People need to realize that using "free" platforms, means they are beyond your control and your fate is up to their vagaries.
I'm against censorship (private censorship which takes political sides especially) but ultimately, unless you're hosting your own content, just enjoy what you get for free while you can and don't bank on it.
YT is not there to make _you_ money. They are there to make money for themselves. If you get in the way of that (via potential boycotts, online bandwagoning, etc.) they will likely cut you loose.
PS most of the censorship is done overseas, mostly SEAsia, not San Bruno, etc.
Agreed, but the sudden change of the rules - when a lot of people use the platform for their income - is causing a lot of heartache.
I follow a mainstream comedy channel about fitness hosted by a satirical gym guy (brosciencelife) that's fairly mainstream comedy - you'd see darker, less classy comedy in regular TV watching Stephen Colbert discussing Trump philating Vladmir Putin - but the writers, Mike and Gian, are demonotised all the time because there's no granularity in 'controversial'. Meanwhile big channels like Jake Paul were bothering corpses and YouTube didn't care until other creators caused an uproar.
There was a similar case where a new female rapper had a sexy video, and it got demonetised, comparing it to a bunch of more explicit videos from well known rappers which YouTube didn't care about.
It's exactly like Twitter - rules aren't being enforced consistently and it drives people nuts.
Except, I can choose to not use Google and still be adversely impacted.
Google controls the vast majority of search, and if they decide to not include me in their results because they don't like me, I am negatively impacted. Ditto for Youtube, its the default online video platform. If they don't like my content, they can just ban my account. Sure I can host it elsewhere, as long I don't care about advertising or dealing with the scale that video brings.
> People need to realize that using "free" platforms, means they are beyond your control and your fate is up to their vagaries.
People need to realize that there is no such thing as free. Nobody is getting anything for free here, because usage of the service generates analytics data, and it goes into a thick file connected to your account. Those so-called "free" platforms also monopolize the market space, creating less incentives for alternative implementations and competing platforms. Few alternatives are therefore developed, further monopolizing the space, and further cementing the fact that having a choice in the matter isn't in the cards.
you can use them without being tracked by watching in anon mode, or deleting your cookies first. google doesn't block you. i watch it that way all the time. and its free.
I'm against censorship (private censorship which takes political sides especially) but ultimately, unless you're hosting your own content, just enjoy what you get for free while you can and don't bank on it.
YT is not there to make _you_ money. They are there to make money for themselves. If you get in the way of that (via potential boycotts, online bandwagoning, etc.) they will likely cut you loose.
PS most of the censorship is done overseas, mostly SEAsia, not San Bruno, etc.