Topic: Youtube starts campaign of mass censorship and demonetization (Read 1014 times)

Though, the very reason why content creators stick with youtube is due to the income they can generate as they gather views and likes. Plus youtube is somehow the most popular, so it's kinda obvious though.

Although if the case is somewhat like this, my first question is, will the decentralized video sharing platform generate incomes for the content creators? if yes, then this can happen, but the process will be very slow and it will take years and years before it even became known to the public

Its time that we should move to the decentralized video sharing platforms. Such platforms does exists but we don't watch videos on those channels and therefore there is very less traffic there. If decentralized platforms become popular, these YouTube will not be able to hijack content creator rights.

Back in 2018, Google and Facebook stopped accepting cryptocurrency ads and it started the dump to $3k/BTC. It's not very different from censoring and shutting down channels that influencers had already experienced just weeks ago. All these are happening even to the channels that discuss Covid19. It's coming back again to make the BTC price drop this lower again.

I have subscribed to a channel that daily posts videos but I did not receive their notification anymore.

Youtube starts campaign of mass censorship and demonetization


Aw. Too bad. I kinda liked Youtube. And now they are censoring themselves right out of business.


 

Buttchute got their search index sort of working and thus became a workable stand-in for (((them)))tube for a while.  They heavily promote Trump-tards which necessitates some work-arounds in searching.  For this reason, among others, I figured that they were a stop-gap and didn't even bother to have an account.

Now it seems that Buttchute is damaging their index at the request of someone.  Hard to know who it might be, but when I search for a vid which I know was uploaded using a string like 'jewish ceo pfizer', nada.  Even the string 'jewish' comes up blank.  Again, it's a real mystery who Buttchute might be bending over for.  Maybe someone could help a brother out and come up with some ideas?

Anyway, I knew that it was just a matter of time before I would need to move on to (and maybe even support) a decentralized vid sharing platform.  I'll certainly look for one who's design is such that metadata can be indexed by even more nodes than have the ability to actually host content.

What would be trick would be to be able to use redirects of some such to fool the big-daddy algos into giving content a thumbs up for indexing, then flipping back to real content so end-users could find genuine content on occasion rather than just curated cat-vid garbage through their platforms.  I don't know the tech well enough to know if this could be done.

Bump.

Interesting to note that this thread ran it's course and finished even before the plandemic started.  Interesting to note that now the policy is that even perfectly accurate information is banned if it 'contributes to vaccine hesitancy'.

Even more interesting, the wild and crazy 'anti-vaccine' submissions to their platform are, if anything, promoted.  Sober information backed up with links to authoritative source links are the ones which are most heavily attacked so obviously they are the biggest threat.

At this point almost every one of the Jewtube channels I used to scan has had their accounts deleted.  I basically use Jewtube to see who won a UFC match of interest, and not much more.  Let my kid watch 'Masha and the Bear' vids on it.  Bitchute is the platform I used most now since they got their indexing working (sometimes) but I don't trust them and feel that it's just a matter of time before they zap the worthwhile channels as well.  They cannot do it just yet for growth reasons, but my spidy sense tells me they are chomping at the bit, and they promote the worst kinds of limited hangout trash.  Lbry/Odysee seems the most promising to me from what little I know.

I never did 'subscribe' or 'like' anything on any platform.  The now defunct(*) channels on Jewtube that I used to scan (corbett, TLAV, knowmorenews, etc) have actually been brought back online but with a lot of the content deleted and their owners not allowed to even log in.  Clearly fishy things are going on.  What, exactly, is not clear yet.

Looked into it already. Thx!

I am not referencing a specific article. If you can tell me which subject in particular you are trying to learn about maybe I can help though.

Can you hyperlink the article you read?

despite its bad, its their right, right to private discriminacy

People whos full job is youtube are so sick of youtube's politic with its cencorship and demonetization. And btw I noticed that now they put 2 ads in thr beginning instead of 1, some of them you can't even skip. They want users to buy that premium

I think that this isn't right because, youtube it's internet and in internet shouldn't be any censorship exept self-censorship.

Sorry for the late reply, but yes there have been a number of prominent Youtube creators who've backed up their entire Youtube back-catalog on LBRY.

Just some examples:

Jordan Peterson (2,073,327 subscribers -on Youtube- ) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@JordanBPeterson/c5724e280283cd985186af9a62494aae377daabd

Veritasium (5,918,886 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@veritasium/fb364ef587872515f545a5b4b3182b58073f230f

Timcast (421,656 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@timcast/c9da929d12afe6066acc89eb044b552f0d63782a

Gavin McInnes (334,607 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@theGavin2000/964c0e89e04bd31a3d876537f9aeef83d47ebb91

The Linux Gamer (44,002 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@TheLinuxGamer/feb61536c007cdf4faeeaab4876cb397feaf6b51

Vegan Gains (345,627 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@VeganGains/1efa9b640ad980b2ec53834d60e9cff9554979cd

Eli The Comuter Guy (947,097 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@EliTheComputerGuy/8914f8e31ae94b9d9c2011b10b43d72283beae4f

CryptoCandor (18,878 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@CryptoCandor/9152f3b054f692076a6882d1b58a30e8781cc8e6

Brian Lunduke (64,769 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@Lunduke/e8f68563d242f6ac9784dcbc41dd86c28a9391d6

Bitcoin and Friends (19,747 subscribers) => https://beta.lbry.tv/@bitcoinandfriends/a403ce7eff82b75a530dffd211ddc69847be4425

I'm sure there are at least a couple of names you recognize. I haven't made a full list, there are many more. This just shows that it's not impossible for a decentralized platform to draw in big content creators.

What happened with Silk Road?

This is slightly different, but I suspect that if you try to repress content on the Internet, you wind up making it more common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdfuUEduYno

A good quality videos that will oppose their interest can still be shutdown. How can that be fair? First is that they have been destroying their competitors unprofessionally and now they will start to cut down anything that is against the political party which they are in favor off?

What can I say I might end up watching videos from different sources instead hhmm.

Though it is of course far slower than massive immediate centralization of government of course.

But the outcome will be the same.

Yes, free markets don't really exist in the technology sector in the current state of capitalism.  A few big players dominate the scene and we have companies like Facebook and Google that buy up all the other companies.  People like to hate on socialism/communism for the centralization of power but capitalism does indeed have the same outcome in many ways.

You are both kind of right. EU laws are definitely influencing the situation, and they are using things like copyright as a pretext to achieve this goal of censorship.

And who told you that the EU has not this as a goal?
Right wing stances are growing in the EU and this is a huge headache for European Leaders.