This is just going to be used to allow fascist propaganda, isn't it?
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2025
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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.
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Yep. It's exactly what Facebook did not long ago. It's just the most open oligarchy you can imagine, just consolidating their interests to push fascism at full throttle.
Its gonna be interesting, knowing some world cup is gonna happen on US soil as well.
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.
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Intention: YouTubers can stop with the whole self censoring shit.
Example: Unaliving; PDF file; grape; etc.
Reality: Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, and other right wing grifters receive zero censorship while YouTubers still have to self censor to receive monetization.
YouTube started to censor foss content for being violet and dangerous.
They won't ever say it out loud but they have always removed videos for mentioning alternative frontends or other technology they view as direct threats to their revenue stream.
for being violet
But what if it was chartreuse?
How long before Google locks YT down only to Chrome on Windows, Mac, ChromeOS, or Android, and blocks it from loading at all on non-Chrome browsers and on Linux or iOS, blocks it from loading at all if ad blockers, including hardware-based ad blockers ala PiHole, are implemented, and enforces hardware security measures ala TPM2 for authentication, and ensures that no one can download and re-upload YT vids, with DRM?
Basically, I wouldn't put it above them to ensure their video platform only runs on their browser, on hardware and OS platforms they deem worthy of running it, even down to somehow implementing a Vanguard-style rootkit.
they are working on it
- https://sh.itjust.works/post/2147959
- https://monero.town/post/989081
- https://lemmy.ml/post/2546109
- https://github.com/chromium/chromium/pull/187
don't worry, they didn't abandon it. they have continued development hidden from sight in the android version of the chromium engine
Intention: YouTubers can stop with the whole self censoring shit.
lol. that's not the intention.
Actual reality: Right-wing grifters are already on a "whitelist", as long as they also talk about lower taxes, lessening regulations and worker's protections, and also got popular enough. Source: knew a former moderator for Google.
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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.
"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.
Do people still have to say unalive?
Censorship is goddamn stupid. They should just tag content & let people decide what to filter.
Content speak continously erodes my frontal lobe.
I'm going to start using "inhumed".
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If only half of that leniency were granted to selfhosting tools and adblockers
They opened their doors to the goose stepping. Fucking corporate shitheads.
See the issue here is Google/Youtube still get to be the ones to decide what "may outweigh the harm risk". And the answer I bet will usually be whichever one serves their financial interests.
Which on one hand sure, it is their platform after all. But don't do me dry and claim you used lube.
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.
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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.
I still wouldn't trust Google not to nuke my channel on a whim even in spite of those relaxed moderation rules. What's stopping a little bribe from the right company or political party from causing them to backpedal or even tighten their grip further?
This is why one should at least mirror their content to PeerTube or a similar alternative platform like that even if they're not going to just outright post future content to said alternative and give up on YT altogether.
I agree. We've seen enough times in the past where a creator would get a strike from a video several years old because the rules changes. Anyone legit should be careful.
Slope's Game Room is about to lose his channel over 'hate speech' that isn't even his. One more reason for me to not post any future video content to YT if I ever seriously get into making vids and instead just posting everything to PeerTube where it at least isn't in danger of getting nuked because Google got pissed at me.
Update: he got to keep his channel. Still one more reason to not put any future content on YT should I pick up video content creation though.
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they dont need to nuke your channel, they just bury your videos with thier algorithim, this is what pushed many smaller content creators off youtube in the pass. a channel i used to follow, i would have to painstakingly search it through other videos that arnt even related to it.
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?
Introducing: Pay More, Say More
Surely this can't become deeply problematic for the social fabric.
Moderators were previously told to remove videos if one-quarter or more of the content violated YouTube policies. Now, that limit has been increased to half.
This seems like alien speak to me. They announce that shit, someone read it, and then repeated it in an article. But what does it mean?
Can you have 6 contents and make 2 really crazy? Can you tell people to commit violence for 5 minutes and then review a game for 6 minutes? Is there a dude with tvtropes open going through and marking the contents of content?
It depends on who is being targeted.
If you make a video calling for attacks on women, palestinians, gay people, etc., that's all good!
If you talk about taxing rich people, that's extreme violence. Immediate ban.
Believe it or not, straight to jail.
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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.
They really are killin' everything, aren't they...
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.
At least true crime youtubers won't have to bleep half their videos anymore /s
This sucks but I think this will lead to a Youtube exodus and other platforms like Peertube will creator and user base will grow
How many people have even heard of peertube?
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I'm gessing that's not gonna positively impact the people i watch and instead go towards some dumb shits.
"Muh ~~freedums~~ profit" outweighs life. The silent bit spoken aloud. Cool cool.
As expected from this timeline and this garbage conglomerate.
I like freedom of speech but it seems like it would be pretty difficult to weigh those things against one another. what is the metric that they have in common? I don't know that there is one
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