Google is not even in China so why would they even do this? I don’t think that YouTube is either.
I wonder if this is just some lower level software engineer or product manager taking a unilateral decision, for whatever reason, or if this came from up above...
"Communist bandit" is highly inflammatory rhetoric because it references the traditional Chinese term for a regime that has lost legitimacy and must soon fall: "bad men and bandits". It is roughly at the same level as "Fuck the King". Harmless words for people living in modern democratic states, but plainly out of line for people under authoritarian control.
on a related note, i am getting a massive amount of propaganda via youtube's ads. i have personalization turned off on youtube and google, so these are i guess from youtube's default ad pool or whatever. the ads i see are all sorts of propaganda either for or against places like israel, china, and all other sorts of issues. it is insane. i've never been under assault of more propaganda, even when traveling in china, and i've greatly reduced my use of youtube because there's been no way to stop these ads. all i watch on youtube are random interest clips (e.g., guitar) that have nothing to do with politics, news, etc.
one of these is from the organization "epoch times" or something like that which are bluntly anti-chinese propaganda. i have no idea what's going on, but it's clear youtube and google are sellouts to the highest bidder.
I wonder if there is a list of English and German phrases to automatically delete. The amount of phrases you should utter in public in these languages is considerable. (IDK about other European languages.)
I really don't understand the thing with the "Wuhan virus" name. We already have diseased named after places: Ebola, Marburg, Hanta, Junín, Lyme, Crimea-Congo, etc. Why the outrage now for calling it Wuhan Virus? Why it _has to be racist_ instead a historical thing?
From the "WHO best practices for naming of new human infectious diseases" (2015):
Terms that should be avoided in disease names include geographic locations (e.g. Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, Spanish Flu, Rift Valley fever), people’s names (e.g. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, Chagas disease), species of animal or food (e.g. swine flu, bird flu, monkey pox), cultural, population, industry or occupational references (e.g. legionnaires), and terms that incite undue fear (e.g. unknown, fatal, epidemic).
How is it racist to criticize the Chinese Communist Party? And that includes rightly blaming them for botching everything involving the pandemic. The Chinese people deserve better leadership.
I wonder if this is just some lower level software engineer or product manager taking a unilateral decision, for whatever reason, or if this came from up above...