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This isn't news, of course they're able to change their own videos!
by Cozumel 10y ago
This isn't news, of course they're able to change their own videos!
- makomk 10y agoWell, of course it's possible for Google change any video on YouTube however they like (yours, theirs, someone else's). The news is that they're actually taking advantage of that ability to stealthily edit the details of something controversial.
- newjersey 10y agoDefense lawyers in countries with poor free speech rights can rejoice. "Yes, the video was uploaded under my client's account but prosecution has not process beyond a reasonable doubt that what we see today is what my client uploaded".
- watwatwatwat 10y agoWhat the fuck are you talking about?
- restlessdesign 10y agoThere are upload logs. They can be subpoenaed.
- ominous 10y agoThey can also be deleted.
- rando444 10y agoSo various governments calling up Google to stealthily edit out video content they don't agree with or might be harmful to them, doesn't concern you? Well that's fine, but please don't pretend this is a practice other people shouldn't be concerned about.
- rangibaby 10y agoIt's something that worries me. Erasing or changing data is a lot easier than book burning. Stalin's non-people for the 21st century.
- restlessdesign 10y agoI would be more concerned about people trusting content uploaded to YouTube as something that has meaningful, long-term political value.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt's getting harder and harder to trust anything today. Downloaded files can be fabricated. So can be paper photographs. Or old newspapers. Welcome to XXI century.