YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
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Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#2Overbearing youtube, 10 years from now if it's still a medium it may be a far-cry from an expressive and genuine platform (Even worse-so than it is now).
How long until biohacking, and other things are blocked based on the same sensitivity triggers for the topic?
Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#3We should just go through and report all the defcon and black hat talks, along with most other security talks, including those by google researchers.
Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#4Overbearing youtube, 10 years from now if it's still a medium it may be a far-cry from an expressive and genuine platform (Even worse-so than it is now). How long until biohacking, and other things are blocked based on the same sensitivity triggers for the topic?
Don’t worry the hatespeech will still be there, for something to be banned it needs to do something that like 80% of politicians oppose (“hacking” videos are only useful for crime, so we must stop the kids from criming), or that causes advertisers to pull out, or if the content otherwise hits their bottom line (reporting on hate crimes, privacy, tracker blocking, etc).
Anything else is fine - you have to be either small target or get a large amount of media attention for them to enforce some semblance of their stated policies (which is why defcon and black hat videos haven’t been touched)
Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#5Overbearing youtube, 10 years from now if it's still a medium it may be a far-cry from an expressive and genuine platform (Even worse-so than it is now). How long until biohacking, and other things are blocked based on the same sensitivity triggers for the topic?
Overbearing youtube, 10 years from now if it's still a medium it may be a far-cry from an expressive and genuine platform
Yahoo's not the place it was in its heyday. Facebook's not the place it was in its heyday. Even Google's not the place it was 10 years ago. I don't think anyone is immune. The best you can do it to make sure the trajectory is positive. Netflix isn't the place it used to be. I think that's positive, though.
How long until biohacking, and other things are blocked based on the same sensitivity triggers for the topic?
All the really cool stuff should disappear from YouTube. That's just the natural order of things. They no longer want to be edgy. They want to be fat and happy off those big establishment corporate dollars. They've positioned themselves to be the next cable. That just means they want to be the current "vast wasteland."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_and_the_Public_Inte...
The faster YouTube becomes the next cable, the better. The less time the public discourse spends squished under the pressing thumb of the corporate oligarchs, the better.
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#6We should just go through and report all the defcon and black hat talks, along with most other security talks, including those by google researchers.
I reported Google's recent video about their CTF hacking competition. We won't be safe as long as dangerous videos like that exist on Youtube.
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#7What's next, cracking and reverse-engineering? Debugging? (Anti-authoritarian) programming?
As usual, Stallman tends to be quite prescient: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html (perhaps more like "right to watch" in this context.)
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#8It's like banning Karate & Judo because it teaches violence. (When it actually improves personal security/safety)
Re: YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
#9Overbearing youtube, 10 years from now if it's still a medium it may be a far-cry from an expressive and genuine platform (Even worse-so than it is now). How long until biohacking, and other things are blocked based on the same sensitivity triggers for the topic?
>an expressive and genuine platform (Even worse-so than it is now)
Yeah it already is hard enough to dig through the sea of YouTube personalities who mimic each other and start up with the YouTube-isms.
Nothing is worse when someone you follow stars doing reaction videos, rants... YouTube drama :(
I already rarely leave the handful of channels I follow. Too much garbage to dig through.
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#10Has everyone forgotten that you can easily just host your own website and throw up whatever video content you want there?
I can’t imagine creating a ton of educational content and then having it all depend on the whims of a single platform.
This is not the end of infosec or hacking videos.