YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos

Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos by diodesign on Monday October 14, 2019 @05:57PM (#21253328)

Is this actually happening? Because it makes little sense when you consider that YouTube-parent Google is sponsoring security education videos. See this GCP-sponsored LiveOverflow video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-P9USG6kLs

Maybe Google's killing off dodgy script kiddie vids, and leaving quality content up (and I mean the rest of LiverOverflow's videos et al, not just the paid-for stuff.)

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Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos by ggggtez on Monday October 14, 2019 @06:16PM (#21253460)

I think this came up months ago and it was clarified it was just a mistake, not an actually policy. Google didn't actually ban educational videos, but people drew conclusions from Twitter and assumed the worst against reason.

Reddit comments seems to confirm that this is just fear mongering at this point, and the OP should know by now what happened.

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Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos by freyr on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @02:58AM (#21256155)

If you read the comments in the Reddit thread, this is clickbait fear-mongering. It's a sad state of affairs when Reddit users are savvier than HN users.

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Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos by pizzazzaro on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @04:08AM (#21256457)

Yes. We should all trust anonymous strangers on the internet over... anonymous... Strangers... On the internet...

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Re:YouTube is taking down educational hacking videos by freyr on Tuesday October 15, 2019 @11:24PM (#21266780)

I mean, you could spend a minute reading both sets of commenters. One is well-informed and reasonable, the other is an angry mob carrying pitchforks.

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