Wednesday, December 10, 2008

YouTube censorship is so Rude

Everyone who uses YouTube should read their new rules. They are trying to censor not only the people who make videos, but even people who watch the videos made by the people who make the videos! That is, YouTube wants to modify video 'hits' or the number of times a video is watched. If they change these numbers, they just plain end up lying.

If you check out the link, you will see the mass amounts of negative criticism about what they wish to do. I also enjoyed two video comments by Thundeff00t and TheAmazingAtheist.

I posted some comments on their site too, but they are probably unreadable in the disorganized mess of comments.

Hey at least YouTube is not censoring people's disapproval.

I have some compromise ideas: keep the new rules, but do not lie to us.

- At the very least, the new profanity rules should not apply to 'old' videos. - And I also don't know what 'algorithmically demoted' means, but YouTube should state numerically how ratings will be penalized. No more than 5 bleeps per minute or no bleeps at all?

-And most importantly, do not try to manipulate the # times watched scales. The compromise: age restriction.

So what happens if YouTube does not at least accept possible compromises? Well, it is always possible to create a 'separate' indexing site to independently maintain popularity. This way, you enter and view videos exclusively through this other site and 'hits' are tracked automatically, without YouTube's interference. Someone just has to make it.

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