> promptly restored upon manual review.

Promptly restored upon viral traction of outrage...just like that podcast app was....

Exactly. What else aren't we hearing about that's being arbitrarily censored by YouTube? And can we really trust it as a platform? I'm losing more trust in Google every day. 10 years ago was "don't be evil." Now, they're just, "be only as evil as you can get away with."

The situation is very similar to what's happening with a lot of Android developers. Many incidents where their app gets banned or removed for silly things. One I remember was getting removed because they had the word "windows" in their play store metadata and Google banned it because of having third party platform name. Except the app was using the term "windows" in reference to a house window, not the OS. Emailing play store support is pretty much useless unless you are a big company or can generate enough viral outrage on social media for them to notice.

At least on Android you can sideload apps...that's not the case on iOS

I develop apps for both iOS and Android. There's pros and cons to both. I prefer developing for iOS as there's more money in it plus I enjoy the platform more but if people want more customization, Android is definitely better.

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Google does not have the rights to any of those videos it is censoring? It is like academic publishing. Google is gatekeeper charging a fee (user privacy).

Not sure if anyone has noticed but when logging in to a Gmail account, Google is trying to access a YouTube domain. Not too many weeks ago they announced a change in the YouTube terms of service. Sad to think every video you watch could be used to help online advertisers. Google is not like the public library. The public library does not use the list of every book or other item you borrowed to try to help the ad industry. Of course it is much more than just a list of videos. They probably record data such when you watched, what portions you watched, etc.

I haven't used Peertube. What are your thoughts on it?

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If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine. That would have a different ideological narrative attached, though. But I think, fundamentally, the motivations for a big tech company are different from those of a university. Universities are most interested in preventing disruption on campus that might lead to bad press (and less donations). Big tech platform owners tolerate all sorts of flamewars and offensive or misleading content until governments start talking about regulating them, at which point they try to "self-regulate" by purging everything related to whatever the governments are getting worked up about. So you have at least two types of incentives that lead to censorship of various views, and it's inaccurate to claim that the college campuses are somehow the root of both.

> If we're going to tie this to college campus censorship, a better analogy would be the tendency of many schools to ban speakers who might criticize the US foreign policy orthodoxy on Israel/Palestine.

That's not who is being banned though: https://www.thefire.org/research/disinvitation-database/#hom...

> Big tech platform owners tolerate all sorts of flamewars and offensive or misleading content until governments start talking about regulating them, at which point they try to "self-regulate" by purging everything related to whatever the governments are getting worked up about.

That's verifiably incorrect. The current administration abhors big tech censorship: https://twitter.com/michellemalkin/status/126169284113628774...

Our Covid app was built for a local Govt in India with all official documentation and yet it was banned and no explanation.

one have to wonder, if users are already doing all the work to flag and make noise to restore the false positives, what value the centralizers of information even add?

the case for p2p is stronger than ever now that bandwidth is cheaper. downloading a torrent from other users is faster than pressing play on youTube, when you account the time wasted with advertising.

I am with you on the p2p thing. I have been considering developing video streaming with p2p (similar to bitchute but better UI/UX). But despite that, p2p still needs a central server for the non-video elements like static files - images, css, html etc. Can't avoid it 100%

No. It got reinstated because there was enough viral outrage. Smaller people and creators don't have that luxury.

Yeah, relax guys, we only burn the bad books!