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Youtube Targetting Cryptocurrency Channels?

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EEVblog:
If this thread doesn't get back on track I'm going to have to clean it the thread.
I don't want this to turn into another NiHaoMike wank fest.

NiHaoMike:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 28, 2019, 12:01:06 am ---as to demonetizing, I don't know which category it falls in... they are probably just following their customers' wishes (the companies that pay for advertising). This doesn't make them publishers per se, but some sort of agent between the companies and the content creators.

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What if we responded to demonetization with our own demonetization? In other words, use adblock.

nctnico:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 28, 2019, 12:01:06 am ---
--- Quote from: Syntax Error on December 27, 2019, 05:24:31 pm ---
--- Quote from: legacy on December 27, 2019, 04:37:34 pm ---my humor for the word "dangerous content", like if having a red-polarization could make a video "dangerous", etc. When it's perceived this way, it's clearly a bug in the AI.
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YouTube is NOT a publisher, but withholds payments to a content creator for violations? Sounds rather like the behaviour of a publisher to me.

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Yeah, this point is very tricky, and a real mess.

The mere fact that Youtube can decide which content can stay on the "platform" and which can't makes it have prerogatives of a publisher. The fact it can withhold payments as well. As long as it has a say in the contents themselves, it's a publisher IMO. But they are probably working around that, at least for the pure censoring. They just say videos are censored when they are against the law. That in itself doesn't make them publishers, but just respecting laws... as to demonetizing, I don't know which category it falls in... they are probably just following their customers' wishes (the companies that pay for advertising). This doesn't make them publishers per se, but some sort of agent between the companies and the content creators.

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Well, Youtube is at least balancing somewhere between platform and publisher trying to be on the side which gets them most money for least effort. Is Youtube making money anyway? Last time I heard they where still making a loss.

Ed.Kloonk:
Is it just me or is Rossmann now the go-to channel for cat videos?

nali:
Looks like YT have now admitted their mistake...

YouTube admits error over Bitcoin video purge
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50924494


--- Quote ---YouTube said in a statement that it had "made the wrong call" and confirmed that any content mistakenly removed would be restored.

"With the massive volume of videos on our site, sometimes we make the wrong call," it said.

"When it's brought to our attention that a video has been removed mistakenly, we act quickly to reinstate it."

It said there had been no changes to its polices, and insisted there would be "no penalty" to any channels that were affected by the incident.
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