Tech titans have too much arbitrary power.
Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
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Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#12This happens all the time in Google Play, how do you protect against random take downs? You have several copies of your dev account or channel. That's it, you become a spammer to defend against the bot that "protects" us from spammers.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#13My channel suffered the same fate. I had a few original songs on it and a few original videos on it. Never got a warning or copyright strike or any sort of notice. Just boom shut down.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#14The title on HN needs to be updated. Right now it says "YouTube shut down 15 years old audio developer's channel for "reasons"" It can be read as saying the age of the person is 15 years old. But the developer said they had the channel for 15 years, not that they are 15 years old: "How they are willing to insanely shut down a 15-year-old channel with not a single issue on record, without any warning or question, is b…
Done. I had the same issues with it myself when I initially wrote it, but couldn't think of a better wording at the time. Hopefully it's less confusing now.
"Audio developer's fifteen-year-old channel" would do it.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#15a computer can never be held accountable — therefore a computer must never make a management decision
That's a really fascinating, but horrible, point.
Every AI decision becomes a way to shirk responsibility, even more than just automated ones (because then its "your" rule).
Welcome to the brave new world of AI-decision laundering.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#16a computer can never be held accountable — therefore a computer must never make a management decision
Unless of course you don’t care about accountability.
This gives google a lot of “oops, the system did it” leeway.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#17I am sure this will end up all well in the end for the channel. I also get it why you can't have anything but automated filtering as a first pass on the volume youtube deals, it's absolutely understandable. This, however, might be a learning on youtube's end to include "if filter returns that this channel is literally hitler, but channel is also >xy years old or >subs or >views take it at least for a human consideration before inconvenience". Ultimately it won't render anything new to youtube as a platform, they'll still have to deal with automated and then human appeal process, but at least it will gain some confidence to content creators that the broom isn't all that thick.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#18Mistake? Haha, we don't make mistakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzFmPFLIH5s
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#19Hope your story bubbles up enough to get real support from Google.
Re: Our channel on YouTube has been deleted due to “spam and deceptive policies”
#20This happens all the time in Google Play, how do you protect against random take downs? You have several copies of your dev account or channel. That's it, you become a spammer to defend against the bot that "protects" us from spammers.
How does that even work on YouTube? You publish each video to every backup channel? You'd still lose followers and views surely.