“Free speech” under capitalism means the freedom to promote fascism, rascism, misogyny, homophobia, genocide, etc…
But if you post half a second of a Disney movie, your account will be permanently deleted.
Intention: YouTubers can stop with the whole self censoring shit.
Example: Unaliving; PDF file; grape; etc.
Reality: Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and other right wing grifters receive zero censorship while YouTubers still have to self censor to receive monetization.
YouTube started to censor foss content for being violet and dangerous.
for being violet
But what if it was chartreuse?
They won’t ever say it out loud but they have always removed videos for mentioning alternative frontends or other technology they view as direct threats to their revenue stream.
How long before Google locks YT down to loading only on Chrome, and only on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, or Android, and only without ad blockers of any kind, including hardware ad blockers like PiHole being implemented anywhere, and straight-up blocking it from loading at all on non-Chrome browsers (to also include other Chromium browsers) and on Linux or iOS, and enforcing TPM2 and SecureBoot mandates for authentication, and blocking downloading and re-uploading of YT vids, using DRM?
Basically, I wouldn’t put it above them to ensure their video platform only runs on their browser, and only on hardware that they deem worthy of running it, even if it means somehow implementing a Vanguard-style rootkit. Something else I wouldn’t put it past Google to try, is completely discontinuing the YT browser client and fully locking the API down to the official app, and still implementing a Vanguard-style rootkit on that.
they are working on it
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/2147959
- https://monero.town/post/989081
- https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109
- https://github.com/chromium/chromium/pull/187
don’t worry, they didn’t abandon it. they have continued development hidden from sight in the android version of the chromium engine
Actual reality: Right-wing grifters are already on a “whitelist”, as long as they also talk about lower taxes, lessening regulations and worker’s protections, and also got popular enough. Source: knew a former moderator for Google.
whitelist vs discovered the algorithm, same thing really.
Intention: YouTubers can stop with the whole self censoring shit.
lol. that’s not the intention.
Can we talk about adblockers, or is that still somehow worse than nazi shit?
Btw they removed a popular Youtuber’s “Degoogle Your Life” series lmfao (Linus Tech Tips). But a far-right thinnly-veiled racist video? All a’okay according to Google.
Great, now that 50% of a video can be a direct call for genocide, does that at LEAST mean I can use ONE instance of a “bad” word or speak of “icky” things like death and drug abuse without being demonized?
See the issue here is Google/Youtube still get to be the ones to decide what “may outweigh the harm risk”. And the answer I bet will usually be whichever one serves their financial interests.
Which on one hand sure, it is their platform after all. But don’t do me dry and claim you used lube.
Introducing: Pay More, Say More
Surely this can’t become deeply problematic for the social fabric.
I still wouldn’t trust Google not to nuke my channel on a whim even in spite of those relaxed moderation rules. What’s stopping a little bribe from the right company or political party from causing them to backpedal or even tighten their grip further?
This is why one should at least mirror their content to PeerTube or a similar alternative platform like that even if they’re not going to just outright post future content to said alternative and give up on YT altogether.
they dont need to nuke your channel, they just bury your videos with thier algorithim, this is what pushed many smaller content creators off youtube in the pass. a channel i used to follow, i would have to painstakingly search it through other videos that arnt even related to it.
I agree. We’ve seen enough times in the past where a creator would get a strike from a video several years old because the rules changes. Anyone legit should be careful.
Slope’s Game Room is about to lose his channel over ‘hate speech’ that isn’t even his. One more reason for me to not post any future video content to YT if I ever seriously get into making vids and instead just posting everything to PeerTube where it at least isn’t in danger of getting nuked because Google got pissed at me.
Update: he got to keep his channel. Still one more reason to not put any future content on YT should I pick up video content creation though.
i saw that on a channel i used to follow, they were getting strike so they had to take it down. kinda hoping they would give them the last strike, because turned into trump loving shitheels
We will (still) allow children’s cartoon characters to be mutilated and put into explicit situations and then push them as child friendly, but how dare you use a swear in the first 15 seconds of a video or say the work kill.
At least true crime youtubers won’t have to bleep half their videos anymore /s
Moderators were previously told to remove videos if one-quarter or more of the content violated YouTube policies. Now, that limit has been increased to half.
This seems like alien speak to me. They announce that shit, someone read it, and then repeated it in an article. But what does it mean?
Can you have 6 contents and make 2 really crazy? Can you tell people to commit violence for 5 minutes and then review a game for 6 minutes? Is there a dude with tvtropes open going through and marking the contents of content?
It depends on who is being targeted.
If you make a video calling for attacks on women, palestinians, gay people, etc., that’s all good!
If you talk about taxing rich people, that’s extreme violence. Immediate ban.
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
I’ve worked for TnS at a different company.
I would guess it is likely per video, or they have multiple types of review going over it on a per video basis and then also maybe the channel as a whole?
So you could have half of any video contain the violating content, and it would be clear.
This sucks but I think this will lead to a Youtube exodus and other platforms like Peertube will creator and user base will grow
How many people have even heard of peertube?
when the site becomes a 100% right wing echo chamber people will flee it.
youtube shadowbanning, demonitization and censorship is the most retarded shit that’s ever happened to the internet. the whole website is videos and comments of people who cater to kids and commercial advertisers and cant say shit.
I like freedom of speech but it seems like it would be pretty difficult to weigh those things against one another. what is the metric that they have in common? I don’t know that there is one
Wait what??? This came out of nowhere ??
YouTube not cracking down on free speech??
“Muh
freedumsprofit” outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.
