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

Post by im3w1l » Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 10:25 PM UTC

root_axis wrote: post #203

im3w1l wrote: post #196

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Internal employee pressure is the cause of some things getting removed, but they are not behind everything. In this particular case it might bdriven by legal concerns or something. But it should also be seen in light of the status quo. When censorship being the new default, then it doesn't take a strong reason to add another thing, such as hacking-adjacent content to the no-go pile. The code is already written, and t…

Without any evidence this is just speculation. The reality is, there are many popular political YouTube channels that represent viewpoints all across the spectrum and this is an easily verifiable fact. I am yet to see any evidence that YouTube is motivated by anything other than money.

Post by Dylan16807 » Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 10:32 PM UTC

b3kart wrote: post #34

criley2 wrote: post #25

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>What if... instead of YouTube you'd have several intereset based sites which could actually handle their moderation and workload instead of being a giant uncaring behemoth? What if... the average viewer was willing to pay for video content instead of requiring a free, unprofitable service run as a "Free add-on" to an Ad Empire? Youtube may finally be profitable in the past few years but the first 90% of its existenc…

> What if... the average viewer was willing to pay for video content That would solve all of our problems, wouldn't it? Too bad there's likely always going to be someone willing to offer the same service for free + ads and/or selling users data. Unless people start valuing their privacy/data much more than they do at the moment (or regulation comes in), it's just wishful thinking.

Post by kevwil » Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 11:24 PM UTC

Post by a1369209993 » Wed, Apr 14, 2021, 11:56 PM UTC

qayxc wrote: post #275

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They didn't use your videos per hour/minute figure; they used hours of content per minute, so it still comes out 30'000 reviewers.

It's not about the viewing time, though, it's about the videos. The misconception is that it's the review process that's the problem - it isn't. That can be automated just fine. The problem arises as soon as there are complaints or issues with the content and that depends on the number of videos, not the duration. So if there's a problem with a video it can get flagged, de-monetised or even taken down automatically b…

Post by water8 » Thu, Apr 15, 2021, 12:08 AM UTC

SamoyedFurFluff wrote: post #177

water8 wrote: post #100

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If you change the MAC address on your cable modem you can get tons of different IPs. Same thing with cellular networks. With raspberryPis so cheap, fingerprints don't work that well for all devices.

There are relatively few people capable of doing this compared to the population of the world that uses YouTube, and there’s even fewer people who, even with capacity, will be doing this just to upload illegal content into YouTube. I think this sizes down the problem of manual review quite easily.