YouTube's mistaken deletion of a channel belonging to UK news outlet Novara Media draws criticism over the company's power as a content regulator
or mistakenly enforced. https://www.nytimes.com/... @nytimes : Novara spent years using YouTube to attract more than 170,000 subscribers for its left-leaning coverage of issues like climate change, capitalism and social policy. Then its channel was deleted by YouTube, apparently by mistake. https://www.nytimes.com/... @news_maker : NYT upset liberal channel got banned on YT. https://www.nytimes.com/... Nick Gillespie / @nickgillespie : 1. @YouTube et al should do as little gatekeeping as possible & instead empower users to create the experience they want online via filtering, blocking, muting, and the like. 2. Big-tech bureaucracy rivals the government's in causing frustration. https://www.nytimes.com/... Jesse Walker / @notjessewalker : “The volume of wrongful takedowns is likely to increase as internet platforms face pressure from policymakers....Under a draft law in Britain, companies could face billions of dollars worth of fines for not deleting content considered ‘legal but harmful.’” https://www.nytimes.com/... Dave Jones / @eevblog : Preventing accidental deletion of Youtube channels is NOT rocket science. If you reach say 100k subs and get your award then those channel get PROTECTED. Only way to delete it is for the CEO to push the button personally. Hardly a burden in that case. https://www.nytimes.com/... Ash Sarkar / @ayocaesar : YouTube deleted our account because of “human error”. But whether cock-up or conspiracy, our experience at Novara Media demonstrates the unconscionable power tech giants wield over journalism - and the urgent need for better regulation. https://www.nytimes.com/... Adam Satariano / @satariano : YouTube deletes nearly 2,000 channels every hour. I wrote about what happened this week to an online news outlet in London that got mistakenly snagged. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Every hour, YouTube deletes nearly 2,000 channels, @satariano writes. But the rules are opaque and sometimes arbitrarily enforced — or mistakenly enforced. https://www.nytimes.com/...
Novara spent years using YouTube to attract more than 170,000 subscribers for its left-leaning coverage of issues like climate change, capitalism and social policy. Then its channel was deleted by YouTube, apparently by mistake. https://www.nytimes.com/...
YouTube deletes nearly 2,000 channels every hour. I wrote about what happened this week to an online news outlet in London that got mistakenly snagged. https://www.nytimes.com/...
1. @YouTube et al should do as little gatekeeping as possible & instead empower users to create the experience they want online via filtering, blocking, muting, and the like. 2. Big-tech bureaucracy rivals the government's in causing frustration. https://www.nytimes.com/...
“The volume of wrongful takedowns is likely to increase as internet platforms face pressure from policymakers....Under a draft law in Britain, companies could face billions of dollars worth of fines for not deleting content considered ‘legal but harmful.’” https://www.nytimes.com…
Preventing accidental deletion of Youtube channels is NOT rocket science. If you reach say 100k subs and get your award then those channel get PROTECTED. Only way to delete it is for the CEO to push the button personally. Hardly a burden in that case. https://www.nytimes.com/...
YouTube deleted our account because of “human error”. But whether cock-up or conspiracy, our experience at Novara Media demonstrates the unconscionable power tech giants wield over journalism - and the urgent need for better regulation. https://www.nytimes.com/...