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From a pure business perspective this should be counter to YT's interests. Really hoping someone sees this here who can help. Watching this guy has supplanted t
by ianai 3y ago
From a pure business perspective this should be counter to YT's interests. Really hoping someone sees this here who can help. Watching this guy has supplanted the normal morning shows for me. Essentially a good aggregator of open source info from the Russian invasion of Ukraine with an eye towards accuracy. But he's clearly being targeted by hostile propaganda and influence campaigns.
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I had a year of absolutely no issues with advertising until recently, when it started to become more difficult to get all of my videos accepted for advertising revenue. My suspicions were that Russian bad-faith actors had been reporting my channel en masse such that the channel became flagged to YouTube, who gave it extra special attention with their bots.
Over the last week, it has now got to the point where every single one of my videos is restricted. (...)
From what I can gather, this is an ongoing challenge for virtually all pro-Ukrainian YouTube channels. It appears that pro-Russian channels can show all sorts of morally dubious footage and still get advertising revenue, but pro-Ukrainian channels are hammered by YouTube restrictions.
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- verdverm 3y agoWhy do you think pro-Russian channels have a different fate for monetization? --- Having watched this particular YT channel for a stint, I stopped because it was full of speculation and bias. The pro-X sides all show the same content and speculate wildly, only show you bias confirming content. These daily recap channels are all pretty much for war porn addicts at this point. I maintain a playlist of what I think are high-quality discussions and conversations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFDNgGI8RJ_c3mSs_hrUR4HvuZNdfgn-9 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFDNgGI8RJ_c3mSs_hrUR...
- reducesuffering 3y ago> full of speculation and bias > proceeds to recommend John Mearsheimer
- verdverm 3y agoMearsheimer is awful, I agree, don't recall why that one was added early on and/or not removed I do think it's important to hear what he says so we know what ideas are being promoted by him that we need to refute. Steven Kotkin has some good segments where he puts JM's ideas where they belong. Still, there is a vast difference between JM and the daily war porn channels
- ianai 3y agoATP is not war porn. The MSM has dropped the ball on reporting on Russian state terrorism and its invasion of Ukraine. You have to go to open sources to have any decent idea whats going on there day to day. Or watch someone like ATP who aggregates it and explains why he shows what he shows (or doesn’t). One of his sources, Andrew Perpetua, specifically watches w mix of 2/3 Russian coverage and 1/3 Ukrainian to cut out the noise-as well as just looking at satellite images on a live stream. Not war porn. He lists the evidence for why he thinks he’s being targeted in the article.
- verdverm 3y agoI watched ATP for a while and would most certainly put it in with the war porn category, though not as bad as most. You don't have to show the worst videos to still be in the (soft) war porn category. He's definitely a biased source like most. I get that you want people to think differently about ATP, but as a former daily viewer, I'm telling you why I left. It's a waste of my time and there are better sources for better discussions.