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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by betwixthewires »

0xffff2 wrote: post #105
betwixthewires wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does there need to be "a clear alternative?" A video host is a video host. I don't care where I watch videos, I only care about what I'm trying to watch. I never understood this insistence that a video has to be on a certain site. The more video hosting sites there are the better.

YouTube provides content curation in addition to mere video hosting. In the current state, I can open up my YouTube subscriptions page and see a list of all new videos from people I'm interested in. If every video creator hosts their work on a different platform, I no longer have a one stop shop for video consumption. I subscribe to lots of people on YouTube, but there are probably only two or three that I care enoug…

I think curation might be one of the drivers of the problems we have nowadays, I'd prefer a host that does no curation.

> If every video creator hosts their work on a different platform, I no longer have a one stop shop for video consumption.

Yes you can, use an RSS reader and subscribe via RSS. This problem was solved before tube sites were even widespread, and then the UX for subscriptions devolved, primarily because these sites want to lock you in and make you feel how you do. But you can still curate your own feed and have all your video content in one feed, I do it, you just have to use RSS.

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Post by titzer »

gambler wrote: post #87

Any large communication platform has a choice: either accept some form of content neutrality or become a petty and chaotic tyrant constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other. YouTube made its choice. Now, random videos and channels get demonetized, content gets deleted for no reason and people covering basic news speak in code to avoid the wrath of the idiot AI. In the background Google publishes bats…

It's Kafka-esque, really. Google has always thought it is smarter than everyone else and that has led, inexorably, to it establishing itself as the final arbiter of truth. Except Google is a dysfunctional, distracted, neurotic, schizophrenic entity, like all organizations, with an ever-changing set of in-fighting fiefdoms and warring executives.

Worse, growthism forced its "Organize the world's information" mission into "Swallow and monetize the world's information" with an added helping of "know exactly what every person wants, even if they don't know they want it yet."

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by EastToWest »

hapless wrote: post #114

It appears to have been banned when the author offered an illegal sweepstakes. Contests and sweepstakes are carefully regulated in America, with slightly different regimes in all 50 states. You should not run one unless you have gotten legal help with it!

Source? The creator's twitter doesn't mention that at all.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by JasonFruit »

corobo wrote: post #48
fragileone wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a peer-to-peer video client, with part of it's data being directly shared (similarly to torrents) and part via a blockchain. This makes it highly resistant to censorship and thus is where many people are moving their channels to.

> This makes it highly resistant to censorship We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"

And people opposing powerful institutions, and people who are concerned they may be censored in the future, and people who love free speech and want to enrich any medium that promotes it, and people who have unpopular opinions, right or wrong... and some racists too. That's the way freedom works: some people use it to do good stuff, and some people don't. I believe it's worth it, even if some people might hurt others' feelings.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by rjbwork »

devwastaken wrote: post #72
WhyNotHugo wrote: post #18

YouTube has been changing in weird ways in the last year or so. The amount of propaganda on the platform is ridiculous, though very frequently disguised as "news" or "educational". As someone who's been around quite a bit, I can also imagine that it doesn't look like propaganda to average Americans (I'd be glad to be wrong on this). A great deal of content is just plain sophistry too. Inspecting comments, it seems th…

Watch one "conservative news" video and it will do a complete 180. Ads for "rations", "preparing for the end of the world", "how to be self sustainable", tons of PragerU propaganda, and some of the most low quality l BS you'll ever see from political ads. YouTube delivers content based on what you've watched.

I watch a lot of lefty "news" and infotainment. I still get ads for the conservative propaganda, survival rations, prepping, etc. I think it's because I also watch a lot of firearms hobby content.

Kinda silly, but it does make me chuckle that people like Ben Shapiro, PragerU, and 4Patriots are subsidizing my lefty youtube subscriptions.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

gruez wrote: post #50
cbradford wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For over 100 years we have had laws and rules that prescribe that when a firm or industry reaches monopoly statue they must act as a common carrier and not discriminate. Been that way since telephones and railroads. People should understand history, this is not a new challenge and the solutions are already on the books. https://blog.scorchedweb.com/technology/supreme-court-on-con...

>For over 100 years we have had laws and rules that prescribe that when a firm or industry reaches monopoly statue they must act as a common carrier and not discriminate. Was that because they got big, or was it because they were granted a government monopoly?

> Was that because they got big, or was it because they were granted a government monopoly?

Got big.

But why would it matter? Govs suck at accountability, I wouldn’t expect that to factor in now.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by flavius29663 »

betwixthewires wrote: post #96
lolinder wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I live in a red state and my experience is the opposite. I suspect it might be that when your view is the majority in your area, you're more inclined to shut out opposing ideas as "fringe". It's the "I don't know anyone who voted ___" effect.

I think this phenomenon is the result of a confirmation bias. Half of all people are below average intelligence, so if you live in a majority democrat region most of the stupid people are going to be democrats the same for majority republican regions. Add to that the social friction with going against the herd, the friction must be worthwhile to the person so it is more likely a lot of thought went into someone's con…

This might be the most reasonable explanation. In the end, the republicans I talked to were very reluctant to hint they vote republican, so in general they would approach issues much more carefully. It still doesn't fully explain the democrat behavior.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by TheRealPomax »

martin_a wrote: post #68
corobo wrote: post #48

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> This makes it highly resistant to censorship We should probably stop using this phrase as a feature Instant thought was "ok so other than this channel it's all racism"

Yeah, sounds like an unregulated place for all the people who were thrown out by those with at least some ethics left. update: yeah, downvotes, whatever... "censorship" these days is often enough because people tell other people to use horse dewormer or drink bleach. It's not because they're having highly sophisticated discussions about global politics, but simply because they're actively harming people, spreading ha…

Not everything's for just the US.
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