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YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Re: YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Post by kunagi7 »

That's why I archive my favorite videos with tools like youtube-dl. Their automated systems, censorship mechanisms, user reports (even if they're fake), even the "fact checkers" ask and remove videos without a real reason. If the account is still active the owner can start an appeal process that rarely works.

Most of the times no appeal is done and the video is lost until someone risks his account and reuploads it again.

Never trust an online website to keep your content up for you. Always back it up since it can be removed anytime and without asking.

Re: YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Post by theandrewbailey »

revolvingocelot wrote: post #4

This is truly wrong. Far from censorship, this is a field test of memory-holing. Deleting a part of the history of the Internet (yes, this silly little nonsense video is now part of Modern Culture) is a Rubicon I'm shocked YouTube has the temerity to cross. I can't wait to see what more conventional history they'll delete. For now, note the conscious blowing-off, on YouTube's part, of all the re-uploads. Will they al…

Not just history of the internet: Youtube takes down videos of war crimes. Destroying or covering up evidence of war crimes is, itself, a war crime. I'm surprised that Youtube isn't in hot water over that.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170812/01102937985/once-...

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/youtube-ai-deletes-war-cr...

Re: YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Post by marcus_holmes »

jordemort wrote: post #5

At this point, Google is pretty much the fae folk of tech: immensely powerful beings with inscrutable motives and mercurial dispositions, inclined to rain ruin on your head at the slightest provocation or even just on a whim. Best to leave a saucer of milk out for them at night, and studiously avoid the areas they control if you value your anything.

Headcanon accepted. The fae are notoriously afraid of iron, and harmed by merely touching it. What's the equivalent for Google?

Re: YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Post by theandrewbailey »

aluminussoma wrote: post #15
fennecfoxen wrote: post #8

Here is my open letter to people working for Google: Dear googlers: Quit. You’ll make plenty elsewhere; just stop ruining the Internet please.

Don't quit! I'd rather have good, honest people working at Google, instead of them quitting Google. What would Google be like if no good people worked there?

Without good people, Google will be driven into the ground faster, and all of us can move on sooner.

Re: YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Post by jwmhjwmh »

revolvingocelot wrote: post #18
BiteCode_dev wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are confusing Youtube with a NGO. Google is a for profit company. Their mission is to make money, not to archive the internet. They are not your friend. Nor anybody's friend.

See, I'd have thought that everybody tacitly understood that YouTube's scale has redefined presentation of videos over the Internet and as a consequence is the premier video archive for all of Humanity. This doesn't erase their fiduciary duties, but it does attenuate them -- archiving and presenting videos (to show ads) is actually how the money is made. But I'll bite -- I'm a credulous idiot who's confused YouTube f…

> So how did deleting this make YouTube money?

I assume they remove "violent" videos to appease advertisers. In this case, they did not consider the value of the video being removed, instead prioritizing the safety of the content with respect to the advertisers.

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Post by DevX101 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #23
jordemort wrote: post #5

At this point, Google is pretty much the fae folk of tech: immensely powerful beings with inscrutable motives and mercurial dispositions, inclined to rain ruin on your head at the slightest provocation or even just on a whim. Best to leave a saucer of milk out for them at night, and studiously avoid the areas they control if you value your anything.

Headcanon accepted. The fae are notoriously afraid of iron, and harmed by merely touching it. What's the equivalent for Google?

Congressional hearings?

Re: YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Post by dariusj18 »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #23
jordemort wrote: post #5

At this point, Google is pretty much the fae folk of tech: immensely powerful beings with inscrutable motives and mercurial dispositions, inclined to rain ruin on your head at the slightest provocation or even just on a whim. Best to leave a saucer of milk out for them at night, and studiously avoid the areas they control if you value your anything.

Headcanon accepted. The fae are notoriously afraid of iron, and harmed by merely touching it. What's the equivalent for Google?

Magnets?

Re: YouTube removes “I Can't Believe You've Done This” video from 2007

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Post by romanhn »

mentos wrote: post #11

Reminds me of a scene 'Killed for Reading' from the movie Equilibrium. Partridge: Don't you see, Preston? It's gone. Everything that makes us what we are, traded away. John Preston: There's no war. No murder. Partridge: What is it you think we do? John Preston: No. You've been with me. You've seen how it can be, the jealousy. Rage. Partridge: A heavy cost. I pay it gladly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJf9Pf9rjO4

And into the rabbit hole of gun kata scenes I go. Equilibrium is such an underappreciated movie.
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