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Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.
He kicked it off of cloudflare, not the internet
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I think you're underestimating the ability of HN readers to figure things out. Perhaps that is the answer to both questions.
This equivalent of "RTFM" is a hostile percept for communication, as it implies that it is right to hide or obfuscate relevant information so that the speaker has less of a job to do when producing clear speech. There are benefits to "RTFM". They may involve making sure there are shared assumptions during speech that allow further speech to be economized equitably between speaker and receiver. They may involve the in…
Words to avoid living by.
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That's really screwed up. Do you have more details? More examples?
With the help of Algolia's HN search, I was able to find the story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21671579 Apparently an organization called Shadowserver (a nonprofit security organization) claimed that the blog was part of the control system for a botnet, and the domain was transferred out of the registrant's control with no due process. They got it back, but the fact that such a thing is even possible in the…
> Domain names ought to be property, and like any other property should be protected against arbitrary seizure by courts of law.
I completely agree. Some group saying the domain is associated with malware shouldn't be enough to cause it to be seized. They should have to actually prove it in court.
> Linus Sebastian Something to understand, for those who might have just seen some youtube videos of him being goofy, is that he's an actor . The guy on camera doing stupid stuff is a stage persona. It's an intentionally cultivated image and media persona to get as many video views as possible. I sort of see him as one possible aspect of the low/medium budget TV production stuff which is common in his home city, Vanc…
Sebastian and Linus Media Group seem to be pretty frank and open about a lot of this: see for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzRGBAUz5mA&list=PL8mG-RkN2u... on putting up gurning thumbnails and navigating the YT algorithm (and that whole playlist, including a revenue breakdown https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t73wXF8IF-8&list=PL8mG-RkN2u... ), the Gamers Nexus video on LTT's production process https://www.yo…
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Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them.
> Wow that's extremely fucked up. He's right, nobody should have that power. If they do have that power, we should take it away from them. I agree. We should make the government use its monopoly on force to take freedoms away from people we disagree with. How dare a company decide with whom it does business and under what terms?
I follow CGP Grey’s stuff and it’s been interesting and instructive to see how he diversified. * His Youtube channel is his main platform * However, the money mostly comes from patreon subscribers, and you can also have videos delivered there * He also earns income from a podcast, Cortex * The Podcast has its own brand of sellable things, currently journals and Tshirts * He had a second podcast, hello internet, curre…
Also he has a channel on Nebula, a streaming service set up as a clear hedge against YouTube doing bad things. He was one of the driving forces behind Nebula, but I believe he is no longer involved in running it.
I follow CGP Grey’s stuff and it’s been interesting and instructive to see how he diversified. * His Youtube channel is his main platform * However, the money mostly comes from patreon subscribers, and you can also have videos delivered there * He also earns income from a podcast, Cortex * The Podcast has its own brand of sellable things, currently journals and Tshirts * He had a second podcast, hello internet, curre…
CGP Grey is strange, so to say. He effectively abandoned Hello Internet. They once mentioned that they have 900K subs. Grey fully controlled HI, and it was way more popular than Cortex. If he wants to diversify so much abandoning project like this just doesn’t make sense. Also he has no basic decency to announce cancelation and left Tims hanging, for many of whom it was the podcast.
a good story about floatplane: i signed up pretty much as soon as it was announced, then i forgot about it and also forgot my password. i was billed -very little- for a while then i opened a support ticket to have my account restored, since i had been billed for a while i at least wanted to watch some content. but apparently something in the backend had changed and they plainly refunded me from the time i had my last…
This is why those services as so necessary.
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The general "danger" of old videos comes more from people digging up what was said and causing a shitstorm because of it, rather than Youtube themselves going out of their way to delete channels because of old videos. If people want to dig through your old videos and want to cause a shitstorm, self-hosting isn't going to protect you.
I don’t like a lot of the things being done by people who get deplatformed, but honestly I think there should be protections against cutting people off. Before the internet, I never worried about not being able to use the postal service or making a phone call. But now I worry about something stupid happening that obliterates my online life because Google decides to nuke my account.