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Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by thatguy0900 »

bbarn wrote: post #38
scrps wrote: post #23

Yet you can browse youtube and learn how to build an AR-15 lower reciever, learn tactical shooting, and knife fighting*... But for the love of all things lawful don't explain a buffer overflow or a side-channel attack. I am not suggesting those videos/channels be banned either just pointing the uneven absurdity of YT's policies.

Gun channels have almost all been demonetized. In fact, just about every vertical is "demonetized" in large portions of their content creators. It's almost like youtube is the only one profiting at scale, weird.

YouTube makes no money on demonitized videos as well, right?

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by progre »

throwaway0a5e wrote: post #39
syshum wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They have removed ALOT of gun channels as well. Most of the bigger Gun channels now just talk about news / reviews not really educational for that it is moved to BitChute or other YT Alternatives

I really miss the discussions of manufacturing improvements and design revisions that Ian Mc-whatever has in his older videos. Even if he's uploading elsewhere he's tailoring he newer stuff to the YT rules so he's not discussing manufacturing as much. Which is stupid when you consider that so much of the stuff he deals with is historical curiosities from over a century ago and incremental manufacturing innovations of…

> Ian Mc-whatever

We just call him Gun Jesus

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by TehCorwiz »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #41
bbarn wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Gun channels have almost all been demonetized. In fact, just about every vertical is "demonetized" in large portions of their content creators. It's almost like youtube is the only one profiting at scale, weird.

YouTube makes no money on demonitized videos as well, right?

If they run ads on them they do. Demonetized just means the creators don’t see any.

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by phendrenad2 »

ve55 wrote: post #13
djsumdog wrote: post #5

Looks like he started a channel on a Peertube server, but it has nothing on it yet. I hope he has a backup of all his videos. ALWAYS HAVE A LOCAL BACKUP of all the content you upload to other services. Facebook is not your photo backup. All your stuff could disappear off Google tomorrow. The cloud is literally someone else's computer. The biggest takeaway for all YouToobers is to organize all their videos in a manor…

I would go even further: Always have a local backup of anything on the Internet that is important to you, whether you made it or not, unless you know there are many other accessible versions of it for redundancy. You never know when a large company will delete it without notice. (Is this feasible? Perhaps not, but given how cheap storage is, if this could be even semi-automated, it would easily save a lot of heartach…

This 1000%. I can't tell you how many times I click a link, find it's broken, plug it into Wayback Machine, only to find it was never indexed, or the images weren't archived, or only the homepage was indexed, etc.

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by thatguy0900 »

d33lio wrote: post #32

YouTube is now a hostile space for creators of any political or social creed that create "edge" worthy content. Plain and simple. If you're a trans or LGBTQ creator your content is not safe. If you produce "hacking" or firearms videos your content is not safe. Maybe some day the millennial generation will end the boomer era mantra of passing legislation federally or adopting policies that censoring content for the ch…

The millennials will certainly not be the generation to end emotional censorship

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by Solvitieg »

d33lio wrote: post #32

YouTube is now a hostile space for creators of any political or social creed that create "edge" worthy content. Plain and simple. If you're a trans or LGBTQ creator your content is not safe. If you produce "hacking" or firearms videos your content is not safe. Maybe some day the millennial generation will end the boomer era mantra of passing legislation federally or adopting policies that censoring content for the ch…

But I think it's largely millennials who are pushing for more content moderation on the web. That's been my impression reading forums such as HN and Reddit.

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by thatguy0900 »

TehCorwiz wrote: post #43
thatguy0900 wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube makes no money on demonitized videos as well, right?

If they run ads on them they do. Demonetized just means the creators don’t see any.

Is that something YouTube does? I was under the impression demonitized videos had no ads of any kind. As opposed to the copyright system rules where you will get ads but the revenue is diverted to someone else instead.

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by d33lio »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #45
d33lio wrote: post #32

YouTube is now a hostile space for creators of any political or social creed that create "edge" worthy content. Plain and simple. If you're a trans or LGBTQ creator your content is not safe. If you produce "hacking" or firearms videos your content is not safe. Maybe some day the millennial generation will end the boomer era mantra of passing legislation federally or adopting policies that censoring content for the ch…

The millennials will certainly not be the generation to end emotional censorship

I agree, it's curious how in recent times a foundational aspect of modern democrats is a belief that not being aware or able to see something really solves an issue or corrects a perceived ethical wrong.

For instance, don't like what your opponents have to say? Just make it so their supporters have to go to their own platform. The insidious angle of this is how this kind of thinking starts to bleed into payments processing / CC companies.

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by hejja »

thatguy0900 wrote: post #47
TehCorwiz wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If they run ads on them they do. Demonetized just means the creators don’t see any.

Is that something YouTube does? I was under the impression demonitized videos had no ads of any kind. As opposed to the copyright system rules where you will get ads but the revenue is diverted to someone else instead.

you are right. demonitized means unsuitable for advertisers, which means no ads.

Re: YouTube removed a Cybersecurity channel without much reason

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Post by scrps »

Avtomatk wrote: post #40
scrps wrote: post #23

Yet you can browse youtube and learn how to build an AR-15 lower reciever, learn tactical shooting, and knife fighting*... But for the love of all things lawful don't explain a buffer overflow or a side-channel attack. I am not suggesting those videos/channels be banned either just pointing the uneven absurdity of YT's policies.

> I am not suggesting those videos / channels be banned either just pointing the uneven absurdity of YT's policies. I make the same clarifications in each comment I make so as not to receive a wave of downvotes, it is incredible how HN decreases in quality more and more.

Just to clarify, I didn't make that distinction to avoid downvotes, I made it because I believe it, down or up votes be damned. If the freedom to exchange knowledge has devolved into a popularity contest that determines what knowledge is acceptable to share then we should all be very afraid.
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