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YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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Google is a private company. It's fully within their rights to remove any video they don't like, for whatever reason.

It comes with the territory if we want Google to be able to censor hate speech and misinformation.

You can always use a competing site, or build your own.

Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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Maybe it's time for a public company-independent complains-platform where all companies are obliged by law to respond. Each complaint of course is hidden behind some anti-bot captcha/protection so that the companies themselve can't use AI to answer your complaints.

That's basically what the author suggests when they say: > Anyhow, I truly believe humanity has to rollback to operating at a human scale. It's impossible to operate a complaints-platform on a global scale if it's run by humans. According to GMI [0], 500 hours of content are uploaded every minute. Given an average video duration of about 12 minutes [1], that would be 2500 videos per hour. That's just too much to manu…

Maybe we don't need to let people upload that much video content.

Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

#64

Google is a private company. It's fully within their rights to remove any video they don't like, for whatever reason. It comes with the territory if we want Google to be able to censor hate speech and misinformation. You can always use a competing site, or build your own.

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Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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FYI, this is the video: https://peertube.sunknudsen.com/videos/watch/182e7a03-729c-4... ; the links in the description:

KRACK Attacks: Breaking WPA2 https://www.krackattacks.com/

KRACK - Key Reinstallation Attacks: Forcing Nonce Reuse in WPA2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOgJswt7nAc

Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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Time to install GPT-3 on your own server and unleash it onto Google-Support, YouTube-Support, Alpha-Support, etc. to complain about your situation ;-) You just need to answer the captchas to keep it goin.

Combine that with 2captcha.com, what do we have? Lol

Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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>Anyhow, I truly believe humanity has to rollback to operating at a human scale. >Using algorithms to flag content is totally fine… problem is when humans cannot interact with humans anymore and AI gets to chose what is right and wrong. Can't agree more.

The thing is, we have to make sure we're OK with the consequences of going this way. Would people be happy to wait for days, maybe weeks, for their video to be approved for upload to YouTube? Would that work with the current society's attention span? Is YouTube as we know it actually feasible without AI-based moderation? Can it be a sustainable business with an army of human moderators and/or a drastically reduced sc…

Apple reviews each app update manually. Not only each app, but each and every one of its updates too.

Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who pays for the moderators? You still need a lot of manpower if you don't want algorithms, regardless of whether you have one Youtube or a thousand SpecialInterestTube.

Google had a revenue of $180B in 2020, and their EBITDA was $55B. I'm no accountant but that sounds like an absolutely insane profit margin. 8-12% would seem much more palatable, so that means they have over 25B of excess profits they could spend on 500.000 middle class incomes for content moderators. YouTube represents 10% of Google's income BTW, so the other 90% of middle class incomes could do moderation for their…

I usually frame it this way - Mazda Motor Corporation, an order of magnitude smaller company can provide me with a several salons in my And Google, the mighty megacorporation, can't even clear a basic phone support bar, much less a local user support office in each region? Something normal for other corporations?

Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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Time to install GPT-3 on your own server and unleash it onto Google-Support, YouTube-Support, Alpha-Support, etc. to complain about your situation ;-) You just need to answer the captchas to keep it goin.

With AI-based support automation, it might end up like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnzlbyTZsQY

Re: YouTube suspends account for linking to a PhD research on WPA2 vulnerability

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>Anyhow, I truly believe humanity has to rollback to operating at a human scale. >Using algorithms to flag content is totally fine… problem is when humans cannot interact with humans anymore and AI gets to chose what is right and wrong. Can't agree more.

I'm of the complete opposite opinion. I look forward to the day when our machine overlords make all decisions. Humans are assholes with their own nefarious agendas. Machines are not. Of course if the day comes where machines ask for bribes then I'll change my opinion ;)
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