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

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Post by ryanmercer »

Zak wrote: post #120
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" "…

> what happens if I microwave a full ak mag I seem to recall Mythbusters baking a loaded .44 Magnum in an oven, and that was on corporate broadcast TV. I can't speak for the average person, but if I find myself curious about the results of something obviously dangerous, I like to look up a video of someone else doing it so I can find out with no risk. I don't find myself wanting to replicate dangerous experiments onc…

>I seem to recall Mythbusters baking a loaded .44 Magnum in an oven, and that was on corporate broadcast TV.

If this did happen in an episode they likely had firefighters and EMTs on hand, an entire safety crew, ballistic glass and/or a proper bunker, etc.

Demolition Ranch though... he's a veterinarian that had a microwave in his field in Texas with some cinder blocks around the sides. Likely with one other person on hand in case he injured himself.

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Post by zcid »

jquery wrote: post #166
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…

EDIT: Removing my uncivil post. I'm happy to see your well-articulated post at the top.

Or maybe instead of this being a conspiracy of brigades, more people are waking up the dangers of too much control in the hands of a few powerful people?

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

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Post by manjana »

oconnor663 wrote: post #145

Devil's advocate: There's a very thin line between e.g. the Lockpicking Lawyer doing reviews of different padlock brands and e.g. an instructional video about how to break into someone's house. YouTube knows that if someone posts home invasion instructions, and then someone else watches those instructions and commits a crime, the news media will absolutely 100% blame YouTube, and politicians will jump on them to scor…

So sad. Some of these channels like e.g. BosnianBill, LockpickingLawyer, HelpfulLockpicker have immense amounts of unique content that are properly even less likely to be backed up somewhere and will most likely be lost for good.

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

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Post by nudpiedo »

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).

When they have more influence and impact on citizens than governments, perhaps we should revisit our definition of what "public" means. They can close businesses, make disappear the reach of specific competitors and do all sorts of things that governments cannot do because they agreed with their respective societies to limit their own power after thousands of years of history.

Right now the only part in which are they private is that they were founded by private capital.

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Post by chrisco255 »

weaksauce wrote: post #152
jjulius wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you cite your sources?

If they are talking about the project veritas video from supposed googlers... yeah, project veritas has been thouroughly discredited for a long time now.

No more so than CNN.

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Post by ravenstine »

jrockway wrote: post #67
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 don't think anyone is stopping you from putting your hacking video on your own website and letting users download it. That would be censorship. This is merely an aggregator/community that doesn't want to pay to distribute your content. So pay someone else!

That is until your web host decides to play by the same game, or is scared into doing so by activist mobs.

Even if you do host your own videos, good luck getting anywhere near the same amount of traffic that you'd get by hosting it on a site like YouTube.

I suppose the next answer would be to host on one's own servers. Well, great. Up until the ISP, domain registrar, or payment processor decides it doesn't like what you're saying and won't even take your money to do so.

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Post by lone_haxx0r »

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.…

That's wrong decision on a fundamental level. If you apply that principle consistently, then property doesn't exist.

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Post by jjoonathan »

belltaco wrote: post #92
stronglikedan wrote: post #51

First they came for the conservative voices...

First they came for the hate, violence and dake news promoting voices that happen be conservative. There is are so many conservative channels that have been untouched.

A bunch of machining-related videos were inside the collateral damage radius of a recent purge.

I only noticed because I was building waveguides at the time and poof, there went the two best gundrill videos on youtube >.There are only a few rural channels in my subscription table but they have all clearly been spooked.

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Post by Invictus0 »

oconnor663 wrote: post #145

Devil's advocate: There's a very thin line between e.g. the Lockpicking Lawyer doing reviews of different padlock brands and e.g. an instructional video about how to break into someone's house. YouTube knows that if someone posts home invasion instructions, and then someone else watches those instructions and commits a crime, the news media will absolutely 100% blame YouTube, and politicians will jump on them to scor…

Do you blame the bookstore if someone reads about lockpicking and then gets arrested for breaking and entering? Or maybe if they read mein Kampf and become a neonazi? Think about how ridiculous this argument is for a minute.
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