Logan Paul is being blamed by Google for increase in internet censorship Popular YouTuber Logan Paul has been cited by Google as a major factor in increased censorship online. A leaked document from the company titled \u2018The Good Censor\u2019 names Paul\u2019s controversial vlog in Japan\u2019s Aokigahara \u2018Suicide Forest\u2019 as being one of many events that has led to this increase. \u201cHugely popular Youtuber Logan Paul drew criticism for an insensitive clip of him seeing a suicide victim in Aokigahara forest, Japan,\u201d the document reads. \u201c\u2026The controversy raised the question of how much censorship we should demand from Youtube, and whether it is putting profit before people.\u201d While YouTube pulled Paul from its premium advertising program and deleted the video in question, Paul remains a massive presence on the platform, and will even engage in a boxing rematch with fellow YouTuber Olajide \u2018KSI\u2019 Olatunji in summer of 2019. Read More: Usain Bolt does a Fortnite celebration after scoring on his professional football debut \u2013 VIDEO – Google likewise points to other major events as having affected censorship on their platform, from the shooting of Philando Castile to the 2018 U.S. presidential election. While the company claims that free speech is a \u2018utopian principle,\u2019 it also holds that these events have \u2018undermined\u2019 it, and are struggling to find ways to prevent hate speech and the spread of misinformation. Google has since responded to the leak, and claim that the document does not represent their official position on censorship, but instead offers research as to how users are responding to controversial issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Logan Paul is being blamed by Google for increase in internet censorship Popular YouTuber Logan Paul has been cited by Google as a major factor in increased censorship online. A leaked document from the company titled \u2018The Good Censor\u2019 names Paul\u2019s controversial vlog in Japan\u2019s Aokigahara \u2018Suicide Forest\u2019 as being one of many events that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}