Apr 16, 2021 06:00:00

One day, suddenly you may not be able to post to YouTube for no reason

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BRICK 101

SNS such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have policies, and those who violate the policy will not be able to post content or their accounts will be deleted. However, since an automated system is used to determine this policy violation, people who are mistakenly determined to be in violation of the policy may be locked out without a justifiable reason. Some security researchers, the Internet bulletin board Reddit You have revealed a state of 'forbidden to post on without good reason YouTube, moreover prospect not even stand of recovery because it is not possible to contact the YouTube'.

Cannot post to YouTube for a week (got a strike) because I included link to legitimate PhD research on KRACK WPA2 vulnerability: privacy
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/mq00n9/cannot_post_to_youtube_for_a_week_got_a_strike/

Privacy & Security researcher Sun Knudsen posted on YouTube and PeerTube on a daily basis. In December 2020, Mr. Knudsen received a policy violation warning email from YouTube. The following movie that explained 'How to encrypt mail using encryption software GnuPG ' was judged to be a policy violation.

How to encrypt, sign and decrypt messages using GnuPG on macOS --YouTube


This is the email actually sent from YouTube.

Knudsen felt 'censored for no good reason' because the use of GnuPG is neither dangerous nor harmful, but due to YouTube policy, there are no particular restrictions on a single warning, so Knudsen continues to post. Was there. Of course, as of December 10, 2020, Mr. Knudsen challenged YouTube that he was 'warned even though it was not a content violation', but it seems that there will be no reply even in April 2021. ..

And on April 14, Knudsen reported receiving a new warning. As a result, it seems that you can not post movies on YouTube for a week.

The cause of the warning was a link to the page 'https://www.krackattacks.com/' about research on ' key reinstallation attacks where an attacker breaks WPA2'. This page was published by a postdoctoral security researcher, and Knudsen put a link in the YouTube movie summary section, 'Why can't I trust my home or other wireless networks?'

It shouldn't violate YouTube's policy because it only links to legitimate pages with non-harmful content, but it seems that the warning was mistakenly made, as in December. Moreover, since there is no response from the YouTube for appeal, Knudsen's YouTube account does not have the prospect of post recovery is standing.

'I strongly believe that humanity must return to human operation. It's perfectly fine to flag content using algorithms. The problem is that AI determines the right or wrong when people can't interact with people. That's it, 'commented Knudsen.

The occurrence of the above situation was predicted as of March 2020. In March 2020, many Google employees became remote due to the influence of the new coronavirus infection (COVID-19), and the judgment of policy violations shifted from 'people and AI' to 'AI-centric'. It's because of it.

Due to the influence of the new coronavirus, there is a possibility that the number of videos that are mistakenly judged as 'policy violation' on YouTube will increase --GIGAZINE

Facebook has also reported that users in small businesses were mistakenly determined by the automated system to violate the policy, their accounts were suspended, and their revenue sources were suspended.

Record that Facebook paid 4.6 billion yen and the account was suspended --GIGAZINE