile picture of the author Matthew Stanley
    In addition to obvious / necessary categories such as the above, it anecdotally, and based on reports from a few different creators I've seen, it seems YT is really endeavoring to prioritize "least objectionable possible" content. A lot of stuff with any sort of political bent either way getting shut down. Over the short term, this probably further entrenches family / kids creators (Cocomelon, anyone?) but we'll see...
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  • Profile picture of the author Jetten
    Over-policing by YT and GOogle.. sounds familiar
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