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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by fulafel on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:36AM (#25370181)
Youtube was already pervasively censored and editorialized / moderated. If you are using Youtube, it's important to be aware of its role as the arbiter of what's allowed and how discourse is directed.

But of course most Youtube hogwash content producers and their followers aren't in it for the love of truth or philosophy. Maybe some of the more naive are, and have been fooled to be puppets in Youtube's strings.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by minot on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:53AM (#25371389)
I have a screencast of installing Debian that’s unlisted and has one view uploaded several years ago and last month I got an email saying YouTube had decided, after a review, that it is only suitable for mature audiences. I don’t know who flagged it or who reviewed it but there’s no video, only a screen share of Debian installation and there’s no audio. I think YouTube just counts on people appealing wrongful flags.

I no longer believe YouTube is more malicious than it is incompetent.

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Re:YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread electio... by UnFleshedOne on Thursday December 10, 2020 @12:28PM (#25376049)
Does it have instances of fsck running, or maybe launching daemons? Can't show this stuff to the kiddies.
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