YouTube’s Appeal Decision Is In: My Inactive Manager Channel Stays Banned—And It’s Complete Bullshit

It's been less than five hours since I woke up to discover my YouTube channels had been terminated overnight, and I've already received YouTube's appeal decision. Spoiler alert: it's not good news. In fact, it's exactly the kind of generic, nonsensical response that proves YouTube's moderation system is running on autopilot with zero human oversight. Let me walk you through what happened today, because the timeline alone shows how broken this entire process is. The Timeline of This […]

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“Have we been radicalized? At any stage of your life, have you started to go down the rabbit hole?

Yes, to a certain extent, that's something that did happen to me. And I pulled back from it, and my mum were talking about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks and Wanted the World to Go on Fire. I've become quite hawkish now about those things.

At the time, I was really into that. I very nearly did go down that rabbit hole, but I saw it and came back from it.”

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Radicalisation (Throwback Episode)

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#CallForPapers: Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in #SpeculativeFiction

Critical essays are requested for Wars We Never Fought: Armed Conflict in Speculative Fiction.

As the project seeks to be a wide survey of war in science / speculative fiction and fantasy narratives, papers that address any of the forms below will be considered: Short- and long-form narrative #fiction; #Drama; #Film; #Animation; #Television; #VideoGames; #TabletopGaming / #RolePlayingGames; and #NewMedia / #InternetMedia.

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The complete Call for Papers is here: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/02/23/edited-collection-wars-we-never-fought-armed-conflict-in-speculative-fiction

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