It looks like YouTube has undergone a face lift, with a brand new look and feel.
But the aesthetics can’t hide the fact something very rotten is still going on there.
About a month after they took down my Roger Waters video as “hate speech” – only to reinstate it a week later – they’ve now done it again, this time regarding a Hamas video I uploaded for this post.
Is this part of a campaign to target pro-Israel accounts? Or is it YouTube trying to crack down on videos from terrorists? Given it is the raw video without commentary, I accept if they want to remove it (although I think it is a mistake since exposing Hamas’ hatred and lies to as many people as possible is important). But to issue a strike against my account, as if I support the content of the video (note the video title) – that’s just wrong.
I have appealed and we’ll see if that does anything. I would hate to lose the 170+ videos with combined views of over 1.2 million.
Assuming that the market remains free and not subject to government thought dictates, alternatives are bound to spring up sooner or later to take advantage of niches that the mainstream, such as Google/YouTube, have forsaken in their political correctness. It’s how a free market economy works. Competition is the best regulator.
I’m not a fan of the redesign at all. You see far fewer videos at once laid out before you.
Vimeo works pretty well, and seems to be less censorship-happy (so far).
its the latter. and as with all bots, they sometimes make mistakes