”YouTube just backtracked its inexplicable decision to delete three popular Pokémon Go channels — Trainer Tips, Mystic7, and Marksman — for violating the platform’s rules against sexualizing minors.”
”It appears the channels were shutdown over the acronym CP, which stands for a pokémon’s combat power. YouTube, however, took it to mean ‘child pornography’ — although nothing about the videos pointed towards that.”
”Article 13, which was recently cemented in the final version of the proposed legislation, has been one of most contested part of the reform. It’ll effectively make platforms accountable for any copyright infringement by its users.
‘Upload filters’ aren’t specifically mentioned in the reform, but opponents of Article 13 argue that they’d be inevitable under the new law because commercial sites and apps which allow users to post content would be obligated to make their “best efforts” to preemptively buy licenses that users may upload.
So to completely prevent being liable for a user’s copyright infringement, platforms would pretty much have to secure rights for all copyrighted content in the world — a clearly impossible task. That’s why opponents claim platforms would need to establish de facto upload filters — to review, flag, and remove possibly copyrighted content.
But that seems like an even more impossible task, since one of the world’s most advanced tech companies can’t correctly separate videos on Pokémon Go from child abuse material.”
