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There are thousands of hours of excellent cybersecurity content hosted on YouTube. The possibility of losing this wealth of information and history is shocking to me. Time to start the archive effort. And to finally appreciate what so many other communities have gone through when they've found themselves on the wrong side of one of the internet behemoths. I feel naive.
PeerTube [1] is a Mastodon [2] offshoot project that might allow users to get off YT, no idea where it's at though.
"One project, Peertube, does exactly this. A federated, decentralized video sharing platform using the same back end as Mastodon, but around the sharing of video clips."[3]
[1] https://joinpeertube.org/ [2] https://joinmastodon.org/ [2] https://medium.com/tootsuite/replacing-the-pillars-of-the-in...
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.
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.
Rhetorical question: If a YouTube video can show how to bypass it, does it really count as a "secure" system?
Rhetorical answer: If you can secure a system through legislation, it is no longer necessary to secure it through engineering.
I know this might not be a popular opinion. But showing people how to hack systems... that seems like an OK thing to ban. It's a crime. Teaching people how to commit a crime has always been not OK.
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 shoot a watermelon full of tanerite"
"what happens if I microwave ammunition" (Demolition Ranch has an entire series of these)
"what happens if I microwave a full ak mag" (Demolition Ranch has an entire series of these)
"what happens if I put the wrong caliber ammunition in a firearm" (Demolition Ranch, also I believe King of Everything did this as well he also was in the news for at least two of his videos and had legal action taken against him for making explosives around the same time)
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.
Similarly Cody's Lab was losing it last year or the year before when his account was suspended... after he literally rushed through an airport talking to his phone animatedly about making explosives and --- blowing himself up --- in a previously uploaded prank video, and this year he's been griping about how his videos are being demonetized again... well... yeah... you poured liquid mercury into your mouth and were squirting it through your teeth... and you previously almost blew your finger off when you were whacking home-brew nitro glycerine with a steak knife... and you had the federal agents visit your house in response to when you talked about how to make yellow cake at home and were showing your incredibly poor storage methods for radioactive dust. You aren't being persecuted, Google and/or the authorities are trying to make sure you aren't going to do harm to others or instruct others how to do harm.
I imagine the spirit behind this is more to ban videos like
"hack your girlfriend's phone to install secret tracking apps"
and
"how to hack our neighbors WiFi"
instead of "how to assess vulnerabilities in your network"
Earlier quoted context omitted.
> if it exists. It doesn't.
redtube and other porn oriented platforms have no porn content.
I think that you dropped a letter which radically alters the meaning of this sentence from what was intended.