Why wouldn’t they update the support ticket? Their statement seems very boiler plate. “It’s a glitch, we’re looking into it”. Weird it took all this attention for that little statement.
That is one of the reasons to stop using the front page of sites like HN (and lobste.rs and other similar 'popularity-driven' sites) and access the site through the RSS feed. This way you get to see all posts, popularity be damned. On news sites it sometimes gives an interesting insight in the editing process where they first rush out with articles with descriptive titles only to change the title (and, often, the article) to something less descriptive but more 'correct'.
I would be interested in seeing a list of all the banned phrases for some perspective. It's hard for me to understand why they would ban these phrases in particular. From the outside looking it it would certainly seem that Google is taking it's cues from the Chinese government directly on this matter.
Yes, I suspect (as another commenter said) that these might be phrases that have been used in some 'political spamming' campaign flooding youtube with hundreds of thousands of OT comments on random videos. So they might have been treated as garbage and deleted.
I can understand that if every youtube video starts to be spammed with "Trump sucks" comments, Youtube might decide to auto-delete them. It doesn't have to be pro-Trump censorship.
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[ 3.4 ms ] story [ 42.8 ms ] threadProper title is "Youtube auto-deletes lots of phrases that are commonly used by spammers, including phrases critical of the Chinese government"
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/19190975?hl=en
> "This appears to be an error in our enforcement systems and we are investigating," YouTube said.
I can understand that if every youtube video starts to be spammed with "Trump sucks" comments, Youtube might decide to auto-delete them. It doesn't have to be pro-Trump censorship.