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YouTube Videos From Some High-Profile Channels Have Disappeared (venturebeat.com)

Posted by msmash on from the stranger-things dept.

Late last week, YouTube videos from several high-profile channels began to mysteriously disappear, puzzling both the owners of those channels and viewers. Some of these channels include MIT Open Courseware, Blender Foundation, Jamendo Music, India's Press Information Bureau, soccer club Sparta Praha, and England Rugby. In a statement, MIT Open Courseware said, "You may have noticed that we are having some trouble with our videos! Please stand by. The elves are working around the clock to fix the issue. There is still a ton of content you can use on MIT OCW's website that doesn't have video. Hang in there folks!" Ton Roosendaal, the chairman of Blender Foundation, has been tweeting his frustration at YouTube. The issue, which per Roosendaal YouTube is aware of, is yet to be resolved at the time of publication.

TorrentFreak, a news website which covers piracy and copyright issues, speculates that YouTube's piracy filters could be the bottleneck here.

YouTube has addressed the issue, says it is working to bring the videos back online.

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  1. I'm sorry, does this surprise you? by MikeRT · · Score: 5, Insightful

    YouTube is a $2B corporate welfare recipient that considers "fighting white supremacy" one of its most important engineering goals. They're not operating in the real world like most of us where the average person is more likely to be offended that their machine learning specialists are more concerned about Richard Spencer than answering "why are demonic horror movies like Hereditary showing up on channels primarily targeted at small kids."

    1. Re:I'm sorry, does this surprise you? by DogDude · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I'd be more concerned about my kids running into Richard Spencer videos than horror movies. Horror movies are obviously, not real. Nazis, unfortunately, still are very much real.

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    2. Re: I'm sorry, does this surprise you? by reanjr · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Unattended viewing by a child is the problem. Not YT's filtering and categorization. Once you have kids, you really need to fucking grow up and take responsibility for yourself and your family, and not try to blame the world for your own inadequicies as a parent.

    3. Re:I'm sorry, does this surprise you? by ScentCone · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Nazis, unfortunately, still are very much real.

      Well, sure, in a pathetic-idiots-dressing-up-like-Halloween flavor, yes. In terms of being an actual political party with real influence over people's lives? Not so much. Mind you, it is concerning that people using the Nazi Brown Shirt tactics and world view (Antifa) are happy to put on black outfits and beat people bloody in order to silence them at public gatherings. That sort of wannabe-Nazi-ism, where they proudly use violence to shut down public discourse, is troubling. But only because academics encourage it.

      But the real "still very much real" concern is, of course, the Marxist bunch. We still have a lot of people around the world and here in the US happily championing the world view that's killed over a hundred million people and counting. We can see their wreckage still happening all around us, and those same academics that cheer on the Antifa Brown Shirts trying to help them are the ones loudly proclaiming the superiority of the most deadly, destructive movement of the last couple centuries, if not all of history.

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    4. Re: I'm sorry, does this surprise you? by TimMD909 · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Better to expose young minds and deal with the consequences, than to try and permanently shield them... At some point, the real world comes knocking. If they already have experience countering obviously terrible ideas involving genocide, then anything less could be taken in stride.

      Note that I'm not talking about 4 year olds. I'm talking about kids old enough to be online without supervision. If you don't think the kid can tell apart truth from propaganda, the kid isn't old enough. If said kid doesn't pass the bar and is unsupervised online, then I refer to my previous comment.

  2. Re:Problem on High Volume Servers? by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or maybe it really is the piracy filters. With increasingly onerous laws around copyright and free speech, where simply responding to a takedown notice doesn't cut it any more, and where the consequences of non-compliance get more serious as well, I can imagine that companies like Google are cranking the criteria on their automatic filters up a notch or two.

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  3. Re:Problem on High Volume Servers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'm going to bet it's the automated claim/takedown system. Again.

    Bad actors are way to good at gaming it. With some bots (Or a hired out farm of workers) you can copy and then file claims against the content's original creators. It's also easy to issue false take downs for content you don't like.

  4. Re:Problem on High Volume Servers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or more likely SJWs complained about a video in the channel. I didn't realize you could see a gun store in the background of one of my videos so it was correctly deleted. I blurred the name of the store and reuploaded, but people still complained about it so much that I had my channel banned. Screw YouTube.

  5. Re:YT is f*cking up... by ckatko · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I LOVE that Slashdotters were all like "omg, they're a private company. And these are EXTREMIST channels! WHO CARES!" and now it finally hits channels they care about and they're like "omg, googggles is so evil."

    Fuckin' hypocrite, overload.