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Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by chrshawkes »

nudpiedo wrote: post #49

Not anymore a conspiracy theory. This is the actual big brother modeling our futures, a group of people powerful enough, with their own interests and their own agenda with access to most peoples minds/lives, and who already publicly explained how they plan to influence on global geopolitics and society building. I find it disturbing this level of censorship. At first, it was pedophiles, murders and violent criminal a…

As a YouTuber with 125k subscribers, it's stuff like this that makes me look forward to quitting one day (it does pay bills). YouTube won't be able to keep creators like me around at this rate. You can add this to a very long list of bad decisions by YouTube. It's almost second nature for them at this point. They need at least one competitor and there are none.

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by intopieces »

insickness wrote: post #86
rubicon33 wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could definitely get behind your point if the subject were the government. It's not, though I understand the sentiment is the same. At the end of the day YouTube is a private company. Yea, a very big one with huge reach, but private nonetheless. Taking a subjective moral position is something companies have been doing for a long time. If you disagree with them, don't give them your $ (don't use youtube).

Marsh v. Alabama, 326 U.S. 501 (1946), was a case decided by the United States Supreme Court, in which it ruled that a state trespassing statute could not be used to prevent the distribution of religious materials on a town's sidewalk, even though the sidewalk was part of a privately owned company town. The Court based its ruling on the provisions of the First Amendment and Fourteenth Amendment. https://en.wikipedia.…

The correlation between the digital town square and the physical one is often cited but tenuous at best.

Other video streaming sites exist. Moving to them is a click away - no need to pack up your family and put a deposit down.

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by rolltiide »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #64

Or thinkspot becomes the youtube killer and we all continue on https://www.ts.today/ edit: I have no idea how thinkspot is going to play out. But if I know one thing about the internet it's that it's really hard to stop people from using it however they please. Attempts to squash mostly just result a shift of where it occurs, not the fact that it occurs.

honestly people have just been uploading to pornhub and similar sites. they have practically no content restrictions.

the meme has been to add pornographic industry titles to benign non sexual videos. that part is just for fun and views

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by bredren »

I wonder why YouTube has to be the go-to source for useful video in the first place. Seems steps like this drive important content to other, hopefully more privacy-conscious platforms.

This is a bigger loss for YouTube than the security community.

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by munk-a »

rubicon33 wrote: post #79
nudpiedo wrote: post #49

Not anymore a conspiracy theory. This is the actual big brother modeling our futures, a group of people powerful enough, with their own interests and their own agenda with access to most peoples minds/lives, and who already publicly explained how they plan to influence on global geopolitics and society building. I find it disturbing this level of censorship. At first, it was pedophiles, murders and violent criminal a…

I could definitely get behind your point if the subject were the government. It's not, though I understand the sentiment is the same. At the end of the day YouTube is a private company. Yea, a very big one with huge reach, but private nonetheless. Taking a subjective moral position is something companies have been doing for a long time. If you disagree with them, don't give them your $ (don't use youtube).

The US is weird in that a lot of commonly expected services aren't supplied by the government, if there was a wewillhostyourvideos.gov site out there then I'd definitely agree with you - I still _mostly_ agree with you since youtube now has semi-legitimate competition from vimeo - vimeo fails hard as a browsing platform but is fine as a place to host your video.

This sort of censorship by a private company is only acceptable if there is a legitimate other path to post videos (still within the realm of ethically decided censorship) - if the government has a presence in a market we demand that the government be the most lax player when it comes to issues of freedom of speech, but I think we're fine as long as there exist places in which to practice our free speech.

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by jerf »

tartrate wrote: post #78
nudpiedo wrote: post #49

Not anymore a conspiracy theory. This is the actual big brother modeling our futures, a group of people powerful enough, with their own interests and their own agenda with access to most peoples minds/lives, and who already publicly explained how they plan to influence on global geopolitics and society building. I find it disturbing this level of censorship. At first, it was pedophiles, murders and violent criminal a…

sooner than later they will change their definition of morality and we all gonna pay with our freedom Just wanted to point out that I found this to be a powerful quote. Well said.

It's sooner. If you dig it's not hard to find videos of highly-placed employees of these companies talking about how they plan on manipulating future elections. It goes far beyond anything that Russia has even been accused of doing in the past three years, but it's the "right people" saying it, so it's not a scandal.

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by danShumway »

simlevesque wrote: post #99
danShumway wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not going to be able to take a look for a few days, but I'd be grateful if someone made sure that most of the Defcon talks were archived or mirrored somewhere.

https://media.defcon.org/ https://media.ccc.de/

Thanks, didn't realize these existed.

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by oasisbob »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #76
ryanmercer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about banning something because it leads to illegal activity, however I do see why they ban some content. I'm Pro 2a but YouTube was demonetizing, and even removing some, many firearm videos 1-2 years ago and it had everyone in the firearm community in an uproar and the people screaming the most were the uploaders that had videos along the lines of: "what happens if I shoot a barbie doll with a 50 cal" "…

> Like, you aren't teaching people how to safely shoot or reviewing firearms, you're doing stupid stuff that is extremely dangerous and absolutely should not be replicated by viewers at home. I agree. We should only publish videos of things that are safe for viewers to replicate.

I'm afraid this comment may fall afoul of Poe's law - but I think I agree.

In my elementary school, That Favorite Science Teacher made gunpowder as an in-class demonstration, as well as hydrogen balloons.

Should that content be allowed on YouTube? There are plenty of college-level chemistry demonstrations which have serious safety concerns; if not in the performance, then in the safe and ethical disposal.

Cody's views on elemental mercury being vilified push me over the edge to wanting that type of speech protected on the platform, lest fears of dihydrogen monoxide rule.

Re: YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

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Post by akvadrako »

lghh wrote: post #28
sarcasmatwork wrote: post #7

Youtube updating its policy to ban videos they have already monetized from, while the creators get nothing. Youtube is a monopoly. Creators need to get off YT, and onto something else if it exists.

> if it exists. It doesn't.

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