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D66 MEP Marietje Schaake has asked questions to the European Commission on Wednesday about the rejection of an advertising campaign for the Dutch film Redbad on YouTube. According to a mail that producer Klaas de Jong received from Google, owner of YouTube, it is rated as "shocking content, and we do not seek to offend users with ads that are inappropriate for our advertising network," the mail says. A Google spokesperson confirms the authenticity of the mail, but does not want to provide any substantive explanation of the reason for rejection. The trailer may remain on the producer's YouTube channel, but it is not brought to the attention of other users as an advertisement. De Jong can appeal against this decision by Google, but lets it know not to want to do so. Cultural expression "I want the European Commission to take a position on cultural expression online," says Schaake. "It is not desirable for companies or algorithms to determine the boundaries for free expression, but the law determines what the limits are, not the profit model of a large concern such as Google." Chess got stuck in the subject after a year and a half ago a video of a debate in the European Parliament that she posted on YouTube was suddenly removed. In his own words, the D66 politician ended up in a "kafkaesque situation: nobody could or wanted to answer me why the video had been removed." Christianity Producer Klaas de Jong states that Redbad's campaign has been refused because the film is about the struggle of a Frisian monarch (Gijs Naber) against the harsh introduction of the Christian faith in the Middle Ages. "From our Dutch perspective, resistance to Christianity is not a big issue," says De Jong. "But in the rest of the world that is apparently still a huge thing, it is bizarre that Americans now want to determine what should be offensive to the Dutch." The Google spokesperson does not want to confirm that the rejection of the Redbad campaign is related to this. Previously, Facebook told the makers of the film not to be served with films that are "insulting to large populations", and asked them to remove the trailer.
Google is announcing new efforts today to support the media industry by fighting misinformation and bolstering journalism, which will live under a newly announced umbrella called the Google News Initiative. Google already offers something similar in Europe through the Digital News Initiative, but the Google News Initiative is intended to be a wider worldwide expansion of those kinds of efforts.
There are three specific goals of the Google News Initiative: highlight accurate journalism while fighting misinformation, particularly during breaking news events; help news sites continue to grow from a business perspective; and create new tools to help journalists do their jobs. Google is serious about supporting these goals, too, pledging to invest $300 million over the next three years.
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originally posted by: toysforadults
California sure as hell is well on it's way to authoritarianism
sure as hell is a good example or why a direct democracy won't/ can't work
originally posted by: TonyS
originally posted by: toysforadults
California sure as hell is well on it's way to authoritarianism
sure as hell is a good example or why a direct democracy won't/ can't work
Precisely what you get with a One Party state.
Sadly, probably coming to a state near you, (or me, or everyone for that matter).
originally posted by: Majic
As Google becomes more about shaping and controlling content, it becomes less appealing as a search engine and Internet portal.
Maybe that's inevitable and a good move for them, but it's costing them in ways that may end badly.
Google is a phenomenal success, but is not without competition, and if it establishes a reputation for being untrustworthy or manipulative (a process already well underway), then sooner or later, there will be a reckoning.
originally posted by: seeker1963
You are forgetting google was seeded by money from the NSA and the CIA? We need to think of google as what they are. A deep state cesspool of tyranny! Then they have branched to their "Alphabet"? See the word play right in our face?
I'm sure there's plenty of love money flowing in that relationship, but the only reason for that is Google's success as a business. If it loses its ubiquity, it will lose its value to the intelligence agencies it's in bed with, and their favor will go to others more worthy of it.
originally posted by: burntheships
Breaking:
A Federal Judge on an American Island has ordered Google to
leave the Nazism comparison up on the internet.
"Nazism" may have been a reference to Patrick Little, a Holocaust denier who praises Adolf Hitler and aims to "remove the Jews from power" who is running as a Republican for a U.S. Senate seat in California. Little got more support than any other Republican candidate in an April 27 SurveyUSA poll. Little polled at 18%, compared with incumbent Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein's 39%. The next highest-performing GOP candidate came in at 8%.
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: underwerks
Well "technically" the russian trolls werent wrong that Huillary was horrible, and yet we wtill got the special counsel looking in to that.
So I assume we will see the same treatment here, with google that clearly is colluding to help democrats win.
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: underwerks
Well "technically" the russian trolls werent wrong that Huillary was horrible, and yet we wtill got the special counsel looking in to that.
So I assume we will see the same treatment here, with google that clearly is colluding to help democrats win.
I’m just going by the information.
A Nazi is running on the Republican ticket in California. If that isn’t something you’re comfortable with, maybe you should bring it up in your next outraged conservatives meeting.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Grambler
I would have bet that not one person would defend this.
I guess I would have lost that bet.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Grambler
I would have bet that not one person would defend this.
I guess I would have lost that bet.
originally posted by: Grambler
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: Grambler
a reply to: underwerks
Well "technically" the russian trolls werent wrong that Huillary was horrible, and yet we wtill got the special counsel looking in to that.
So I assume we will see the same treatment here, with google that clearly is colluding to help democrats win.
I’m just going by the information.
A Nazi is running on the Republican ticket in California. If that isn’t something you’re comfortable with, maybe you should bring it up in your next outraged conservatives meeting.
QWe live in a free society.
anyone can run under any party they wish.
This nazi will no doubt lose horribly, as he should.
Meanwhile, the democrats that pal around wand defend anti semite racists are in roles of party leadership (like farakhan pal Keith ellison)
Funny, I dont see the elft ever condmening that, just screaming about some loser that ran unopposed and claims to be a nazi that said they were repub lican.
originally posted by: underwerks
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Grambler
I would have bet that not one person would defend this.
I guess I would have lost that bet.
As I said in the post above. I’m just going by the information.
If a Nazi isn’t running on the Republican ticket in California, please show me. Everything I’ve read shows he still is.
So technically, they weren’t wrong. I’m just going by the same standards you guys do.