YouTube Is Investing $5 Million Into "Creators For Change"

MavericK said:
And yet, it's likely not a single person here will stop using YouTube.
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I have pretty much stopped using YouTube. I can hardly ever find any video that interests me anymore and went through a period of time when even the content creators I was subscribed to weren't showing up in my subscription list. I had to go directly to their page to see their videos. So yeah I basically just stopped using it. Why bother it doesn't work.
 
Google gives money to passive/aggressive thumb-suckers, group that hates passive/aggressive thumb-suckers immediately starts sucking their thumbs passive/aggressively on Hard Forum.

I love the internet.
 
I don't care for "political correctness" (lets not call that behavior/viewpoint SJW - we already have "political correctness/PC" and the negative association of social justice with the types of people deemed "SJW" is harmful to everyone) , despite the fact that my politics lean significantly to the left both socially and economically.

One thing I've become very worried about in the past few years is the increasing pressure to basically limit discourse entirely for various reasons. Left and right wing subgroups usually have different targets and justifications, but are equally troublesome on a philosophical and policy-related level. In this regard, what Google/YouTube is doing here is an improvement. Google/YouTube is simply offering a reward for content that is appealing, same as any online entity when it comes to monetization. Its no different in principle or practice in and of itself from say... [H] deciding to make a "We love [H]ardcore PC Creators " program where those who make videos of tutorials etc... for overclocking, modding, reviewing hardware etc.. could opt in and if selected gain revenue paid out of a fund set aside for the purpose. Or Mozilla contributing to videos that focus on open source software and other elements of their values. Now, there's an argument to be made for the power of monolithic entities (I find Facebook and Twitter to be the biggest issues when it comes to means of communications, with Google and Amazon slightly lower down this list in this regard but equally high in terms of things like data mining/retaining), but that's a separate discussion.
 
Just created a channel named "Counter Hate and Promote Tolerance"... Will you monetize me now?

I think that is what most people are pissed about. I have a Youtube channel that I mainly share stuff with family, and lately I have been getting "sub for sub requests" from people who need to cross the new guidelines threshold. Sure, me subscribing to these people might get them to the subscriber requirement, but since I wouldn't be actually watching their crap, they aren't going to meet the watch time requirements so....
 
Pretty sure that if they didn't re-invest in the program it would have been all over those circles that YouTube was promoting hate and intolerance.
 
Many of the replies in this thread are the exact reason youtube does this ....
 
Draax said:
Many of the replies in this thread are the exact reason youtube does this ....
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Bullshit. I dont see any hate speech here. I havent seen any comments that attack anyone on attributes such as race, religion, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, or gender.

What I see is people complaining that this will be used to silence their viewpoints.
 
Whole lot of people losing their shit over this.

Not all content is entitled to funding/monetization. Just because seemingly everything was eligible before "adpocalypse" doesn't mean ads should ever have been placed on certain content. I've said it before and I'll say it again, the linking of X content to Y brands advertising was clearly not well thought out prior to recent changes, that doesn't justify their existence prior to these recent change or entitle any content to continued monetization.

Lots of talk about censorship and banning, can someone give an example of YT closing an account or video that isn't disallowed in the TOS/guidelines?

Not being able to monetize is not silencing viewpoints or censorship.
 
I actually got money for my anti-hate video entitled "Why white men are the cause of all our problems: Let's kill them and all their children"
 
increasingly online private spaces (youtube, facebook..etc) are talking the place of the town square as far as public discourse goes.. increasingly we see these private corporate spaces limiting access to certain ideas and views ..

given the changing technological landscape allowing corporations to control what is open to discussion is a pretty terrible thing... I would like to see some public sites set up that would allow access to all views ...that would be allowed in the town square setting..
 
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