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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

bitL wrote: post #224
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.

Can you self-host it like PeerTube?

there is something called tilvids.com that hosts educational as well as edutainment content. a good fit for the linuxexperiment. either that or do like videos.lukesmith.xyz and build your own. It is really not difficult or does not cost a fortune

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by mcguire »

WillPostForFood wrote: post #225
mcguire wrote: post #196

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What happens if nobody listens to your proofs? What happens if they prefer the lie?

What if only one truth is allowed, and it is wrong or a lie? You are putting all your eggs in one basket.

Marx was almost right: "Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce."

Postmodernism, the first time around, was the comedy.

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Post by tick_tock_tick »

BizarroLand wrote: post #260
causi wrote: post #169

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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 anyon…

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. It stands to reason then that if all speech is truly free eventually some speech will be censored. America doesn't allow people to say "Fuck" on public TV broadcasts, therefore all speech isn't free. No one is harmed by a curse word. Worst case a child will learn…

Go and actually read Popper and you'll find he was close to a free speak maximalist his views on when you shouldn't "tolerate" intolerance was an incredibly high bar that almost nothing ever hits.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by dmantis »

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…

US guy detected. Go travel to Russia, China, Middle East and other funny countries, you would find a lot of interesting things which you can be jailed for, not just banned by gov request on social media platform.

If you talk about international platforms, you should kinda think about that.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by [deleted] »

juniperplant wrote: post #185
EastToWest wrote: post #125

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

There was a giveaway of a Tuxedo laptop[1]. Whoever wanted to participate had to comment on the video announcing the giveaway, which apparently goes against YouTube's TOS (as far as I can tell comments count affects YouTube's algorithm). [1] https://odysee.com/@TheLinuxExperiment:e/win-the-tuxedo-aura...

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Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by Teknoman117 »

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!

That doesn't make much sense though, given that many of the tech YouTubers (LinusTechTips, JayzTwoCents, to name a few) have done hardware giveaways fairly regularly. "We're giving away RTX 3080s and 3090s to verifiable gamers" is the recent trend. LTT is in Vancouver, but JayzTwoCents is in Southern California somewhere, and therefore, the United States.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by sschueller »

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!

If this is true there are several very large youtubers that are running illegal sweepstakes. Jake and Logan Paul for example.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by BizarroLand »

tick_tock_tick wrote: post #274
BizarroLand wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The paradox of tolerance states that if a society is tolerant without limit, its ability to be tolerant is eventually seized or destroyed by the intolerant. It stands to reason then that if all speech is truly free eventually some speech will be censored. America doesn't allow people to say "Fuck" on public TV broadcasts, therefore all speech isn't free. No one is harmed by a curse word. Worst case a child will learn…

Go and actually read Popper and you'll find he was close to a free speak maximalist his views on when you shouldn't "tolerate" intolerance was an incredibly high bar that almost nothing ever hits.

So, I should read 25 books to verify that your one sentence claim is valid?

Why not back that up with some relevant quotes to support your thesis, friend? That seems a decent thing to do compared to the litany of homework you callously threw at me.

Re: The Linux Experiments YouTube channel has been terminated

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

amelius wrote: post #60
enriquto wrote: post #32

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> 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 should be forced to allow "Watch this video on $COMPETING_SERVICE" links.

AIUI creators can post links or to other services? So you can link Patreon, or link Twitch or what-have-you, and people can then find your content elsewhere.

Presumably, it's better financially for big channels to keep users on YouTube.

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