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YouTube now bans instructional hacking and phishing
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- Title
- YouTube's 'instructional hacking' ban threatens computer security teachers
- Published
- Jul 3 2019
- Word count
- 498 words
I haven't caught up on all of this yet, but it looks like they got the strike removed from their channel and uploaded the video now: https://twitter.com/KodyKinzie/status/1146625729431404544
That's got to sting for shows like Hak5, pretty sure that they've been around as long as YouTube, and now their no longer allowed on the platform. What constitutes a hack? A hardware project? Homebrew on consoles? Video Game Mods?
Edit for clarification.
What constituents hate speech? Similar issue. Censorship is a very slippery slope. But it's their playground and they get to make the rules.
Which is why you don't argue it based on a slippery slope or based on free speech / censorship, you argue based on the merits of the specific line they draw. Them having the right to make their own rules doesn't mean you can't disagree, it just means you're in the wrong if you say they can't/shouldn't control it at all.
I used to subscribe to this view; but YouTube is a monopoly—one that I consider Google acquired and continues to maintain via mechanisms that I'd consider antitrust—making this rule in my view effectively de facto censorship. It's clearer to me now than it used to be: when a product approaches levels of scale that it becomes a platform (think: App Store, Facebook, Amazon Marketplace), we need to force the companies that run them to play by different rules.
Think about what you just said "we need to force the companies..." That's a terrible idea. (By we I assume you mean the governemnt?)
Let the business succeed or fail based on how the market reacts. Remember myspace, and how absolutely everyone used it? Remember Sears? The market will always work itself out, unless there's some outside force.
I don't agree with emdash in this particular case, but the market often does need forced correction. Remember Standard Oil, or Bell?
YouTube is different though. They don't have a monopoly any more than Reddit does.
This story got a lot of traction overnight in press, such as The Verge, The Register, and some newspapers I never heard about before. So YouTube had to back off and remove the strike.
No links this time, I’m on phone. Cc @Deimos who noticed that the strike was removed.
Oh thanks, I was still looking around for updates.
Do you mind if I edit the link to point to that The Verge article instead, since it includes the tweet and seems to be the best overall summary?
Great, it’ll be much better for anyone coming to this story.
LiveOverflow just posted a video about this issue that I recommend to view, he has pretty interesting opinion.
/r/DataHoarder and /r/ArchiveTeam are working on pulling copies of the most prominent channels if anybody has a few terabytes of storage, an unlimited internet connection and wants to help out.
Does that mean Google Zero videos will have to be taken down as well? I mean, c'mon YouTube.