The purpose of this video is to raise awareness of the new policies
that YouTube has implemented such as algorithmic demotion of videos
that contain profanities. These policies will no doubt remove
our freedom speech on YouTube because the policies are so vague
that they could be used to demote any video that YouTube personally
doesnt like. What is profanity? What is sexually suggestive? Just
about anything could fall into those categories depending on the
person doing the judging. YouTube is now admitting that they will
fiddle the view counters on such videos in order to keep them
out of the most-viewed lists, regardless of how popular the videos
actually are. However, I know for a fact that theyve been fiddling
the view counters ever since Google took over YouTube. The only
difference now is that theyre admitting it while trying to justify
it. A video that I uploaded two weeks ago received 55 honors within
the first few hours of it being uploaded. Then, in one fell swoop,
YouTube removed every single honor, even though the video had
only been up on YouTube for 18 hours. The removal of these honors
meant that the video no longer appeared in any of the lists. The
video contained no profanity and no sexually suggestive content,
yet Google took it upon themselves to remove it from all of the
lists.
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It is clear that Google is turning YouTube into nothing more
than an extention of daytime mainstream television. Google wants
a YouTube that is completely sanitized of true human expression.
They want a YouTube that suits their advertisers not you and me
- the users. This shows where Google priorities lie. And it is
laughable that they are trying to con us into believing that they
making all these changes in order to make YouTube better for us.
They dont listen to us at all. In YouTubes recent blogs that detail
the changes they have made, they have received over 10,000 negative
comments from people complaining about all the mad changes they
have made. These changes include removing the bulletin boards
from our channels, stopping us from sending videos to more than
one person at a time, and demoting videos that YouTube considers
to be profane. Anything can be considered profane if you choose
to see it as profane. Lets face it, the whole thing is nonsensical
and Google knows it! But they dont want to back down because they
dont have the guts to admit they are wrong, and of course, their
allegance is to their advertisers and not their users. YouTube
has removed a lot of the negative blog comments and they've now
set the comments to "Approval Only". Total Cowards!
So what can we do when Google doesnt respond to our complaints?
Well we have to do something, and the easiest way to send a huge
message to Google by boycotting every product they provide this
includes their search engine, email, maps, etc, etc. We should
also stop using YouTube from December 19th to 21st. I will personally
not use YouTube for at least a week from Dec 19th.
If you value your freedom of speech and expression, and you want
a fair and democratic YouTube, as it was before Google took it
over, then please join us in the YouTube Blackout this Friday
Dec 19th.
