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I don't believe slippery slope applies in this situation. For the most part Youtube has been fairly lenient as to which accounts get heavily moderated and/or re

by ctrl-j 6y ago

I don't believe slippery slope applies in this situation. For the most part Youtube has been fairly lenient as to which accounts get heavily moderated and/or removed. I may revise my opinion if it is ever shown that they become more aggressively restrictive to what is hosted on their platform - but for the most part you seem to be given a wide berth to upload what you wish. The worst I've seen so far is that their video promotion algorithm can be used to "shadow ban".. but I personally believe they have every right to decide how their internal advertisements work. There is also still the free and open internet as a general platform. Torrents and direct downloads are available as a distribution method if there is truly no other platform willing to host your media.

colejohnson66 6y ago
> For the most part Youtube has been fairly lenient as to which accounts get heavily moderated and/or removed. Ah yes, because people have never had their entire Google account terminated because they posted one too many emojis in a chat... https://9to5google.com/2019/11/09/google-account-bans-youtube-emote-spam-markiplier/ https://9to5google.com/2019/11/09/google-account-bans-youtub...
CapricornNoble 6y ago
Nobody complains when the most blatant kooks get disappeared (Alex Jones), but it's absolutely affecting more mainstream content creators, who can't even produce opinion pieces reporting on related news without their videos getting deleted or forced into Private. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO4cPAm7QkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO4cPAm7QkQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30g_pIVUGpQ&t=814s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30g_pIVUGpQ&t=814s