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Sunbourn
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Youtube boycot
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Re: Youtube boycot
Google owns the site. So they can do whatever the fuck they want with it. Youtube is INTERNATIONAL. Free speech really only applies in America. Idiots fucking forgot.
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I am definitely doing this, thanks for posting it.
<sarcasm>And while ya'll are boycotting, why not try out a different version of youtube? http://www.godtube.com/ </sarcasm>
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Sunbourn
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Re: Youtube boycot
Oni-Chiisu Wrote:Google owns the site. So they can do whatever the fuck they want with it. Youtube is INTERNATIONAL. Free speech really only applies in America. Idiots fucking forgot.
Yes, but there is nothing wrong with trying to get free speech on youtube.
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Re: Youtube boycot
MSN Wrote:Sour Drop | Chris says:
Youtube protest lol.
Sour Drop | Chris says:
If I can still get to my videos I DONT GIVE A FUCK.
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Oni-Chiisu Wrote:MSN Wrote:Sour Drop | Chris says:
Youtube protest lol.
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If I can still get to my videos I DONT GIVE A FUCK.
Don't you believe people should have the right to make their videos public, I mean, if they are good why not? Instead, the are being "algarithmicaly demoted" (whatever the fuck that means).
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Children and Blog mommies exist. But yeah, I'm starting to get it. Sefam summed it up nicely.
MSN Wrote:KitsuneSefam says:
I guess
KitsuneSefam says:
About Youtube changing it's laws to remove stuff THEY don't want to see
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This is soooooooo long overdue. Pretty much every change to the site has been for the worse. No matter what they do and when we think that it can't get worse, they alway find a way to make their site even crappier.
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Fire Elf Wrote:This is soooooooo long overdue. Pretty much every change to the site has been for the worse. No matter what they do and when we think that it can't get worse, they alway find a way to make their site even crappier.
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"This video has been removed by the user"
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L Wrote:Oni-Chiisu Wrote:MSN Wrote:Sour Drop | Chris says:
Youtube protest lol.
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If I can still get to my videos I DONT GIVE A FUCK.
Don't you believe people should have the right to make their videos public, I mean, if they are good why not? Instead, the are being "algarithmicaly demoted" (whatever the fuck that means).
Sure. But you don't need youtube to do it. The fact is, they're a privately owned company, and corporations aren't required to respect the free speech rights of thier employees (in this case youtube vloggers) There are plenty of other sites out there like blogtv, where you can host your programs, and be as profane as you want.
All youtube is doing is killing their supply of revenue. Most of the people who would be effected by this new policy have the most subscribers and thus bring in the most money. If They leave and go to other media providers, then all youtube will be left with is video's about peoples cats, fanvids, and crappy movie reviews. They'll lose the business they tried to keep in the first place.
I say let them go for it.
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OH NO SOME YOUTUBE VIDEOS MIGHT HAVE SWEARWORDS
That sucks. Srsly, they'll punish people from using FUCK or SHIT, but terrorist nutters on YT canstill get away with using "kaffir" which in the middle east has the same effect as "nigger" over here. But they won't get punished, will they? No. I didn't think so.
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Just get over it and move on to the next big internet video sharing site. The internet is VERY young compared to world industry and this happens all the time. A really cool company with a really cool concept makes a product. It sells great, the owner is nice, it's small time and everyone's friends. Fast forward, that old owner wants to retire and sells the business. It inevitably ends up in the hands of douche-bags.
They never had a relationship with you, don't care about you, and have no intimate contact with anything. They batten down the hatches in the name of a higher profit, charge you more for that thing they were selling and eventually people move on after that business is finished shooting itself in the foot. This will happen in the internet as well. Youtube was cool, time to move on.
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I'll have to say you're right, Whistler.
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hey guys I have a better idea.how about we make mutiple accounts and start uploading shit loads of porn,profanity, etc. whatever youtube doesn't like? anybody with me?I doubt it will actually do anything but I want to do it just for the fun of it.
Telling people to do something without giving a reason compels them to rebel not to obey-Avenger
We need to learn not to be afraid of making mistakes all the time-Avenger
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Whistler Wrote:They batten down the hatches in the name of a higher profit, charge you more for that thing they were selling and eventually people move on after that business is finished shooting itself in the foot. This will happen in the internet as well. Youtube was cool, time to move on.
No, not time to move on. If it's going to happen to the internet too, then we can't just keep running away to the next big thing and waiting for it to fall. Eventually there will be no outlet for free communiction left to flee to. What then?
I think Buenaventura Durruti is a pretty cool guy. eh kills fascists and doesnt afraid of ruins.
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Avenger Wrote:hey guys I have a better idea.how about we make mutiple accounts and start uploading shit loads of porn,profanity, etc. whatever youtube doesn't like? anybody with me?I doubt it will actually do anything but I want to do it just for the fun of it.
Whenever I've done that in the past it gets deleted within 10 views.
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