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Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by cbozeman »

Jenk wrote: post #27
throwaway45349 wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

4chan is a shady place, but it is definitely not a bastion of child porn. The owners do not allow anything like that.

/b/ has been an epicentre for decades.

That is total horseshit.

Yes, there are points in time when posters have attempted to post child pornography there, but it gets taken down swiftly and gets reported to moderators as swiftly as its posted.

Your "epicentre" of child pornography on the Internet is Facebook, not 4chan.[1]

[1]: https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/213-worst-epidemic/

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by hobofan »

devoutsalsa wrote: post #53
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #22

Because they are finally learning that all it takes to destroy their business is an algorithm glitch, or having 'wrong' political views, or just falling on the wrong side of an overzealous moderator. When you use someone else's platform you are completely dependent on the owner of the platform, and being dependent on something you don't control is a huge business risk.

Even if you keep up with what’s politically correct, your old content can become increasingly unfavorable. You can get railroaded for something you said 10 years ago that was seemingly alright at the time. I cringe at myself 10 years ago.

And how is that different on any other platform?

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by dblooman »

Floatplane as explained by Linus doesn't make sense, you support a creator by getting videos a little earlier. The cost of building and maintaining a platform like that must be large and seems unnecessary for what is essentially video Patreon.

What is sad is that you see youtubers talking in code on videos, not saying words, self censoring because youtube's detection is so good, videos get demonetised instantly. This is also why most people have seen an Ad in a video for PIA or surfshark or worse, raid shadow legends.

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by Jenk »

cbozeman wrote: post #81
Jenk wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

/b/ has been an epicentre for decades.

That is total horseshit. Yes, there are points in time when posters have attempted to post child pornography there, but it gets taken down swiftly and gets reported to moderators as swiftly as its posted. Your "epicentre" of child pornography on the Internet is Facebook, not 4chan.[1] [1]: https://samharris.org/subscriber-extras/213-worst-epidemic/

an epicentre, not the epicentre.

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by celticninja »

user-the-name wrote: post #57
Andrew_nenakhov wrote: post #22

Because they are finally learning that all it takes to destroy their business is an algorithm glitch, or having 'wrong' political views, or just falling on the wrong side of an overzealous moderator. When you use someone else's platform you are completely dependent on the owner of the platform, and being dependent on something you don't control is a huge business risk.

What "wrong" political views are those?

Generally extreme ones. You can be politically on the right and espouse views such as "lower taxes, smaller government, less regulation" but spilling over into racism is what would be termed "wrong". The right are not at risk of being deplatformed,the racist right is.

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by [deleted] »

fallingknife wrote: post #77
user-the-name wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What "wrong" political views are those?

Apparently, in the case of Parler, believing that you should allow users to post any legal content without moderation. (I know they didn't lose their domain, but the effect of being denied hosting is functionally the same.)

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Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by celticninja »

fallingknife wrote: post #77
user-the-name wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What "wrong" political views are those?

Apparently, in the case of Parler, believing that you should allow users to post any legal content without moderation. (I know they didn't lose their domain, but the effect of being denied hosting is functionally the same.)

The problem, as I understand it was not the posting of legal content but the fact it wasn't moderated meant there was borderline stuff, calls for specific people to be killed etc, that were the key factor in them losing hosting.

Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by [deleted] »

hobofan wrote: post #82
devoutsalsa wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even if you keep up with what’s politically correct, your old content can become increasingly unfavorable. You can get railroaded for something you said 10 years ago that was seemingly alright at the time. I cringe at myself 10 years ago.

And how is that different on any other platform?

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Re: Popular YouTubers who are building their own sites

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Post by bawolff »

fallingknife wrote: post #77
user-the-name wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What "wrong" political views are those?

Apparently, in the case of Parler, believing that you should allow users to post any legal content without moderation. (I know they didn't lose their domain, but the effect of being denied hosting is functionally the same.)

Isn't AWS's claim that parlar was hosting illegal content?

Regardless, they signed a contract detailing what they could and could not host on aws. They broke it. Its not like they were unaware of the requirements. Moral of the story, if you promise X, dont promise someone else Y if X and Y conflict. You are going to be breaking your word ine way or another.

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