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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

oblio wrote: post #110
martin_a wrote: post #70

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> where they don’t have enough pull to bootstrap an alternative Maybe I'm thinking too easy, but what about self-hosting. Some "all inclusive" hosting with Hugo or whatever static page builder you like. That should be enough to get your content out to the masses. Throw in Disqus if you really need to, set up an RSS feed and a newsletter and let's go.

Congratulations! You've solved the easiest part. Now get back to us in 5 years, when you'll have managed to build a comparable audience just by using SEO.

Wait. Is building an audience using SEO supposed to be a good thing or a bad thing?

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Post by a_c »

throwaway316943 wrote: post #146
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"

> If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. >…the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, st…

Much debate in the society stems from unfalsifiability

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by mattl »

enriquto wrote: post #32
mcjiggerlog wrote: post #17

The Linux Experiment is probably my favourite linux-focussed YouTube channel. Nick has been doing absolutely fantastic work and his channel being permanently deleted would be an absolute travesty and a clear mistake. He is producing high quality, thoughtful, inoffensive content. Here's to hoping the channel is rightly reinstated ASAP, along with an apology and explanation from Google. Also, if you don't know the chan…

> Here's to hoping the channel is rightly reinstated ASAP I for one am not looking forward to this. Youtube is no longer an acceptable platform for distributing your videos. If a person who makes good videos is forced out of youtube, that can only be a good thing. Hopefully their videos will help make another service more popular. Youtube terms of service are public and unacceptable. People who get burned by them had…

YouTube is fairly ubiquitous in terms of support on hardware players. Any alternative would need to be similar. Vimeo perhaps?

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Post by ipaddr »

betwixthewires wrote: post #115
martin_a wrote: post #106

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No! These networks, no matter how they work under the hood, are obviously the problem, as they are single points of failure. Run your own stuff. Most channels will not have enough visitors/viewers to kill a shared webhosting package, so there's no big deal in doing this on your own.

Peertube is tube site software that you can run yourself. It is a way to run your own stuff. https://joinpeertube.org/

Curious how does the network deal with adult or censored content? If self-hosting does one need to join the network?

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by [deleted] »

vorpalhex wrote: post #154
slightwinder wrote: post #140

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To be fair, the bans usually were about china fabricating the virus on purpose and releasing it with intention, accompanied by racism against Asians. This is pretty different from the accidental leak of a research-object, which is now the accepted theory.

The media did themselves and the public a disservice by gluing the two theories together and blending them. Several friends - college educated, intelligent professionals - were confused enough to approach and ask me about the lab leak/release theories. The intentional lab release theory is the stuff of nonsense conspiracy theories. The accidental leak theory has always had some support but is now more widely accepted…

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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by lelanthran »

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

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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"

>> 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"

If you want to be in a place where only approved thoughts are allowed, there's plenty of places in the world and on the net that would accommodate you right now.

No need to turn every place into an arm of Mini-truth.

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Post by concordDance »

tedivm wrote: post #93
RegnisGnaw wrote: post #88

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The choice of "content neutrality" is pretty much keyword also for: 1. constantly reeling from one public backlash after the other 2. advertising dropping you due to controversial content 3. government coming after you for controversial content If I were a business, I'd go content moderation all the way. Less blow black and more steady income.

Most of these platforms start off trying to be content neutral and end up adding more moderation as a result of how badly it ends up hurting them. There's only so many times advertisers are willing to have their brand shown next to child pornography (ie, reddit's former /r/jailbait) or hate speech. If complete neutrality was an answer these companies would be doing that, since it's the cheapest option.

I greatly dislike the conflation of things like jailbait (which is mostly provocative clothed images taken voluntarily by teens) and classic child pornography where a 6 year old is brutally raped.

One is harmless the other involves lifelong trauma.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by causi »

throwaway316943 wrote: post #146
corobo wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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"

> If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. >…the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, st…

Everyone always seems happy to carve out their own exceptions to freedom of expression. Freedom, except for racism. Freedom, except for transgenderism. Freedom, except for porn. Freedom, except for violence. Freedom, except for political dissent or mis-gendering or the promotion or criticism of a religion.

As someone who falls near the middle on most issues I probably detest a larger percentage of speakers than anyone who's solidly on the Left or the Right, but I have no issue understanding that my freedom depends on their freedom. If the people I despise are not free to speak then neither am I.

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Post by only_as_i_fall »

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…

I feel we pretty badly need to revisit laws surrounding social media platforms in the US. I'm not sure what the silver bullet is here, but the way platforms have almost limitless latitude to filter and shape discourse on their platform and also virtually zero liability for that same discourse seems like an obvious problem.

Unfortunately the average senator is over 60 and the companies that own these platforms have deep pockets.

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it." -Upton Sinclair

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