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Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by pastacacioepepe »

The fact alone that they are banning "content" (it was just a harmless title and a pic) about private property in this period is not a coincidence.

There was no way to link that title "Boston Basic Income #98: Karl Widerquist on Private Property" to any violation of the law.

I think they are just scared that in this period, talking about private property will bring people to uprise/unite to stop paying rents. YouTube is still part of the capitalist system and will do its part to protect it. And nobody is talking about this kind of censorship.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by rasz »

ekianjo wrote: post #194
lightwin wrote: post #149

Looks 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?

I hope this makes things better https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15HTd4Um1m4

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by freeflight »

zxcvbn4038 wrote: post #129
hpcjoe wrote: post #116

I keep hearing stories about similar issues. Suddenly someone is terminated from a Google service for unknown reasons, without any possibility of reversing such decisions. This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well. From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc. I do make backups of google content every so of…

I think the underlying issue is that Google is under a lot of pressure from the EU and other governing bodies to police its YouTube content, Google being Google is trying to do this with algorithms, unfortunately when the algorithm gets something wrong there is seldom much recourse beyond knowing someone on the inside or being able to raise a big enough stink on Twitter. But this is nothing new, so I think you have t…

It's not just pressure from the EU, a lot of it is also coming from the USG [0], that's why Google, and pretty much any other major US-based social media, have outsourced a lot of content moderation to small armies of shadow-moderators in the Philippines [1]

[0] https://www.npr.org/2018/09/05/644607908/facebook-twitter-he...

[1] https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/327887/pbs-th...

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by freeflight »

username90 wrote: post #182
chii wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how come the revenue google makes in advertising on those videos can't be used to cover the cost of such support? It should not cost money for a user to correct the mistake of a service provider. If the telephone company shutdown my number, i have the telecommunications onbudsman to call and get the problem fixed. Granted, youtube isn't as essential as a phone, a similar body should exist to ensure that online servic…

> It should not cost money for a user to correct the mistake of a service provider. You aren't paying for the service though, the people who buy ads are.

Actually, it's the users/consumers who are paying for it all, with their privacy and by buying products from companies with vast advertisement budgets.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by pastacacioepepe »

pjc50 wrote: post #23

It's quite possible that it was a politically motivated complaint. We'd never know.

It obviously is. People sitting down and calmly discussing private property can only be seen as threatening if you are a capitalist or a landlord. They are scared, given the current crisis. I would be scared too as a capitalist.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by theduder99 »

hosteur wrote: post #195
hpcjoe wrote: post #116

I keep hearing stories about similar issues. Suddenly someone is terminated from a Google service for unknown reasons, without any possibility of reversing such decisions. This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well. From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc. I do make backups of google content every so of…

How do you backup Gmail?

https://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+do+you+backup+gmail

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by benhurmarcel »

hosteur wrote: post #195
hpcjoe wrote: post #116

I keep hearing stories about similar issues. Suddenly someone is terminated from a Google service for unknown reasons, without any possibility of reversing such decisions. This appears to be true of Twitter and others as well. From my vantage point, it appears to be quite arbitrary. And quite concerning in a number of cases, given the centralization of email, docs, etc. I do make backups of google content every so of…

How do you backup Gmail?

You can download everything at once using Google Takeout. Or you can set up an email client with IMAP to download your email.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by benhurmarcel »

ashtonkem wrote: post #62

I honestly kind of hate most of Google’s products. While they are incredibly reliable, they often have inconsistent and poor UX, and are liable to either cancel or change the entire UI on a whim.

My company recently switched us to G Suite, and personally I quite like most of the products.

However, helping colleagues with the transition made very apparent that Google tools have many UI inconsistencies. They seem small but actually made the tools quite confusing to many colleagues.

The main issue was the overuse of the "3 dots" icons for a menu. Gmail in particular puts it in several locations for different menus, but in general it's all over G Suite. And there were also many small inconsistencies between products; for example the Gmail settings need to be saved at the bottom, while the Calendar settings autosave. Or in Gmail the settings for "display density" and "configure inbox" are outside of the rest of the settings.

Re: YouTube accidentally permanently terminated my account

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Post by benhurmarcel »

mceachen wrote: post #141
superasn wrote: post #79

I have all my photos including many precious pics like my daughter's first birthday, etc backed up only with Google photos (as GPhotos often cleans up my phones it removes the original too). Post like these are a true wake up call. I definitely need to setup something like syncthing to backup at least one more to good old usb 1tb drive. I guess you should too if you're in the same boat.

Make sure you get a Google Takeout, but realize that much of the image metadata is deleted (and sometimes outright changed) from the originals. My takeout failed with an write until I requested an archive that was only photos, and only a year-subset of my library (which required me to make a manual album). I also tried the open source "timeliner" project, (which does incremental backups very conveniently), but due to…

Is there a method for automatic backup of Google Photos? Something that a script could do, without manually using Google Takeout.

Also, is there another service to backup photos that doesn't modify the data? I was thinking of using Nextcloud. But the prices for Google One are quite attractive.

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