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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by cortesoft on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:29PM (#14094510)
No, but they aren't doing anything to suppress the video, they are just refusing to host it. If you expand the definition of censorship to anyone who refuses to host a specific piece of content, then it basically loses all meaning. The New York Times is censoring me by not publishing my article. This science journal is censoring me by not publishing my paper.
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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by abraae on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @11:49PM (#14094603)
Except that Youtube's position is that they will host anything, of any quality, unless it crosses one of their red lines.

Whereas NYT will only publish stuff of high quality.

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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by cortesoft on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:13AM (#14094694)
So the NYT just has higher editorial standards, but the practice is the same.
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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by Neliquat on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @08:35AM (#14096993)
>Whereas NYT will only publish stuff of high quality

You made me spit coffee.

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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by nemothekid on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @01:38AM (#14095050)
YouTube isn't refusing to host the videos - advertisers just aren't paying as much for that sort of content.
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Re:YouTube Advertiser Meltdown: An Opportunity for Startups by makomk on Wednesday April 12, 2017 @12:06PM (#14099004)
Actually, advertisers can't pay for adverts on anything vaguely political or controversial on YouTube full stop. Google won't let them, because the headlines in the press about <big brand> funding <terrifying-sounding characterisation of some obscure video> have cost them probably somewhere in the ballpark of a billion dollars as advertisers get scared and pull ads from YouTube as a whole. It's probably only a matter of time before the press figure out how to frame this in a way that forces them to pull the videos altogether.
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