This is just going to be used to allow fascist propaganda, isn’t it?
yes, surprising a total of 0 people.
I am Jack’s lack of surprise.
I assume you mean fascist propaganda over and above the right wing rabbit holes that already exist on YouTube….
Ugh, this is terrible.
there were so much rw propaganda before they announced this.
First thought exactly.
And still block curse words and specific terms. Fuck this place
Fuck this place
Are you implying you don’t use YT at all? Or you use it and choose to be unhappy with it?
Just curious, I often get mad because they need to censor words, but not to the degrees to say 'fuck this place" and move to the other (unborn) alternative.
I’m not sure of what you mean at the end there.
I see youtube content. I do not pay for it and they are likely unhappy that I get to use it as they get zero benefit from it.
Personally I don’t use YouTube the website at all at this point. I’m 100℅ Freetube and yt-dlp/Plex for watching the channels I like.
That’s fine, still YouTube at its core though.
The alternatives are there. They don’t have the volume of course, but they’re very much born…
Yes they are, some from the very conception of YouTube perhaps, but they are not real alternatives a real alternative would be one where all your subscriptions also upload the same content there, it is totally not YT based and you get the same or similar ecosystem Google provides, I don’t think too many channels fit this.
I mean, if your requirement for a youtube alternative is that it’s as big as YouTube, you’re just guaranteeing that there will never be a YouTube alternative…
Yeah perhaps, we are here on Lemmy after all, which I consider a Reddit alternative, but with YouTube the thing is different because we follow individuals, and here we follow subjects, hopefully somebody can truly stand out against Google in the video field, a movement big enough to motivate content creators to check it out, the last thing I hear was about Odysee, which I think is a step in the right direction.
Peertube is also a thing. Obviously, someone can’t make it on Peertube alone, but lots of folk out there upload to YouTube and to Peertube
Well yes. You obviously still can’t say “le dollar bean” without getting nuked from orbit. YouTube is a goodly Christian corporation after all, can’t have such content.
“Free speech” under capitalism means the freedom to promote fascism, rascism, misogyny, homophobia, genocide, etc…
But if you post half a second of a Disney movie, your account will be permanently deleted.
Great, now that 50% of a video can be a direct call for genocide, does that at LEAST mean I can use ONE instance of a “bad” word or speak of “icky” things like death and drug abuse without being demonized?
They opened their doors to the goose stepping. Fucking corporate shitheads.
This is such bad news. I’m sympathetic to content creators who have to step on eggshells to please the algorithm/advertisers… But this?
Yeah, this is not that. We all know who this is for.
almost all the right wing contents get pushed to the front. there are some that are also rw that is buried by the algorithim, because they are loud mouths, i wonder if this will change for them too.,
Videos are allowed if “freedom of expression value may outweigh harm risk”
oh it’s that easy huh. why didn’t we think of this before lol.
Do people still have to say unalive?
Censorship is goddamn stupid. They should just tag content & let people decide what to filter.
I’m going to start using “inhumed”.
Content speak continously erodes my frontal lobe.
People have literally never had to say that.
First off it was Tiktok, not YouTube, that started the “unalived” trend, but even then make no mistake, “killed,” “murdered,” “died,” etc has never been banned on tiktok either.
What has been happening is that videos (on tiktok) with “potentially divisive content” are not being promoted by tiktok. You video will not get removed just for saying the word “killed” and will still be fully available for viewing by your followers, it just won’t be promoted on the For You page for strangers.
And it’s fine if you still object to this, but we have to stop conflating the two. Not being promoting is not the same thing as being censored.
Edit: I don’t know who downvoted this or why, but I’m right
Maybe you’re right: is there verification?
Neither content policy (youtube or tiktok) clearly lays out rules on those words. I only find unverified claims: some write it started at YouTube, others claim TikTok. They claim YouTube demonetizes & TikTok shadowbans. They generally agree content restrictions by these platforms led to the propagation of circumspect shit like unalive & SA.
TikTok policy outlines their moderation methods, which include removal and ineligibility to the for you feed. Given their policy on self-harm & automated removal of potential violations, their policy is to effectively & recklessly censor such language.
Generally, censorship is suppression of expression. Censorship doesn’t exclusively mean content removal, though they’re doing that, too. (Digression: revisionism & whitewashing are forms of censorship.)
Regardless of how they censor or induce self-censorship, they’re chilling inoffensive language pointlessly. While as private entities they are free to moderate as they please, it’s unnecessary & the effect is an obnoxious affront on self-expression that’s contorting language for the sake of avoiding idiotic restrictions.
Yes but that’s not really a problem like the overwhelming fascism.
Wait what??? This came out of nowhere ??
YouTube not cracking down on free speech??
If only half of that leniency were granted to selfhosting tools and adblockers
They really are killin’ everything, aren’t they…
I’m gessing that’s not gonna positively impact the people i watch and instead go towards some dumb shits.
“Muh
freedumsprofit” outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.
Can we talk about adblockers, or is that still somehow worse than nazi shit?
Btw they removed a popular Youtuber’s “Degoogle Your Life” series lmfao (Linus Tech Tips). But a far-right thinnly-veiled racist video? All a’okay according to Google.
youtube shadowbanning, demonitization and censorship is the most retarded shit that’s ever happened to the internet. the whole website is videos and comments of people who cater to kids and commercial advertisers and cant say shit.
We will (still) allow children’s cartoon characters to be mutilated and put into explicit situations and then push them as child friendly, but how dare you use a swear in the first 15 seconds of a video or say the work kill.
