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YouTube announces it'll no longer allow videos containing "hacked information"

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Impossible to enforce consistently. Feels like a way to exclude Wikileaked info in particular.

Oh no, not the site that's been a crowd sourced psy-op since day one.

Conjecture.

I know OP in the tweet mentioned wikileaks but it's not like anything on wikileaks is new or particularly news worthy lately. I'm wondering if it has something to do with the BlueLeaks hack.

Is this also against foreign governments like China committing abuses against peoples?

Just claim anything bad against you was hacked.

Or does this apply to videos Google doesn't like?

According to the statement, it doesn't require that the information was "hacked." It's only used as an example of something they would ban. It also doesn't limit it to one country. If the information would interfere in an election, perhaps even China's democratic centralism, according to this statement, it should be banned.

So any secrets that politicians have been trying to cover up should not be shared on YouTube. Any disclosures of corruption in any government should be kept to another platform. It seems that this would exclude all news organizations from using YouTube to broadcast if enforced fairly, but I would guess that they would use a more narrow definition of "interfere."

I've seen elsewhere that this may be related to the Google Ads policy here:

https://support.google.com/adspolicy/answer/9991623?hl=en&re...

This policy explicitly allows discussion and commentary, just not direct access to information. So news is perfectly acceptable, as long as it doesn't direct people to its sources. This is likely how YouTube will implement the policy as well.

I wonder if policies like this are being put in just to cover platforms' liability coming up to the election, but carries no real teeth.

When are they going to start disallowing imposter Bitcoin scams?

Or is that their bread and butter now?

so if Snowden had waited 7 years and leaked today instead of 2013, then the 100's of thousands of videos about it with billions of views would all be censored by Google?

would every teleconference video with Snowden also be banned?

Google is EVIL and this is all going to backfire in the most spectacular outcome of unintended consequences.

This is ridiculous.

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