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Sounds like fake news nothing but speculation and inuendo.
by pmorici 10y ago
Sounds like fake news nothing but speculation and inuendo.
- logicallee 10y agoDid you see the article someone in this thread linked (cached)? It quotes YouTube's emails verbatim. I don't really have anything to be outraged about because we don't now why they did it. Certainly one thinks of Trump's positions but this would not extent to YouTube's actions.
- mjolk 10y agoYoutube is owned by Google. Google is not at all pro-republican party, so this is not a Trump-related thing.
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- wybiral 10y agoNot all fake news is political. This looks a bit like a marketing stunt. Their Twitter update is "YouTube/Google shuts down largest climate science channel". Notice that they don't say "our largest channel" or something less click baited.
- pmorici 10y agoThe fake part is that they are cherry picking facts from several unrelated things and putting them in the same article. The intent is clearly to give the impression to readers that they should think that their channel was somehow taken down do to government censorship when there is in fact zero evidence to suggest that. This is the _exact_ MO of all those sites people love to hate for fake news. The only real difference here is that because this fake story is about something that jives with a lot of peoples political opinions here they were primed to believe it w/o questioning.
- logicallee 10y agookay but the channel was taken down for some reason - what is it? I guess we don't know. If they were spamming or abusing policy in some active way they certainly hid it well in the write-up. (Dangerously so - it would take half a sentence for any reader, even a YouTube employee writing anonymously, to call them out on it.) There must be some "real" (actual) reason - and no one has even speculated as to what it is. The writeup (which you can see in the cached copy elsewhere in this thread, if the site is still down or unresponsive) makes it really clear that they haven't broken any policy and actively sought guidance on what their infraction might have been.
- wybiral 10y agoYouTube says: >This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations.
- logicallee 10y agoThey asked for clarification and did not receive any, and didn't have any violations they knew about. They certainly sound like they don't believe they have any violations and were not doing anything wrong. I will say that the word "ongoing" sounds like they admit they did some specific thing wrong in the past, that they rectified. It doesn't sound like "this came as a total surprise to us." I'm curious why they didn't choose to elaborate on the word "ongoing". Still, there had to be some reason for this action. They're curious what that was. (Or are faking being curious what that was - and they're faking it well; I believe them.)
- pmorici 10y agoIf their videos are anything like this blog post then they certainly fall into the "deceptive" category. No mystery there.
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- wybiral 10y agoIt does look a bit odd. They're selling their own domain on that site, but it's out of stock? Weird... http://climatestate.com/product/domain-climatestate-com/ http://climatestate.com/product/domain-climatestate-com/
- Avenger42 10y agoThat's probably just so that it'll show up in their store.