BBC:
In a blog post on Thursday, YouTube said it had „removed tens of thousands of QAnon videos and terminated hundreds of channels“ under its existing content rules.
But citing challenges in managing „shifting and evolving“ content, YouTube said it was necessary to take „another step in our efforts to curb hate and harassment“.
„Today we’re further expanding both our hate and harassment policies to prohibit content that targets an individual or group with conspiracy theories that have been used to justify real-world violence,“ it said.
One example, YouTube said, „would be content that threatens or harasses someone by suggesting they are complicit in one of these harmful conspiracies“.
Syme, Winston’s friend:
‚Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,‘ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. ‚Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?‘