YouTube Automatically Deletes Some Terms Critical of Chinese Regime

Google announced that it had disabled 210 YouTube channels that were uploading videos "in a coordinated manner" about the ongoing protests in Hong Kong, on Aug. 22, 2019. Dado Ruvic/Illustration/Reuters

YouTube automatically deletes comments that mention some Chinese phrases commonly used to criticize the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), Chinese netizens have discovered.

Comments that contain such phrases are deleted within seconds, which suggests that it’s the work of an algorithm.