It's quite possible that it was a politically motivated complaint. We'd never know.
Absolutely a politically motivated attack.
YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
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Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#202Looks like youtube account has been restored. Update from the medium article: >> UPDATE: We’re back as of 8:39pm EDT April 11, 2020! I received the following email from YouTube: Hi there, After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have unsuspended your account. This means your account is once again active and operational. If you…
No apologies?
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Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#203Looks like youtube account has been restored. Update from the medium article: >> UPDATE: We’re back as of 8:39pm EDT April 11, 2020! I received the following email from YouTube: Hi there, After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have unsuspended your account. This means your account is once again active and operational. If you…
No apologies?
Please lets not start this. Apologies means nothing, especially coming from companies.
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
Again not speaking for Google and only speculating without any inside information on the details of this subject, but: If Google didn’t exist because only customer-paid business models were permitted for the services they provide, you would be cutting the vast majority of humanity off from essential communications and information services, and they would only be available to the wealthiest people in the wealthiest na…
This is what I try to point out every time someone tries to say that ad-based revenue models should be made illegal because of various reasons. It is ignoring how useful and accessible ad-supported web products are to pretty much anyone that isn't living in a first world country having easy access to credit cards. As someone that has grown up in a second world country, barely having any money to pay for food in colle…
The people who can’t pay tend to be pretty low-value to google anyway when it comes to advertising. If they had to, they would quickly find a way to charge a very little amount to those people if advertising had to go away (e.g. agreement to charge cell carrier).
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#205Self-regulation has failed. YouTube, and others, failures to employ proper content moderation is hitting both consumers and creators. This market is broken
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#206Earlier quoted context omitted.
But how long would it take for a human to look into an issue and apply human logic instead of the algorithm. 10 minutes? Also, what percentage of users actually need or request support? Everyone pays in, but very few use the service.
Subtract all the costs of video hosting and development etc and you are left with almost nothing.
References please. ;)
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
It used to be much harder to knock someone you didn't like offline. You used to have to organize a DDOS attack. But now, all you have to do is organize a much easier mass-flagging attack. We need to update our threat models to account for how unreliable major platforms have become. We can no longer rely on these companies. After big tech spent so much time investing in their own infrastructure, they are undermining t…
> Instead, you have to span [your content] on multiple platforms and tell your audience where to find you if you get deleted. OK, so what's the safest holdout?
Mu.[1]
The principle of "spread across multiple platforms" is fundamentally inconsistent with a "safest holdout".
You need to hedge your bets.
You need to realise that free services can be discontinued, paid contracts can be terminated, content or accounts can be flagged, copyright or patent claims may be asserted (more the former than the latter, generally, but expect patent claims on more capable systems), domains may be hijacked or squatted, and self-hosted systems may be DDoSed, require ongoing maintenance, moderation (if user / third-party content is permitted), etc.
POSSE -- Publish on your own site, syndicate elsewhere -- is probable the most robust option overall.
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Notes:
1. A Japanese word, often translated as "unask the question". https://www.awakin.org/read/view.php?tid=583
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
It used to be much harder to knock someone you didn't like offline. You used to have to organize a DDOS attack. But now, all you have to do is organize a much easier mass-flagging attack. We need to update our threat models to account for how unreliable major platforms have become. We can no longer rely on these companies. After big tech spent so much time investing in their own infrastructure, they are undermining t…
We also need to update our definition of freedom of speech. It's commonly repeated on the Internet that freedom of speech doesn't cover private platforms. That's true because in 1791, when the First Amendment was written, only the government could impact individual freedom of speech. But now large companies can do it very effectively because they own the platforms everyone is using. Sure, you can still express yourse…
The principle of common carriers, over which all (lawful) conduct is permitted, including postal, telegraph, and telephone services, as well as equal-time and community-access broadcast services, offer alternate models.
I'm finding the "private platform, no free-speech rights" argument increasingly thin on platforms aggreggating hundreds of millions or billions of eyes and ears, and increasingly inextricably bound to social, commercial, and governmental institutions and activities. At the same time, the wild west alternative has also proved untenable, with strong civil-rights groups including EFF and ACLU increasingly acknowledging and accommodating this reality.
There's a middle way.
Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account
#210Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not for now. My idea here is that we need to formalize this relationship and regulate it. YouTubers aren't Google employees but they are still extremely valuable to Google only in a very one sided relationship.
Youtube was net negative for a long time, it is a model which is very hard to get profitable. If they were forced to spend more likely they would just shut down the service or force you to pay fees.
If a service cannot be offered both responsibly and profitably, perhaps it shouldn't be allowed to exist?