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FTA: “And then they found some video from eight years ago, that they flagged, took that down, and that was our third strike,” he explained. “And they took down
by squarefoot 5y ago
FTA: “And then they found some video from eight years ago, that they flagged, took that down, and that was our third strike,” he explained. “And they took down our entire account.”
That is not like the take down algorithm is being triggered by something you just posted, that sounds just like someone deciding to look in your garbage bins to find anything to be used against you. It stinks a lot, and I don't mean the garbage.
" ... the deletion of the site’s channel erases a deep, years-long archive of video clips—effectively eliminating a resource for understanding and exposing right-wing extremism."
Well, that one is 100% their fault. Never, ever, ever, rely on any other service for keeping data other than your own backups. Especially when the party involved in keeping your data is also the same one who can wipe it from existence if anyone with deep enough pockets or connections says so.
- agentdrtran 5y agoWhat other sites are willing to store and easily distribute years of HD video for free?
- squarefoot 5y agoThey wrote about losing a deep, years-long archive of video clips. That sounds a lot like they had no backups, not just losing the published ones.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThat's not actually what they said. > While Right Wing Watch had essentially moved away from regularly posting its videos to YouTube over the past year, as Mantyla noted, the deletion of the site’s channel erases a deep, years-long archive of video clips—effectively eliminating a resource for understanding and exposing right-wing extremism. Nothing in here says "we lost our only copies of the videos", just that the resource is now gone from the Internet, and that users currently can't get at it.
- squarefoot 5y agoWhat prevents them from uploading the videos to a different service like Vimeo, Odysee, Archive.org etc. then? They could create a new YT account with the sole purpose of sending people to a video hosted elsewhere. A bit cumbersome, but better than nothing, and would force YT to prohibit links in YT descriptions, which would be anti-competitive.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThey could, but it looks like waiting a few hours did the trick. https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840 https://twitter.com/GerritD/status/1409608525601443840
- wilg 5y agoThey do host them elsewhere, because of issues with YouTube moderation. https://vimeo.com/user5657100 https://vimeo.com/user5657100
- rbanffy 5y ago> sounds just like someone deciding to look in your garbage bins to find anything to be used against you. This is a trick I’ve seen right wingers employing over and over. Edit: burn, karma, burn!