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Why You Should Quit YouTube - Part 5: The Real Enemy Has Become Sanity of Users

Series parts:

  1. New Series: Why People Everywhere Should Quit YouTube
  2. YouTube's New Management: Time's Up, Start Paying and Watch Ads, Don't Use Free Software
  3. Why You Should Quit YouTube - Part 3: Google Exploits Creators, It'll Get Even Worse
  4. Why You Should Quit YouTube - Part 4: Financial Crunch Time
  5. YOU ARE HERE ☞ The Real Enemy Has Become Sanity of Users


Summary: YouTube is becoming a force of mental occupation and oppression; it's important to recognise that the mission of YouTube is changing, as many channels are banned for political reasons (purely geopolitical purposes) and control is gradually taken away from users of the platform

THE previous part, complete with the video "YouTube Wants Nothing But Money", discussed the aspiration at Google to finally make YouTube profitable, mostly through ads. Because yes, there are reasons to believe that YouTube was never profitable and it was instead focused on building and maintaining near-monopoly.

There are meanwhile two updates about YouTube that we've included in Daily Links. They are saying that "Google had delisted the app Downloader from the Play Store after a DMCA notice" [1] and "Maria Schneider's lawsuit against YouTube would've culminated in a jury trial today after almost three years of litigation." [2]

"The US government stands to gain from controlling what people can/cannot publish, watch, not to mention what gets promoted or goes "viral". The Chinese government figured this out as well."YouTube is having issues and those issues, in turn, make life very hard for "creators" and spectators. YouTube is under immense pressure to justify itself as a business because of the tough economic times. Its revenue shrank despite bombarding users with more and more ads people cannot skip.

Truth be told, YouTube's censorship and propaganda aspects are the real models. The US government stands to gain from controlling what people can/cannot publish, watch, not to mention what gets promoted or goes "viral". The Chinese government figured this out as well.

It is worth noting that owing to social control media YouTube isn't really competing with its old and more "traditional" rivals. It is competing with TikTok and many new uploads to YouTube are just "#shorts" from TikTok, i.e. worthless junk in large quantities. TikTok is a bundle of threats or a multi-layered attack vector. Aside from phone, network and users we have "app", centralisation/authority and forces of mental occupation. The best way we can conceptualise this is a operant conditioning chamber, also known as a Skinner box. We know that Richard Stallman (rms) "gets" it when it comes to such things because spoke about it last week in Italy.

References



  1. Google Finally Restores ‘Downloader’ App To Store

    A couple of weeks back, we discussed how Google had delisted the app Downloader from the Play Store after a DMCA notice was issued by a firm representing several Israeli TV networks. The problem with all of this is simple: Downloader doesn’t have anything to do with copyright infringement or piracy. All it does is combine a file manager and basic web browser. The DMCA notice centered on the latter, complaining that users could get to piracy sites from the browser. You know, just like you can from any browser.



  2. No Trial Today or Ever: YouTube Content ID Lawsuit Dismissed at 11th Hour

    Had everything gone to plan, Maria Schneider's lawsuit against YouTube would've culminated in a jury trial today after almost three years of litigation. The lawsuit began with claims of mass copyright infringement on YouTube, failure to terminate repeat infringers, and denial of access to piracy mitigation tool Content ID. It ended Sunday with the dismissal of the entire case and an agreement that it will never see a courtroom again.



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