YouTube IT Issues Or Censorship Tool Testing?

[The Conservationist]

The past few days I've noticed at least a few of the non-political YT channels I pay attention to have had many of their videos disappear from their pages, but, if you search for them via YT search, presuming you knew the video title, you could still find the video.

Anyone else noticing this?

I've tried a few different browsers and the such, same results.

And yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if some say "don't use YouTube" or some variation of that, fact is though, plenty of non-political content is there and Bitchute/Rumble/etc. haven't surpassed YT in this.

Edit:
I posted about it in their YT help community, and within a few hours that post was seemingly shadow-banned as well. Looking a bit more like censorship than an IT hiccup.

 

[Rororo]

I've heard some youtuber mentioning that they got some of their videos taken down. Old videos that had been there for a long time. When they got the takedown notice, the notice was precise and pinpointing the issue. It use to be very broad, so youtube changed their methodology and might be testing it out.
Trump talked about changing some things related to social media censorship, and vague takedowns was one of them iirc.

 

[Hirudinea]

I'm for what I call a "De Facto Public Service Censorship" law. The post office doesn't censor your mail, when Bell had a telephone monopoly they didn't censor your phone calls, a service which controls such a vast majority of the market, like the post office or telephone, has a certain obligation not to censor it's users at a whim. YouTube, Twitter, Tik-Tok, etc now have market control almost equal to the Post Office or old Ma Bell, and with such control I think they should not be allowed to censor at their whim, either that or they be broken up, whichever is fine.

 

[Malthael]

To sum it up, Trump plans to remove social media platforms protections under section 230 of the US which protects platforms AND publishers.

The issue that has arised is platforms are not allowed to act as publishers in order to have these protections but over the last decade social media platforms have been acting as publishers by censoring information, he plans to remove platforms from section 230 so people can sue the platform if they censor someone so they are going nuts at the moment.

 

[Hirudinea]

Interesting, but can Joe Blow afford to sue YouTube?

 

[Rororo]

@Malthael Nowhere in 230 does it say that the platform needs to be neutral or can't banned things they don't want. A car forum wouldn't lose it's section 230 protection because "it acts as a publisher" and remove posts about cats.

Here is the part in question: "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider."

What section 230 does is protect the car forum from being sued for an article they have on their website from the CretinBroadcastingCompany (CBC). Under section 230, only the CBC, the creator of the content could be sued, not the owner of the Car Forum, its host, and the user that posted the link.

 

[Hirudinea]

The past few days I've noticed at least a few of the non-political YT channels I pay attention to have had many of their videos disappear from their pages, but, if you search for them via YT search, presuming you knew the video title, you could still find the video.

Anyone else noticing this?

I've tried a few different browsers and the such, same results.

And yeah, it wouldn't surprise me if some say "don't use YouTube" or some variation of that, fact is though, plenty of non-political content is there and Bitchute/Rumble/etc. haven't surpassed YT in this.

The Conservationist
You're right, YouTube is still the best for non-political content.

 

[Shotnerves]

This shadow banning has been going on at YouTube for years.

 

[The Conservationist]

Sure, wouldn't had expected non-political content to be subject to it, though.

 

[Shotnerves]

They probably committed some other form of wrongthink.

 

[Shockadee]

For quite a while in the lead up to the election in the us all I was getting recommended on YouTube was gaming vids and outrage porn. (Karens, cops and commies)

Since the election I've been recommended a lot of moderate right wing political content, guntube and ancient aliens / mystery / UFO / educational longer form content.

The switch was noticeable. Dunno what it means but the algo definitely changed.