Google hiring 10,000 reviewers to censor YouTube content By Zaida Green

8 December 2017 — WSWS

Google is escalating its campaign of internet censorship, announcing that it will expand its workforce of human censors to over 10,000, the internet giant announced on December 4. The censors’ primary focus will be videos and other content on YouTube, its video-sharing platform, but will work across Google to censor content and train its automated systems, which remove videos at a rate four times faster than its human employees.

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Engaging North Korea II: Evidence from the Clinton Administration

8 December 2017 — National Security Archive

Perry: U.S. Planned for War during 1994 Nuclear Crisis, but Understood “War Involves Many Casualties”

U.S. Confronted Pyongyang on Missiles but Also Worried a “Starving North Korea” Could Create a “Dangerously Chaotic Situation”

Declassified Transcripts, Reports and Cables Spell Out U.S. and Allied Concerns, Options

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 612 

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