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Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by parmesan on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:42PM (#15725802)
There are bots, humans and what not exchanging code words and encrypted data in the comments on many of the involved channels. There are thousands "confirmed" channels with many of them having hundreds of videos each, there are hundreds of comments on each video.

The content is clearly managed by a "small" number of individuals. It's dark. I usually don't catch on to conspiracy theories, but there's a lot of data to go on when it comes to this one.

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Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by viraptor on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:03PM (#15725926)
Is there any reason to believe in the encrypted data being exchanged? The conspiracy theory is basically equivalent to saying some groups are running number stations via YouTube comments and that's... silly in many ways.
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Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by matt_wulfeck on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:26PM (#15726092)
Sorry. The criminals can already communicate to each other openly on the dark web. There’s no reason for them to exchange coded messages on a YouTube channel. The most probable answer is certainly the simplest: these are garbage comments on garbage videos.
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Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by kthejoker2 on Friday November 17, 2017 @09:56PM (#15727551)
Could be a plausibly deniable way to introduce others, especially non technical people, to your product.
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