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Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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You are sometimes the product when you buy something, but it's not a necessary part of that model. You are always the product in "free" services like FB, YouTube. It is a fundamental part of that model. There are plenty of shitty companies in both buckets (and seemingly more as time goes by) but let's not pretend there's never a difference.

I'd be happy to see such a counter example. If something can phone home, it will . I've yet to see a purchasing site (= I am the customer) which does not share data with third parties, for example.

How about Fastmail or Posthaven?

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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If you consider DeFi as scam (and I do, as they're always MLM pyramid schemes), then a hackathon distributing prizes with DeFi is a platform for scam. That doesn't mean a video about it should or shouldn't be allowed, but it isn't a far stretch from thereon.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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Update: 3 hours after posting and being on the hacker news front page: Automated email out of the blue: "We’re pleased to let you know that we’ve recently reviewed your YouTube account, and after taking another look, we can confirm that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service. We have lifted the suspension of your account, and it is once again active and operational." Thanks hacker news for voting this up and…

It’s funny how Google’s automated system will flag a small video like yours but I see tons of crypto scams on SpaceX imposter live feeds with thousands of viewers

These probably get flagged away just as often or even more so than some rando legit channel that triggered some "reason". The reason they seem to always stay online though is because, well, the people behind them are scammers, and their daily bread comes from repeatedly thwarting anti-scam efforts by bigcorps and scaling back to thousands of apparent viewers as rapidly as possible. None of this is to deny Google's fair share of deserved shit in its face for its hideous customer and user service, but it's a point worth mentioning.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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> Legally accountable for what? The legally accountable for providing a product that doesn't cause undue harm to the population. > They do not owe anyone free access I pay for services from Google, so does the entire customer base of the play store. The user in the published article was a paying YouTube music customer. > but they are have no obligation to let you renew, I would disagree. When companies are allowed to…

> When companies are allowed to become large enough that they have a significant effect on the ability for alternatives to compete in the marketplace, they assume an obligation to provide access to that marketplace to everyone. I would disagree. "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." There is no obligation to keep doing things the same way they've "always" been done. Every interaction is decided on a c…

> One does not forfeit freedom of (dis)association through mere inertia; one retains the right to make exceptions or to change one's mind.

We are not talking about a person, we are talking about a corporation. While there is certainly a value to freedom of disassociation for large corporations, I see no reason that freedom is not bounded by the right to have access to services that are available to the general public. We don't allow service to be terminated to people of a protected class, we don't allow service to be terminated explicitly to interference with your ability to compete.

> nationalizing a private service by imposing its own terms.

Regulating a business is not the same thing as nationalizing it. Trying to conflate such terms is not debating in good faith. Please try to think outside of your black and white partisan rhetoric and participate in a real discussion.

There is value, to Google, in those expectations being possible. Those expectations encourage people to do business with Google and trust Google with their data. Similar to the value of a stable currency or an incorrupt judicial system, these are expectations that enable the flow of commerce to the benefit of all. Creating a government run AppStore or YouTube fails to accomplish those goals and does nothing to enable commerce.

There is value in free enterprise and not restricting people's ability to find new ways to solve problems. That does not mean that large corporations have the right to treat people disposably. If we don't let ourselves get trapped in ideologically rigid thought we can find a way to balance these needs and rights in a fair way.

I would also note that these large companies don't actually want to terminate service to the users who would win on appeal. It is just that these companies don't want to pay to process appeals for spammers and fraudsters. Creating a system of fair and properly incentivized account adjudication could improve things for everyone.

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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I think the word “protection” implies there’s some reason to be protected.

I mean technically your skin protects you so you're protected.

The add says "from 4G and 5G"

Re: YouTube suspended my account for posting DeFi hackathon video

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> Because minting money is a pretty normal thing in finance, especially if you want to avoid deflation. Tether is “minting” USDT, a token pegged to 1 USD - out of thin air. That’s not the same thing as printing currency.

Minting USDT currency to prevent deflation and keeping the currencies value around the value of 1 USD(1) is pretty much the same as printing USD to prevent deflation and keeping USD at the same value as some other currency/security, e.g. the Euro or Gold. The only difference is that most currencies place themself in relation to the USD, but anyway conceptually pretty much the same. Because in the end weather it's USD…

That’s the thing though, USDT isn’t a currency - it’s a stable coin pegged to the USD. They can’t “print” more without getting more USD to back it up.
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