YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

Post by acdha » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 2:17 PM UTC

cft wrote: post #167

otrahuevada wrote: post #129

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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.

Post by ThalesX » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 2:24 PM UTC

acdha wrote: post #186

ThalesX wrote: post #67

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I'm not sure why people are calling this satire. If you want to host a video, make it available through a URI, protect your ownership rights and then make sure it gets hosted for as long as possible, this is a way to do it.

The key is knowing enough about the technology to know that none of that works. IPFS doesn’t solve the storage or bandwidth problems people use YouTube to avoid, so you’re still going to need to pay for hosting, which could be done cheaper without the blockchain overhead. Similarly, an NFT doesn’t prevent everyone from accessing it so you can’t force people to pay for the cost of their access and it doesn’t protect y…

Post by smcl » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 2:25 PM UTC

you-liquidated wrote: post #174

bluecatswim wrote: post #168

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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.

I pay for my mobile phone service. They still sell my location data. I pay for my TV. It still spies on me. And so on... You are always the product, paying customer or not.

Post by temp8964 » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 2:27 PM UTC

bambax wrote: 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.

Post by marc_io » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 2:28 PM UTC

dorfsmay wrote: post #128

sebow wrote: post #60

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Or maybe just use another hosting platform.There are at least 5 good reliable choices that are not from "FAANG"-tier platforms.

Which ones beside Vimeo?