The most upsetting thing for me is, that YT acts in both legislative and executive functions here. It's one thing to make a rule, to ban "hacking techniques".

The most upsetting thing for me is, that YT acts in both legislative and executive functions here. It's one thing to make a rule, to ban "hacking techniques". But there should be an independent party who get's to decide whether a particular video is about "hacking techniques" or not. > Is teaching kids how to use wireshark(1) already hacking? > How about the Chrome dev-console? The current state of things, where: a) a proprietary algorithm decides if a rule is violated or not and b) you have no way to appeal decisions taken by YT, is appalling. Update: Well, there appears to be a YT-internal process to appeal censoring decisions. But who knows how well that works. In the past, appealing to copyright take-downs was practically impossible.