I'd happily support DS, but unfortunately the only effective ways to correct Youtube are lawsuit and boycott. What we really need is an "innocent until proven guilty" creator-friendly alternative with a commitment to a transparency. Complaints, defenses, and arbitration results should all be public. Contested videos should be left up but flagged until arbitration occurs, with links to the complainant's and creator's histories available to indicate how strong or weak their complaint is likely to be. Even just a "won/lost" counter would be enough. Why no wannabe YouTube competitor has taken this business model upon themselves is utterly beyond me. Free speech seems to be working for Twitter-competitor gab.ai.
YouTube needs more unbiased staff to deal with complaints. Useful idiot SJWs flagging people's accounts is at best harassment. YouTube is more concerned about per minute views than policing peoples likes or dislikes of a video until it becomes a legal liability for them. Case in point one of my clients had a video copywright striked because they used a copyrighted song in under an hour. I in turn put up the entire album that the song came from and spammed it. It stayed up for a good 2 months before the account got a copywright strike. YouTube isn't purposefully targeting anyone. It's just got a mess of a system to work around that penalizes average users over trivial shit. Or automatically gets you suspended because of a SJW reporting brigade triggering an automated response.
YouTube is privately owned. They are not openly government / public. Therefor they can delete whatever they want..
They attempt to maintain the reputation of "free speech" for public relations reasons, not because they have to.
I'm assuming no one can compete with them because it's a lot of capital involved, to start it up..
Many people post on Vimeo instead , and then just share the links; to avoid the YouTube censorship.
Of course you may then get less views.
but honestly you can't trust the view counts on YouTube anyway. It's gamed.
One thing good about YouTube is that if you mirror enough, they have a hard time taking it down or expunging it.
YouTube doesn't have the resources to police anything the way people like you describe. It's reliant on 3rd party reports that 99% create an automated response.
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oldchangling ago
I'd happily support DS, but unfortunately the only effective ways to correct Youtube are lawsuit and boycott. What we really need is an "innocent until proven guilty" creator-friendly alternative with a commitment to a transparency. Complaints, defenses, and arbitration results should all be public. Contested videos should be left up but flagged until arbitration occurs, with links to the complainant's and creator's histories available to indicate how strong or weak their complaint is likely to be. Even just a "won/lost" counter would be enough. Why no wannabe YouTube competitor has taken this business model upon themselves is utterly beyond me. Free speech seems to be working for Twitter-competitor gab.ai.
antisocialist ago
YouTube needs more unbiased staff to deal with complaints. Useful idiot SJWs flagging people's accounts is at best harassment. YouTube is more concerned about per minute views than policing peoples likes or dislikes of a video until it becomes a legal liability for them. Case in point one of my clients had a video copywright striked because they used a copyrighted song in under an hour. I in turn put up the entire album that the song came from and spammed it. It stayed up for a good 2 months before the account got a copywright strike. YouTube isn't purposefully targeting anyone. It's just got a mess of a system to work around that penalizes average users over trivial shit. Or automatically gets you suspended because of a SJW reporting brigade triggering an automated response.
samhara ago
YouTube is privately owned. They are not openly government / public. Therefor they can delete whatever they want..
They attempt to maintain the reputation of "free speech" for public relations reasons, not because they have to.
I'm assuming no one can compete with them because it's a lot of capital involved, to start it up.. Many people post on Vimeo instead , and then just share the links; to avoid the YouTube censorship.
Of course you may then get less views. but honestly you can't trust the view counts on YouTube anyway. It's gamed.
One thing good about YouTube is that if you mirror enough, they have a hard time taking it down or expunging it.
antisocialist ago
YouTube doesn't have the resources to police anything the way people like you describe. It's reliant on 3rd party reports that 99% create an automated response.
samhara ago
Liar.