YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

Post by rvnx » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 4:58 PM UTC

pwned1 wrote: post #285

thijser wrote: post #258

Update: 3 hours after posting and being on the hacker news front page: Automated email out of the blue: "We’re pleased to let you know that we’ve recently reviewed your YouTube account, and after taking another look, we can confirm that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service. We have lifted the suspension of your account, and it is once again active and operational." Thanks hacker news for voting this up and…

You're lucky you got some attention. I had google kill my adsense account, which I've had for 10 years+, because I logged in to another google business account of mine with the same phone number I used on my adsense account. They declared that I tried to create duplicate accounts. Account killed. Appeal? Yeah right, that was denied too. No possibility of talking to a human being to explain the simplicity of the issue…

Post by duxup » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

mcast wrote: post #269

thijser wrote: post #258

Update: 3 hours after posting and being on the hacker news front page: Automated email out of the blue: "We’re pleased to let you know that we’ve recently reviewed your YouTube account, and after taking another look, we can confirm that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service. We have lifted the suspension of your account, and it is once again active and operational." Thanks hacker news for voting this up and…

It’s funny how Google’s automated system will flag a small video like yours but I see tons of crypto scams on SpaceX imposter live feeds with thousands of viewers

Post by adamdonahue » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:14 PM UTC

sharklazer wrote: post #165

adamdonahue wrote: post #117

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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.

Post by whimsicalism » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:16 PM UTC

gwerbret wrote: post #283

Presumably, many Googlers who are directly involved in designing and implementing content moderation are active readers of Hacker News, as is evidenced by the fact that having a story hit the front page is an effective way to solve problems like these. But what I never see is any of those Googlers taking the time to explain why they feel these seemingly-broken approaches are the only ways to solve the problem of mode…

Post by ghaff » Mon, Dec 06, 2021, 5:19 PM UTC

throw10920 wrote: post #299

eldaisfish wrote: post #248

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to be seen by whom? I'm pretty tech savvy and have heard of none of these. Not a single one.

I've heard of all of those - mostly through my friends. However, as to your larger point - you're right, most people don't know about these. I would argue that those who want to escape Google's grasp should be willing to encourage person-to-person sharing as an alternative to the recommendation algorithm . Sure, 99.99% of the population isn't browsing PeerTube, but I bet you that most of them would be willing to watc…