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Youtube vs free speech
Some time ago I instigated an action against youtube by releasing the videos called Youtube versus the Users Part 1, 2 and 3. The videos all got 10s of thousands of hits and were mirrored by those who supported the cause hundreds of times. Now if you type the exact title into the youtube search engine, I get nothing at all. I have talked to people all over the world and this is about what 50 % of the people find. This is a pretty Orwellian re-write of history, and there is only one appropriate action that anyone who desires to protect free speech could engage in, and thats to call bullshit on youtube. However this pattern is something that is of wider concern. Youtube has effectively a monopoly on the user based video market. The fact that they are willing to manipulate that system to their advantage opens essentially establishes this as a source of corruption waiting to emerge. Some form of oversight is required. As users, one mechanism by which you can apply pressure on youtube is by videos such as this. In essence keeping youtube on its toes by ensuring that they realize that there are many vigilant eyes on them, who will cause a public relations disaster for them if they are willing to bastardize the fair and level playing field for their financial gain. I think it very likely that youtubes beta channels also border on market abuse. They have taken a user base that was built up on essentially viral dendritic navigation and morphed it into something that looks very …
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Dear Sir, you are right in your convictions, and I applaud you.
The funny thing is that it also seems that YouTube is trying to get rid of their complaints system.
Great vid, I learned alot.
if only we could stop people posting videos of their fucking cats ALONE..and wasting the internet….theyd make a profit surely…
OMG!!! i have the same exact laptop as you do!!! stickers and all!!! mine’s 18.4 inch monitor , and it has the cinedash touch controls, but it doesnt have those tiny lights above the keyboard tho.
Thank you for posting this.
Youtube and google video are resetting counters, and removing videos, on what they choose.
For example: see the video called North Tower Exploding. it had almost one million hits.. now it shows some tiny number. Same thing with Jim Hoffman’s videos, reset counters. I guess anything they find offensive is getting edited, how disgusting of them. Hopefully others will come along and do it better and we can all stop using these censoring assholes.
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen…
Blame google not youtube, those capitalist whores
Omg, I directly had to think at this video as I saw the newest changes );
What can a user do?
Hmm, that is my worry, but even right now there is no great alternative to youtube and google, normally they’re just the best );
I tried out some other search engines especially, but not really successful ..
despite the fact that the last 10 comments are not shown anymore, it worked fine:
as I typed: “youtube ver” it showed underneath the search bar, and as I clicked it your video came on place 2
Greedy bastards. Keep an eye on these pricks
Hey, I live in California in the U.S. and I just decided to see if YT got this settled out. Apparently only about ten videos actually feature the videos pertaining to the content of which I searched. Everything else was mostly garbage from MMO’s to strategy games you name it. It would appear that YT still hasn’t fixed this. It also looks like they have been taking some views away from this video, cause I can’t imagine this video only getting 90k views and 8k ratings.
@Hawthorne66 indeed
Very well said!
Very well said! 8 )
Very well said 8 )
Agreed – I found your clips – but not mine – LOL. About the beta channels, they aren’t beta anymore but they still suck. Another reason why they suck is, that similar to ebay, many applications are now in flash and it slows everything down, specially during peak hours, sometimes I can’t even navigate back and forward.When the new “beta ebay” was forced on us, everyone hated it instantly.
Calgary, Alberta Canada. Part 1,2,3 are all showing up for me.
This evil corporation has provided a voice to a variety of opinions. It’s a unique marketplace of ideas that did not exist before. They even let people post shit that criticizes them (like this). They’re so ornery!
Holy fucking shit.
i kinda knew some of this stuff already . . . . never really thought i’d find this vid . . . . bottom line is youtube can do what they want . . .
usualy when youtube does this I respond…I call all my friends that have youtube acc. most of them have at least two youtube acc. some have 10-15 acc. , I send them my banned vid and the magic begins…
Old case, more or less resolved.
This video is from october ’09, but as TF said, we must be perpetually on guard, and stand together.
If we don’t, we’ll be hung one by one.
beautifully said.
I am from Canada. I found one posted by you, and one result each for the other 2 parts mirrored by other users. One of those users being dprjones. The other being beautyintheuniverse.
It is a sad state when YouTube has to resort to this kind of action to further its own profit.