It turns out that when an organization applies rules arbitrarily, they eventually piss off the wrong person.
Sounds like you are blaming the victim.
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
I watch a vegan channel that Youtube recommended to me quite often, and Im not even vegan. Based on her page, showing dogs being boiled alive, I think vegan isnt perhaps the best description for that content. A vegan channel is someone showing how to make salads.
YouTube should be smarter than having a Boolean for 'monetiziable'. Eg, vegan channel showing animal cruelty should be marked as showing 'animal cruelty (newsworthy)' and advertisers should be able to say they do/don't want to advertise on the 'animal cruelty (newsworthy)' tag. A big game hunting company might not want to advertise on that tag. Nor would a children's toy manufacturer. Fine. But the RSPCA, an environm…
I dont disagree that makes sense, in that it theoretically makes Youtube more money as well. Based on that, it seems like they are incentivized to figure it out. Unless that long tail of "non wholesome" videos really doesnt have enough money behind it to make it worthwhile to bother with. Which Im guessing is the case.
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#83Why was her YouTube channel nuked after this happening? Seems weird and dystopian, even if what she did was obviously very wrong.
It's general practice to shut down accounts of people who perpetuate infamous criminal acts, so as to at least prevent copycats.
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#84So if this person was not an employee, it's amazing to me how she got into the building? Usually these large tech campuses are pretty locked down, with at least one badged entrance, and security or front desk staff watching who comes and goes.
That said, I've never visited the YouTube campus, so maybe it bucks the norm.
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> Views 366,591 > Revenue $0.10 So basically all of her videos were demonetized?
Looks like it. Considering that she would have needed to increase her views by 3 orders of magnitude to scratch out $100/month from them. She should have did affiliate marketing & patreon.
> She should have did affiliate marketing
This is the modern version of "as seen on TV" ads, I've started unsubscribing to anyone that does it regularly. Advertising intermixed with content is the worst form of advertising.
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#86It turns out that when an organization applies rules arbitrarily, they eventually piss off the wrong person.
Generally when you have any rules at all, you piss off people. Can't make everyone happy.
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#87Content platforms have no place policing content. All the algorithms currently used are utterly flawed, and they will always be flawed, both technically and morally. Technically, they'll always have false positives, especially at scale. Morally, they turn the platform owners into political figures inherently, siding with or against certain thoughts and sentiments. The only solution is for platforms to be completely c…
They tried that. It's called "the_donald", and it completely overran and ruined Reddit.
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#88So if this person was not an employee, it's amazing to me how she got into the building? Usually these large tech campuses are pretty locked down, with at least one badged entrance, and security or front desk staff watching who comes and goes. That said, I've never visited the YouTube campus, so maybe it bucks the norm.
The shooting appeared to occur or at least begin in an outdoor cafe area.
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#89Earlier quoted context omitted.
I watch a vegan channel that Youtube recommended to me quite often, and Im not even vegan. Based on her page, showing dogs being boiled alive, I think vegan isnt perhaps the best description for that content. A vegan channel is someone showing how to make salads.
Seems to me that modern day veganism is more related to showing provocative videos of animal abuse than it is making salads.
Could be, I have no idea. I just watch a funny guy make salads and do weird diet experiments.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
I watch a vegan channel that Youtube recommended to me quite often, and Im not even vegan. Based on her page, showing dogs being boiled alive, I think vegan isnt perhaps the best description for that content. A vegan channel is someone showing how to make salads.
YouTube should be smarter than having a Boolean for 'monetiziable'. Eg, vegan channel showing animal cruelty should be marked as showing 'animal cruelty (newsworthy)' and advertisers should be able to say they do/don't want to advertise on the 'animal cruelty (newsworthy)' tag. A big game hunting company might not want to advertise on that tag. Nor would a children's toy manufacturer. Fine. But the RSPCA, an environm…
Couldn't agree more. Google is in the business of deciding what users want to see, and also apparently deciding, for the advertisers, who they want to do business with.