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Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by ALittleLight »

DanBC wrote: post #687
ALittleLight wrote: post #407

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Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious Google is completely to blame here. Rather than say "Your channel will be deleted for unexplained copyright infringement" they could say "Videos X, Y, and Z contain copyrighted material at timestamps X', Y', and Z'. This material has been claimed, you may dispute it, because this is your first infringement we will allow you to correct the issue, etc." As the video points out, in orde…

You're trying to say that Google should be generous to people using their service to commit criminal offences? You can disagree with the law, but it's pretty clear he's breaking it. https://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap5.html > 506. Criminal offenses6 > (a) Criminal Infringement.— > (1) In general.—Any person who willfully infringes a copyright shall be punished as provided under section 2319 of title 18, if the i…

Yes Google should be generous to people breaking the law. There are many laws and they are complicated and often inscrutable and sometimes unfair. Breaking a law is something everyone does frequently, often without realizing it, so being generous and lenient with law breakers, especially those who have been valuable contributors, seems reasonable.

The allegation is that five of his videos had infringing content. Five out of six hundred. Being generous and letting him fix, remove, or contest the allegation prior to deleting the channel strikes me as a much better course than to just tell him "Your channel is being deleted for copyright infringement but we won't tell you where it happened."

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by ilikehurdles »

heartbeats wrote: post #713
Volundr wrote: post #463

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> Losing my job over them definitely dissuades me from sharing them in the future. This impedes my freedom of speech. Losing my friends over calling them assholes definitely dissuades me from doing so in the future. This impedes my freedom of speech. See how nonsensical that is? Just because something makes you less likely to speak your mind doesn't mean it's impeding your freedoms. You have the freedoms to call your…

Does freedom of association give my employer the right to fire me because I'm black? Is the Civil Rights Act of 1964 unconstitutional?

Is there a point to any of these ridiculous questions? Do you remember what the argument was about?

Are you implying that black people choose to be black like someone saying racist, firable things at work chooses to say those things?

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by cortesoft »

yeetfaraway wrote: post #462
cortesoft wrote: post #444

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It's not always about dissuading people from thinking about those ideas, it is about me not wanting to hear them.

Then run some blocking software locally on your own devices. If that's not enough, then it's obvious your concern is more about preventing everyone else from hearing opinions you don't approve of.

Good in theory, but I don't know of any software that can block just racist content from a website effectively.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by ilikehurdles »

heartbeats wrote: post #712
ilikehurdles wrote: post #435

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Anyone who would sign a contract that would give a bank that level of free reign over the terms of your mortgage is a pretty big fool.

Pretty much all personal bank accounts have a unilateral termination clause. I would be surprised to see a mortgage where the bank can't totally wreck you if they feel like it. Anyhow, you still need a bank account to get paid. If you can only work jobs that pay you in cash and don't need any access to bank accounts or the Internet themselves, that rules out 99% of businesses that could employ you.

https://www.web24.news/u/2020/04/can-the-bank-unilaterally-c...

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by dividedbyzero »

freeAgent wrote: post #701
vbsteven wrote: post #692

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Won't this approach eventually lead to what happened with blogging? 10-15 years ago we all had our own wordpress/static/ghost blogs hosted on our own domains, and then Blogger, Medium and Substack entered the space with the added benefits of discoverability and a very significant chunk of the self-hosted blogs moved to those platforms. I feel that with YouTube we just skipped that initial self-hosted step and immedia…

There used to be self-hosted video content on the web as well. It’s just that it isn’t very memorable due to the technical limitations of the time before YouTube and other platforms took it over.

Even today, self-hosting video is very far from trivial, and requires a lot of bandwidth and traffic if you aren't just sharing your videos with a couple of friends, that's not something I'd want to do on a small VPS.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by runamok »

I don't see any posters pointing to how broken DMCA is too.

This could be fixed tomorrow if the law had significant penalties for copy fraud in cases of fair use.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud

Give the reporters 5 strikes too... If you cry wolf 5 times on things that are proven fair use or spurious or without proof you are banned for X days from submitting claims (at a minimum).

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by raxxorrax »

Barrin92 wrote: post #730
raxxorrax wrote: post #638

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As someone whose skull would get measured again, please don't use tangential topics to justify censorship. It isn't anti-semitism that will get censored, it will be directed towards any form of dissident. Jews or minorities were never suppressed because there was too much freedom of speech or too much free media. If the internet gets censored in the name of anti-semitism it would certainly not decrease animosity. Fur…

>it will be directed towards any form of dissident. no it won't, this is just the typical American freakout. I'm German, here anti-semitism and hate speech are not only not propagated by private platforms (which is not censorship by the way), but banned (which is censorship). Our right wing party is diminished and unlike the US, we're not governed by complete lunatics. There is no automatic mechanism by which stoppin…

I am German too and we have a clear national trauma regarding these issues that should be plain to see and it should not serve as a template for policing speech on an international network.

I don't know if you remember, but we managed to actually create a second dictatorship after WW2 and also gave far left agitators a partial fault for collapsing Weimar. Not that the assassinations that came for their leadership wasn't cowardly and their opposition completely reactionary.

The US also stands out as being actually pretty solid on democracy and a main factor we can enjoy it today too.

And yes, the right got much stronger as criticism on immigration for example was declared to be nationalistic, while left leaning groups were actively mixing up refugees and immigrants to serve business interests. Of course the result is predictable.

You aren't allowed to call anyone a Nazi in Germany, that can have legal repercussions. It often has not because there is a cultural understanding. I think that fact would be a big surprise to many people advocating speech policies like they are implemented in Germany. And don't tell me there aren't staunch crackdowns on demonstrations if they stand in the way of interests. There is enough stuff to do and with more freedom of speech, we would prosper even more.

> Our right wing party is diminished

That should actually have been the argument 10 years ago.

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by ClumsyPilot »

blueterminal wrote: post #682
rkachowski wrote: post #666

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why then is it that suppliers and users shouldn't expect support?

Why should they? You're using a free (and honestly, amazing) service, and you agreed to the terms and conditions. Don't like it - don't use it.

>"Don't like it - don't use it."

Applies equally to heroin. When are we legalising it?

Re: They're deleting my channel, but they don't know why? [video]

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Post by mquarks »

ClumsyPilot wrote: post #738
blueterminal wrote: post #682

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Why should they? You're using a free (and honestly, amazing) service, and you agreed to the terms and conditions. Don't like it - don't use it.

>"Don't like it - don't use it." Applies equally to heroin. When are we legalising it?

He also said 'free'
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