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Youtube Takes Down CHESS PODCAST for Being HARMFUL or DANGEROUS

agadmator's Chess Channel · 609.5K views · 2020-06-28 · 9:01

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Chess YouTuber agadmator reports that YouTube took down his podcast with Hikaru Nakamura as harmful or dangerous content. It was later restored.

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Cited as an example of automated content moderation misfiring, notably the incident where chess talk was flagged as hate speech.

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tehnub · 2021-07 · Reference

Agadmator, the person who made the video in question, also made a video soon after explaining the situation, and gave some hypotheses on why the video got taken down. In addition to the reason being hate speech, he suggested it may have been because they discussed Covid-19, lockdowns, etc, and YouTube was attempting to stop the spread of misinformation. The video I’m talking about is here: [VIDEO]

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jimmytucson · 2021-02 · Reference

I didn’t know Agadmator was censored so I looked for information and found a video of him talking about it here: [VIDEO] He doesn’t know why his podcast was flagged. He mentions a few possibilities-one of which is the black and white thing, which would be a mistake. It’s notable how guarded his speech is, as though he might say something else verboten. I’ve watched hundreds of chess videos on YouTube and never heard of one getting flagged until now.

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dandanua · 2020-08 · Reference

Relevant: Youtube algorithm blocked a video on a popular chess channel with 1800 videos, supposedly for a "racism" [VIDEO]

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