YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

Post by daemin » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:15 AM UTC

0xfeba wrote: post #342

ggg2 wrote: post #341

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I'm happy for you that you speak a language google happens to have support in, and that you have the time to besides creating and uploading content, to monitor it is not censored at a later, random, date by google. And that you were able to provide the US based documentation they required and that your videos content happened to not be in the blacklist of any nation state. /s (I guess)

YouTube is a private company. They are under no obligation to provide support in 5,000 different languages. Or to host your videos at all. This post reeks of entitlement.

Post by ololobus » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 9:54 AM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #398

scrollaway wrote: post #394

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We're not banning knives though, are we? Guns are different, and they're banned for the same reasons that, say, carrying around a bioweapon is banned. - Their primary purpose is to inflict harm. - The harm caused is potentially / easily lethal. - Their existence escalates nearly all situations. - They're dangerous items that can very easily cause accidental harm.

"we"? In the UK you are not allowed to carry a knife with you, unless you just bought one and are bringing to home or are a certified chief who needs one for work, or are going camping.

Post by Synaesthesia » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 10:11 AM UTC

jammygit wrote: post #20

userbinator wrote: post #7

What'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.)

I always think he’s mostly right, but a little too uncompromising, but then everything he says comes true. I don’t know how he predicted so far ahead at the time, it’s humbling. As a software author working at startups, am I part of the problem? I don’t understand how to make a good living without locking down the code to some extent, with few exceptions (it’s hard to found red hat)

Post by ZoomStop » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 10:28 AM UTC

gambiting wrote: post #398

scrollaway wrote: post #394

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're not banning knives though, are we? Guns are different, and they're banned for the same reasons that, say, carrying around a bioweapon is banned. - Their primary purpose is to inflict harm. - The harm caused is potentially / easily lethal. - Their existence escalates nearly all situations. - They're dangerous items that can very easily cause accidental harm.

"we"? In the UK you are not allowed to carry a knife with you, unless you just bought one and are bringing to home or are a certified chief who needs one for work, or are going camping.

Post by jeanlucas » Fri, Jul 05, 2019, 11:13 AM UTC

crankylinuxuser wrote: post #391

kgwxd wrote: post #76

I've noticed quite a few free software enthusiast posting their content to LBRY[1]. Doesn't seem like a perfect solution for every type of video getting messed up by YouTube lately, but I think infosec could find a good home there. [1] https://lbry.com/what

Absolutely not. Its more "decentralized crypto blockchain" nonsense. Nope, nope, and just nope.