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Daily Stormer
September 15, 2016
In a disturbing development, Youtube removed the ‘ad friendly’ rating from a recent Philip defranco video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbph5…Now it turns out I’d been hit by a rash of these several months ago. I contested most of them, and youtube reinstated the ‘ad friendly’ rating. Nonetheless it was clear someone was going through and flagging as many of my vids as possible.
That sucks, because its basicly giving carte blanche to anyone who doesnt like what you’re saying, that all they have to do is flay you enough, and eventually they will win.
What seems to have followed the recent rash of this sort of thing is a new set of youtube ‘guidelines’. Naturally the guidelines as ever are so vaguely written that anything could be either permitted, or excluded. So in practice the guidelines are defined by their enforcement.
Defrancos video was honestly pretty vanilla stuff for youtube. However conspicuously it had a title critical of social justice warriors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbph5…
Further Im not so sure what youtubes playing at here. One of the reasons youtube was so successful was the liberty it gave its users. Not that that was entirely virtuous, after all, the more people who make videos, the more people watch them on youtube, the more money they make.
However, this development could be a ‘tip of the iceberg’ thing which shows that youtube is going the way of twitter and facebook in applying their beliefs to what the terms of service mean.
Well we all saw how that worked out with twitter, when they banned Milo at the behest of Leslie Jones. Meanwhile she had been openly boasting about how she engaged in exactly the sort of ‘bullying’ she was accusing Milo of.
