中英对照：中共或亲共的人是否已经渗透到“油管”内部？

 
我将永远不会使用这两个软件：ZOOM和微信。ZOOM是视频会议软件，其中充斥着许多安全问题。我曾专门介绍过这个软件存在的问题。文章请见http://chinesenewsgroup.com/news/668776。

There are two pieces of software that I will never use – ZOOM and WeChat . In the case of ZOOM, it is a piece of video conferencing software inundated with security issues. Details discussed in my earlier article can be found here: http://chinesenewsgroup.com/news/668776 .

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（大中报/096.ca特稿）：至于微信，即使你的账号不在中国注册，你在微信里所做的事都会被中共监控。过去，我们以为只有在中国注册的账号才会被监控。我会在以后的文章中专门谈这个问题。

As for WeChat, we all know about communications conducted entirely among non-China-registered accounts are subject to pervasive content surveillance that was previously thought to be exclusively reserved for China-registered accounts. I will write on this at a later date.

我非常讨厌内容审查和对我个人隐私的侵犯。现在，有报道说脸书也在搞内容审查。对此，我可能不得不做出反应。当我在考虑脸书问题的时候，有人告诉我，“油管”也在帮中共进行内容审查。这是我没有想到的！“油管”背后的动机是什么？

It is obvious that I hate and despise censorship and invasion of privacy of any kind. Right now, I am seeing scattered reports of censorship within Facebook and so I may have to make some difficult choices soon. Just when I think this is looked after, I now receive information on yet another piece of software accused on censorship on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The surprise candidate here is “YouTube” but what are its motivations?



事实是，“油管”早在2019年10月就已自动删除那些含有批评中共的评论。当人们问这是咋回事时，“油管”称这是他们的偶然失误，并且正在努力解决该问题。“油管”把错误的原因归咎于自己的执行系统，但是没有解释为什么会发生这种错误。“油管”同时声称问题不是出自对用户发表评论的政策的改变。

As it turns out, YouTube has been automatically deleting comments that contain certain Chinese-language phrases related to criticism of the CCP as early as October 2019. When questioned, the company claimed that this was happening in error and that it is working to fix the problem. It blamed the cause of the error on its own enforcement system but did not provide an explanation as to why this came about and that it was not the result of any change in its moderation policy on users' comments.

“油管”会在大约15秒内自动删除包含“共匪”或“五毛”字样的评论。 “共匪”一词是当年国民党侮辱中共的称号，而“五毛”是贬义性的术语，泛指那些每在互联网上发给中共涂脂抹粉的帖子时会拿到5毛钱的人民币的人。此功能仅适用于汉字，不适用于其英文翻译或拼音。有传言称因为通货膨胀，五毛们现在每发一贴可拿八毛人民币。

Comments that contain the words “共匪” (“communist bandit”) or “五毛” (“50-cent party”) are automatically deleted by YouTube in around 15 seconds. The term “共匪” is an insult that dates back to China’s Nationalist government, while “五毛,” (or “Wu Mao”) is a derogatory slang term for internet users paid 50 Chinese cents per post to direct online discussion away from criticism of the CCP. This removal is only applicable to Chinese characters and not their English Translation or Pinyin equivalents. Of course, it is rumoured the “Wu Mao” gang recently got a raise due to inflation and they are now “ba mao” (eighty cents).



对这些敏感词过滤的功能似乎是无意加进“油管”的评论过滤器中。该过滤器会自动删除垃圾贴和令人反感的文字。 “油管”表示，由于COVID-19疫情带来的人员变动，近几个月来它越来越依赖电脑自动过滤器。

These removed phrases seem to have been accidentally added to YouTube’s comment filters, which automatically remove spam and offensive text. YouTube says it’s been relying more on its automated filters in recent months due to changes to its workforce brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

当我们想知道为啥“油管”会帮中共忙时，我们必须看看“油管”本身的背景。 “油管”是美国视频共享平台，总部位于加利福尼亚州圣布鲁诺。 谷歌于2006年11月以16.5亿美元的价格收购了该网站。 “油管”现在是谷歌的子公司之一。过去，谷歌一直被批通过审查内容取悦中共。

When we want to look at motivations to assist the CCP, we must examine the background of YouTube itself. YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. In the past, Google has been criticized for accommodating the wishes of the CCP by censoring content.



谷歌渴望进入中国市场，并于2018年创建了一个搜索引擎样板：蜻蜓。该搜索引擎迎合中共的审查标准。蜻蜓项目被曝光后，谷歌因出卖灵魂而遭到政界人士及其雇员的批评。在2019年6月的美国参议院司法委员会的听证会上，谷歌表示已“终止”该项目，并且“没有计划在中国启动搜索引擎''。蜻蜓从未投入使用。

Longing to enter the Chinese market, Google created a prototype search engine known as Project Dragonfly in 2018 that complied with Chinese state censorship. After the existence of Dragonfly was exposed, Google was criticized by politicians and its own employees for selling out its principles. During a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in June 2019, the company said it had “terminated” the project and that it had “no plans to launch Search in China.” Dragonfly was never deployed.

考虑到“油管”目前在中国被禁，它无意中对内容审查更为令人困惑。它的母公司恰恰是谷歌，这让“油管”没有理由删除批评中共的贴，或按照中国的审查制度来审查评论内容。

The accidental censorship by YouTube is even more puzzling considering that YouTube is currently blocked in China, giving its parent company, Google, even less reason to censor comments critical of the CCP or apply moderation systems in accordance with Chinese censorship laws.

在研究了许多香港主要政治评论员们对“油管”的检查制度和“油管”对他们的反共视频插手干预的评论后，你我得出的印象是中共或亲共的人已经渗透到“油管”公司内部。他们只要将那些敏感词“无意中”加进过滤器就可以帮中共的忙。

After studying many of the Hong Kong Key Opinion Leader (KOL) commentaries on censorship and interference by YouTube on their anti-communist video clips, one gets the impression that YouTube Asian staff group may be infiltrated with Communist operatives or sympathizers. A simple “accidental” inclusion of these censored words into the comment filters will do the trick.

让我们看看“油管”是否可以发现这些“意外事故”的根本原因，并采取措施防止将来再次发生这些问题。自由世界不能容忍或鼓励内容审查。还是让中共继续对Tik Tok和微信进行内容审查吧！

Let us see if YouTube can discover the root cause for these “accidents” and take steps to prevent their recurrence in future. Censorship cannot be condoned or encouraged in the free world. Let Tik Tok and WeChat carry on with their censorship’s in that other parallel universe controlled by the CCP.