> I am no longer able to post content for a week.
Honestly, they had it coming.
While "regular people" can be understood to use overtly shitty platforms like youtube, somebody who is a security and privacy researcher has no excuse. They should just avoid platforms with such callously hostile policies. Moreso when there are plenty of sane alternatives like peertube and others.
It's obviously and evidently not about uploading videos, but rather to build and reach a community
Also, it's wrong to accept that these platforms have this kind of influence and we should just avoid them. They're part of the social fabric of our time, and it's our duty to make things better.
This kind of attitude only serves to entrench the problem and make everything worse. Even if you are not personally affected by youtube's damaging policies, just using the platform is an insulting lack of respect towards other people who are. What ever happened to "be the change you want to see in the world"? Any such change must be led by knowledgeable people like this security researcher. I hope that this ban serves Sun Knudsen (who already publishes their videos on peertube) to lead more and more people out of this and other user-hostile platforms, until these platforms finally turn into a cesspool of content-free "influencers".
Eventually even Google in general.
MySpace was part of the social fabric, too, at one point.
No one is too big to fail or at least become irrelevant. No one is sacred.
Is this true? There's almost no discoverability on YouTube imo. You could just push people towards your privately hosted platforms.