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While I definitely do sympathize, these might be alarm bells telling that we've given too much to these faceless corps. Maybe it's time to reimagine content sharing that has full uncensorable control of the creator and reach of today's centralized platforms, with a fair way to monetize.
While I definitely do sympathize, these might be alarm bells telling that we've given too much to these faceless corps. Maybe it's time to reimagine content sharing that has full uncensorable control of the creator and reach of today's centralized platforms, with a fair way to monetize.
Yup. Make Youtube a "common carrier" or something similar.
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/26/this-is-really-really-du...
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/23/11th-circuit-disagrees-w...
https://www.techdirt.com/2021/06/08/conservatives-want-commo...
Something should be done to ward off the Kafkaesque future we are heading for, but declaring websites as common carriers is a poor way to do it.
Yup. Make Youtube a "common carrier" or something similar.
If I'm understanding the attack correctly, its surprising there is not more along these lines - specifically the "trigger big tech company's automate banning against someone" attack. It wouldn't be surprising if this is fairly easy across a variety of "services"
It's been done as a trolling technique for ages.
To spare everyone the confusion, the author was extorted, not blackmailed. "Any YouTuber" isn't vulnerable to blackmail unless the bad actor has specific compromising information about the YouTuber to threaten with.
Any youtuber that uploads comment/react/compilation/commentary videos are good targets. This is not a new thing. It's been going on for at least 4-5 years if not more. Blackmail is also a thing. "take down video x or I'll strike your account" and such.
That's still not blackmail. Blackmail is when you threaten to divulge information about someone unless they pay you.
What exactly are they doing to take down the videos?
If I'm understanding the attack correctly, its surprising there is not more along these lines - specifically the "trigger big tech company's automate banning against someone" attack. It wouldn't be surprising if this is fairly easy across a variety of "services"
It's been done as a trolling technique for ages.
I released Boltstream [0] for exactly this kind of thing. It's not a Youtube replacement. It's a self-hosted replacement for Youtube Live, Facebook Live, Twitch.tv, and alike. [0] https://github.com/benwilber/boltstream
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