YouTube is cleaning up and it wants your help! by Lisa Vaas.
From the post:
Google is well aware that the hair-raising comments of YouTube users have turned the service into a fright fest.
It’s tried to drain the swamp. In February 2015, for example, it created a kid-safe app that would keep things like, oh, say, racist/anti-Semitic/homophobic comments or zombies from scaring the bejeezus out of young YouTubers.
Now, Google’s trying something new: it’s soliciting “YouTube Heroes” to don their mental hazmat suits and dive in to do some cleanup.
You work hard to make YouTube better for everyone… and like all heroes, you deserve a place to call home.
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Google has renamed the firemen of Fahrenheit 451 to YouTube Heroes.
Positive names cannot change the fact that censors by any name, are in fact just that, censors.
Google has taken censorship to a new level in soliciting the participation of the close-minded, the intolerant, the bigoted, the fearful, etc., from across the reach of the Internet, to censor YouTube.
Google does own YouTube and if it wants to turn it into a pasty gray pot of safe gruel, it certainly can do so.
As censors flood into YouTube, free thinkers, explorers, users who prefer new ideas over pablum, need to flood out of YouTube.
Ad revenue needs to fall as this ill-advised campaign, “come be a YouTube censor” succeeds.
Only falling ad revenue will stop this foray into the folly of censorship by Google.
First steps:
- Don’t post videos to Google.
- Avoid watching videos on Google as much as possible.
- Urge other to not post/use YouTube.
- Post videos to other venues.
- Speak out against YouTube censorship.
- Urge YouTube authors to post/repost elsewhere
“Safe place” means a place safe from content control at the whim and caprice of governments, corporations and even other individuals.
What’s so hard to “get” about that?