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YouTube Warns of 'Consequences' For Creators Who Misbehave (cnbc.com)
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has announced that creators whose actions impact negatively on its community will face "consequences." From a report: Wojcicki said the video-sharing platform is developing new policies that "would lead to consequences" if a content creator "does something egregious" that reflects unfavorably on other YouTube creators. YouTube's CEO made the comments in a blog post that detailed a list of the Google-owned firm's priorities for creators in 2018. In January, one of the service's most popular content creators, Logan Paul, published a video that showed the dead body of a man hanging from a tree. Wojcicki did not refer to the Logan Paul incident directly, but said that the misbehavior of some creators could put the broader YouTube community in a negative light. "While these instances are rare, they can damage the reputation and revenue of your fellow creators, so we want to make sure we have policies in place that allow us to respond appropriately," she said.
Behaving more and more like the TV networks we hate every day...
I wonder when they'll extend their definition of "to misbehave" to include people who are critical of their services/policies...
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They've demonetized many of the channels I like to watch...such a hunting, camping, home repair, etc.
It's stupid and random. If they have an algorithm doing this the programmer is a moron. If people are doing it, they are morons. if it's a mix, then it's the Perfect Storm of Morons.
Won't belong before the only channels unaffected by their stupidity are the Cute Cat channels and that won't last after the Animal Rights assholes get done with them.
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
I say this as a European socialist. Wojcicki is a cunt and Youtube suffers from it.
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Yes, Slashdotters who misbehave should be spanked by Brandi Love dressed as a school marm.
I've been bad, so I'll go first.
You are welcome on my lawn.
More talk of "consequences" for "misbehavior" with absolutely clarity about what that means. Just more ass-covering maneuvers by an Alphabet company that allow it to do whatever it wants with absolutely zero explanation.
Given Google's ideological track record both online and in the workplace, there is no reason whatsoever to believe this will be good for the content creator or the free exchange of ideas in general.
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Does this mean they are finally going to do something about all those people posting Nazi screeds thinly veiled as comic book or movie commentaries?
Ah yes, the traditional leftist approach: "I don't like it, so somebody else force them to stop so I don't have to be inconvenienced."
I'm kinda sick of those polluting my searches.
There are a lot of people who are pretty sick of various degenerate agendas polluting their searches too. Should be ban that too? What qualifies one to the noble position of having sensibilities that can be enforced by law? Surely it's not being of Jewish heritage.
She's an award-winning actress. Let's just leave it at that.
And it's best that you don't Google her, because then you'd not only be at work, but you'd be hard at work.
You are welcome on my lawn.
So, let me get this straight. If I feel like calling another YouTube creator an asshole in a viral rant that drives millions of customers to your site, that is going to lead to "consequences"?
I don't think that's where she was going. If I had to guess it's related to all the sexual harassment claims that have been going around lately. Previous policy changes had to do with demonetizing videos on a video by video basis. I think this is more about demonetizing videos due to behavior of the creators in their personal life. Similar to how some sports leagues punish players for something they may have done outside of the actual sport, like the NFL's "conduct detrimental to the league" policy.
Youtube has the largest collection of video content in recorded human history, and only provides a basic search box and a very half-baked suggestions algorithm to access them. There is no good index, by alphabet, by content type, by content subject or by or any other good way to really explore and sift through content on the site that you do not already know. I've been listening to a bunch of good music artists on Youtube the last few months, and the suggestions algorithm has completely boxed me in both on Youtube.com in the browser and in the Youtube Android app. I keep seeing the same artists and same types of songs being suggested over and over, as if the rest of the musical world doesn't exist at all. The only way to "break out of the box" is to start searching for a completely different type of artist whose name you already know. So from a technical/engineering/UX design standpoint, Youtube is NOT a well designed site at all. Maybe if you search for simple stuff like "Rihanna" or "SNL", the site will work for you. But if you want a text-based or better visual network-graph based UI that really lets you explore the site, that just doesn't exist on Youtube. I bet Alphabet see Youtube that way in their offices, but we ordinary Tubelings only get the search box and the -15 IQ suggestions algorithm that was probably put together by 3 programmers. THIS is what Youtube should be focusing their efforts on. A better UI, especially for the mobile app.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Around here, it seems that -gate is like a flag for indicating that one does not need to care very much about some controversy unrelated to their daily lives... for those too lazy to search for it (as I had to; something-gate is literally meaningless without context or "you had to be there!"), it was the controversy involving people gaming the Youtube Kids content selection algorithms to get off-color and outright offensive content selected.
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Then Anita Sarkeesian should be banned for life.
She was probably thinking about Logan Paul posting that video of a suicide victim's body.
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Don't worry Steemit and Dtube are on their way to rescue us from facebook and google ;) I would say about one more year before critical mass.
I got news, life is cruel and really bad things happen to people or they do it to themselves. I witnessed someone die next to me not too long ago. Get a grip.
The problem wasn't pointing out that life was cruel, it was the total lack of respect. For an individual, for a culture, and for a country. But from the rest of your post, I would guess that you have little understanding of that word.
Except they are a video distribution platform (and quite monopolistic at that), not a political party. If they start filtering content to only relay selected ideas, then they will have a significant impact on the population ideas which can easily drive an election in one direction or the other.
Which is why regulation is important, and should be as important as the company is monopolistic and has an impact on the population. We don't need regulation for your personal web site, but we do need it for Facebook and Google because they have a huge power (hence huge responsibilities towards the population).
Not good intentions.
Google hoped demonetization would "censor" the views they want to censor, but the best content producers have found other ways to monetize while still distributing on youtube.
So now they have constructed a policy that allows them to "innocently" remove the producers.
"His name was James Damore."
here's the context. The reason they were showing a song sung in Greece from the 50s with pictures from that era is because it was before immigrants came, e.g. when the country was Greeks only. The subtext is "Things were better before immigrants came, so we should send them away".
I guess the question is, is a segregationist message hate speech? In the United States it most certainly is. We have a long history of what's called "Separate by Equal" between our black and white populations where things were anything but equal. Not sure about Greece, but I'm inclined to agree with Youtube here.
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