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Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

#161
I said it before and I will say it again. [0] YouTube does not care about you or small creators and are moderating content like the big media companies who are now on the platform.

It is only going to get worse and YouTube will NEVER change.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29439417

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

#162
Has anyone attempted to sue Google in small claims? For smaller annoyances like losing access to email and/or having a video removed this seems like it might be an option to increase the cost of improper take-downs? That said, not a lawyer and Google probably has a strong case around being a private platform with sole authority to remove content.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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post #41

The problem is not the content of the video, crypto or not. The problem is not that YT moderates aggressively (it doesn't do enough IMHO) or even how it moderates. The problem is that there is no serious appeals process, and no third party oversight of moderation decisions. This is true for all the big platforms. How do we fix that, IDK, but probably at the government level.

There can’t be any semblance of an appeals process whilst the law treats social media platforms like privately owned property that you have the privilege of being a guest too.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

#164
post #41

The problem is not the content of the video, crypto or not. The problem is not that YT moderates aggressively (it doesn't do enough IMHO) or even how it moderates. The problem is that there is no serious appeals process, and no third party oversight of moderation decisions. This is true for all the big platforms. How do we fix that, IDK, but probably at the government level.

It could be remunerated. Like: pay 100$ to have a human look at your case. You can appeal (and pay) up to 3 times. This would partially solve the scalability problem + provide partial disincentives for scammers and spammers. I would happily pay 100$ to recover my lost Google account. Of course this would in turn create the bad incentive of having Google not create good models. Ideally the law would require to cap pri…

That's a good idea but I can also see it backfiring. "Oops your account got locked by our algo, better cough up some dough so we can take a look at it..."

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

#165

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I can't tell if this is satire.

There's an opportunity here. Put the video on both YouTube and a blockchain, make it easy to find on the latter via the YouTube URI, then when one discovers a non-working link you YouTube you can pivot to the blockchain-based backup. Once enough people know about this hack it then, with a browser plug-in, censorship be gone! This is obviously off-the-cuff, undetailed thinking here, but an approach like this might mak…

You can’t store a video on the blockchain. How incredibly bad of a design would that be! The ledger is shared. People typically mint the hyperlink as an NFT.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

#167
post #41

The problem is not the content of the video, crypto or not. The problem is not that YT moderates aggressively (it doesn't do enough IMHO) or even how it moderates. The problem is that there is no serious appeals process, and no third party oversight of moderation decisions. This is true for all the big platforms. How do we fix that, IDK, but probably at the government level.

Google famously sucks at customer service, mostly because they've figured that they'd have to pay a moderation team more money than whatever they'll lose from the few and far between problem cases there might be. There is no fixing that without massive corporate reorganization, which won't be voluntary, and thus will take 10x the time with worse results. At this point this is just the Google way to do things, and mak…

The problem is their monopoly power over video distribution on the internet: disgruntled users have nowhere else to go. All alternatives are stifled by the monopoly.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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post #65

> I am a paid Youtube Music subscriber The saying goes that if you don't paid for it then you are the product. So I subscribed to YouTube Music family plan, thinking I won't be the product. But my wife's account will always return an error saying that she is in a different country or something. I tried to reach the support for help but never got any reply. In the end I cancelled the subscription. Google is simply too…

> The saying goes that if you don't paid for it then you are the product. So true. This is why I switched from free Linux to paid Mac, and why I've started replacing open-source apps with commercial ones.

That saying is meant for commercialized products obviously. But it's still kind of true if you stretch it to FOSS software, the allegory would be that you pay for it with your time (by fixing/bringing attention to bugs) rather than directly profiting the devs.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

#169
post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they're a business, and that's how businesses are run?

So ignoring your customers after they've paid you money is something we should just throw into the bin of "that's just business, folks"?

As cliche as it sounds, YouTube creators are not the customer, the advertisers are.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

#170
post #3

Why are you using legacy centralized web 2.0 platforms ruled by fiat money? Put your video on IPFS, give it an ens.domain, mint an NFT for it. With an eth filecoin bridge it will fund its own censorship-resistance forever. That tech is great and has obsoleted web 2.0. Don't trust Google, self-govern!

I can't tell if this is satire.

Poe's law
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