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Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by yunohn »

ratg13 wrote: post #30
yunohn wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you checked out the creators channel? What do you mean “misleading your audience”? It’s quite obvious to me that they are not a scientific awareness channel, and shouldn’t be treated like one.

I agree with you that they are not a scientific awareness channel, which in my opinion is exactly why this sort of thing should be censored because it is intentionally misleading. The author has the video re-posted, you can view it yourself.

Who are they intentionally misleading? People who search for “can I drink acid”? I just find it quite ridiculous that something like this needs to be censored.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by Kaibeezy »

ratg13 wrote: post #28
bambax wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

HN is not turning into reddit, however there are some users that come to this site and treat it similarly. Sometimes a friendly "that's not the way we do things here" is appropriate for newcomers.

Concur. It was a specific criticism of the comment, not a general criticism of HN.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by rasz »

mlazos wrote: post #20
Karishma1234fff wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair point, but they should apply that standard uniformly. Wasn't the ice bucket challenge dangerous ? And it was literally dangerous.

Personally I think a video with drink acid in the title seems a little more dangerous than videos properly named with people pouring ice water on each other, especially for children.

>Personally I think a video with drink acid in the title seems a little more dangerous

like citric acid? you cant cure stupid by censoring thing they dont understand

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by rasz »

ALittleLight wrote: post #14

I'm just imagining the YouTube censors who have to watch a thousand videos a day (or whatever). They see "drinking acid", click ban, and hit next. It's a cute joke but understandable why it gets banned.

hundreds of videos about drinking acids and smearing acids on your skin still up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvE7cqogFzc

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by patrick451 »

King-Aaron wrote: post #19
apostacy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> ...doesn't really seem plausible to me when we have adults killing themselves with fish tank cleaner because they confuse it for anti-viral meds What actually happened is that a woman murdered her husband with fish tank cleaner, and blamed Trump for it. And the media ran with it because that was a much more sensational story. https://www.yahoo.com/now/woman-blamed-trump-giving-her-1336... No, 30 people did not die…

> Nor was Kyle Rittenhouse a "mass shooter" that ambushed innocent civil rights demonstrators. He did shoot some people with a high powered rifle in public though, which in most parts of the world is something that you wouldn't get acquitted for.

It was clearly a case of self defense. What do other parts of the world have to do with it? If those regimes would rather you be dead than defend yourself, they are hardly a paragon liberalism.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by ergocoder »

Barrin92 wrote: post #6
ergocoder wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier. So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience. Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

Are you confused by hydroxic acid and hydrochloric acid?

Because I don't. They are obviously different spelling.

If people are confused by these two words, I have bad news for them. They might literally have brain problems.

> They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience

So what? Are they not allowed to state anything that is scientifically accurate?

What next? We should ban non-scientific channel who says masks help?

> Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things

Anything that is misinterpreted will lead to harmful things. That's the consequence of misinterpretation.

Hacker News could be misinterpreted as a community of hackers trying to hack into people's computers. Therefore, we should close down the community?

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by no_time »

barbacoa wrote: post #8

Another history channel I follow had their videos mass de-monetized and age restricted. It was purely educational nothing about the channel is remotely controversial. I am convinced YT is deliberately doing this to push out small content creators and replace them with corporate content creators that are fleeing the sinking ship that is cable TV.

I'm pretty sure their policies don't take channel size into account. Otherwise they wouldn't have nuked my favorite channel, JCS. Currently sitting at 4.7mil subscribers.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SwimJim/status/148026868974841447...

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by lil_dispaches »

Who are all these YT defenders in the comments? "Well, it says ACID, and as every ignorant person knows, ACID means BAD, and knowing the difference between substances is stupid!" You sound like a bot trying to make common sense from adversarial policies. ThisCommonSenseIsFake.com.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by hogrider »

lil_dispaches wrote: post #38

Who are all these YT defenders in the comments? "Well, it says ACID, and as every ignorant person knows, ACID means BAD, and knowing the difference between substances is stupid!" You sound like a bot trying to make common sense from adversarial policies. ThisCommonSenseIsFake.com.

At this point I'm pretty sure anyone shilling for these megacorps are paid trolls.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by barbacoa »

no_time wrote: post #37
barbacoa wrote: post #8

Another history channel I follow had their videos mass de-monetized and age restricted. It was purely educational nothing about the channel is remotely controversial. I am convinced YT is deliberately doing this to push out small content creators and replace them with corporate content creators that are fleeing the sinking ship that is cable TV.

I'm pretty sure their policies don't take channel size into account. Otherwise they wouldn't have nuked my favorite channel, JCS. Currently sitting at 4.7mil subscribers. https://mobile.twitter.com/SwimJim/status/148026868974841447...

Probably not based on size. But it is notable that this automated moderation collateral damage doesn't ever hit corporate channels such as those owned by ABC or Viacom -- even when those channels are smaller in subscribers and viewership than independent channels.
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