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Discussion Youtube ?

So this is news under "social" category

Youtube is social media & apparently they are taking down lots of videos / channels without valid rationale.

So the question is how does this impact everyone — both as social media content creators & consumers ?
 
brycejones said:
Evidence? Is there something in common with the videos being removed?
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Couple of reasons, I've come across

  1. Copyright violation (even if that is disputed by the creator)
  2. Safety regulations on "how to" videos (this just seems like censorship to me)
Others can add more, that they are aware off
 
marees said:
Couple of reasons, I've come across

  1. Copyright violation (even if that is disputed by the creator)
  2. Safety regulations on "how to" videos (this just seems like censorship to me)
Others can add more, that they are aware off
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Is you tube suddenly desalting videos or are people just becoming aware because of this new feature?
 
marees said:
So this is news under "social" category

Youtube is social media & apparently they are taking down lots of videos / channels without valid rationale.

So the question is how does this impact everyone — both as social media content creators & consumers ?
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I have not seen any news articles or statistics noting increased take downs of videos.
 
pete6032 said:
I have not seen any news articles or statistics noting increased take downs of videos.
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Google's YouTube took down over 11.4 million videos between April and June, the company said in its Community Guidelines Enforcement report. The numbers are significantly higher than the videos – under 9 million – removed in the same period last year. The change has happened mainly because the company relied more on its algorithms instead of human moderators.

YouTube said it took down 1,998,635 channels and 2,132,367,731 comments during the said period.

According to the report, YouTube took down 10,849,643 videos through automatic flagging. About 382,499 videos were taken down through user reports. YouTube's individual trusted flaggers helped taking down 167,318 videos.

tech.hindustantimes.com

YouTube took down over 11.4 million videos between April-June this year

YouTube said it took down 1,998,635 channels and 2,132,367,731 comments between April and June this year.
tech.hindustantimes.com tech.hindustantimes.com
 
marees said:
Google's YouTube took down over 11.4 million videos between April and June, the company said in its Community Guidelines Enforcement report. The numbers are significantly higher than the videos – under 9 million – removed in the same period last year. The change has happened mainly because the company relied more on its algorithms instead of human moderators.

YouTube said it took down 1,998,635 channels and 2,132,367,731 comments during the said period.

According to the report, YouTube took down 10,849,643 videos through automatic flagging. About 382,499 videos were taken down through user reports. YouTube's individual trusted flaggers helped taking down 167,318 videos.

tech.hindustantimes.com

YouTube took down over 11.4 million videos between April-June this year

YouTube said it took down 1,998,635 channels and 2,132,367,731 comments between April and June this year.
tech.hindustantimes.com tech.hindustantimes.com
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If I had to guess, I bet there is a lot more AI slop/political video content being created now than last year, and that could be why more content is being removed.
 
Does any of this have something to do with the words "dead" and "killed" not being used on youtube anymore?
 
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You can't cross anyone with money or power on YouTube.
A British guy posted how to install Windows 11 on non-supported hardware.
YouTube took it down and threatened to demonetize his channel if he continued.
He cannot get a response from YouTube as to how he broke a rule.

My guess is Microsoft made a phone call to Google
 
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