https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/mq00n9/cannot_post_to_youtube_for_a_week_got_a_strike/ Press J to jump to the feed. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts [ ] Log InSign Up User account menu 2.3k Cannot post to YouTube for a week (got a strike) because I included link to legitimate PhD research on KRACK WPA2 vulnerability [renderTimi] Close 2.3k Posted by1 day ago Bravo!Wait What?Helpful4Wholesome6Silver5Hugz6 Cannot post to YouTube for a week (got a strike) because I included link to legitimate PhD research on KRACK WPA2 vulnerability [renderTimi] Hey guys, I am a privacy and security researcher and content creator on YouTube and PeerTube. You have likely seen some of my content on Privacy Tools' PeerTube channel (which appears to be down this morning). Last time I reached out, I had received a first strike on YouTube for including a link to reference material teaching people how to use GnuPG to encrypt emails (in other words to communicate with each other privately). Hi Sun Knudsen, Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our harmful and dangerous policy. Thankfully, this was a warning strike so besides feeling censored and controlled for no valid reason (using GnuPG is neither harmful or dangerous), I was able to continue posting content. I appealed on December 10th 2020 and never heard back to this day. This time is different in one significant way: I am no longer able to post content for a week. I know many viewers of the privacy guides are also members of the r/ privacy community here on Reddit. Heads-up: I will likely not be able to post to YouTube for a week and if you enjoy the privacy guides series, you should follow me on PeerTube in case my channel gets closed by YouTube. Sadly, this first consequential strike hurts... it's unbelievable the amount of work that is invested into channels like mine. The culprit one may ask? Including a link to https:// www.krackattacks.com/, a legitimate website published by postdoctoral security researchers disclosing their research on key reinstallation attacks that allow attackers to break WPA2 (published after given a heads-up to operating system developers and hardware manufacturers). The link was part of the description of the "Why we can't trust our home or any other wireless network" episode. Anyhow, I truly believe humanity has to rollback to operating at a human scale. Using algorithms to flag content is totally fine... problem is when humans cannot interact with humans anymore and AI gets to chose what is right and wrong. 140 comments share save hide report 99% Upvoted Log in or sign up to leave a commentLog InSign Up Sort by best View discussions in 6 other communities [renderTimi] level 1 1 day ago * edited 1 day ago Helpful Recommendation: make a blog, include all links in a blog post belonging to each video, link to that post from youtube. It's cumbersome and viewers need to make 2 clicks but better than a ban. On top of that, if you explain in the video why people need to go to your blog and that youtube considers your links as nefarious, the attraction to visit them might be even higher... 672 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 Original Poster1 day ago Great recommendation, thanks! 215 Reply Share ReportSave Continue this thread level 2 1 day ago * edited 3 hours ago Dead on my dude. It's time we stop being internet serfs and have our own stuff 22 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 1 day ago Yes. It seems they scan through the list of links posted in the info section and if they don't like the look of an URL or can't verify if a source is trustworthy within a glance and a few scrolls they will in doubt think it's a harmful link. It's an assumption based on how arbitrary youtube bans have been in the past - i'd really like to see how they actually do it and how much time they allow for review and if a "ban" is then peer reviewed or not by them... 7 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 11 hours ago Make the internet the internet again. Self host blogs, RSS. We need to move users away from the centralized cespool of thought control from Google, Apple, Microsoft, et all. Even reddit has erroded to nothing much than "approved" circle jerks and "censored" thought. 6 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 1 day ago I've seen other channels do this. They had to retroactively edit some of their videos. 12 Reply Share ReportSave Continue this thread level 2 10 hours ago Personally I would much prefer a blog post that has an embedded video over a YouTube video with a blog's worth of content stuffed into the description. The only advantage YouTube has over a blog is discoverability. Once I've found you I'd be delighted to discover a well thought out blog post (and maybe I can read the content and skip most of the video!) 3 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 1 day ago its a matter of time till they start scanning the links on the linked sites. how many layers deep can they go? :) 3 Reply Share ReportSave Continue this thread level 2 12 hours ago And also it removes valuable content from YouTube and onto your own page. For textual content that doesn't generate huge traffic there's no need to feed the machine that bites you. 2 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 11 hours ago That is a good way until Youtube decides the blog is nefarious and then the cycle begins again. 0 Reply Share ReportSave level 1 1 day ago I hope things like this do not stop you from posting your content. 161 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 Original Poster1 day ago Thanks for the push! Trying my best to keep moral up... but these roadblocks are hard. 87 Reply Share ReportSave Continue this thread level 1 1 day ago I like LBRY/Odysee.com. I think your content would be appreciated over on Odysee. 50 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 1 day ago They have channel cloning feature as well, it automatically downloads all your videos from YouTube and metadata. 21 Reply Share ReportSave level 1 1 day ago Never heard of you until today. That said, I'm really sorry to hear that. It's ridiculous! I'm going to check out your content now. I'm always interested in learning about privacy, technology, etc. Best of luck. 56 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 Original Poster1 day ago Thanks for the push! 21 Reply Share ReportSave Continue this thread level 2 1 day ago It's good that there are platforms where Google doesn't have jurisdiction 6 Reply Share ReportSave level 1 1 day ago Irrelevant but relevant: I was terminated and banned from YouTube for posting a video of me from the knee down, changing into a pair of shoes, reviewing them, and changing back. Their TOS or "community guidelines" are BS that they don't abide by, they will ban you regardless of whether you've actually violated anything in any way and I think it ought to be illegal. 17 Reply Share ReportSave level 2 1 day ago Unless you're a child predator, then they won't ban you at all even though multiple people are reporting your channel multiple times over the course of several weeks. 0 Reply Share ReportSave View Entire Discussion (140 Comments) More posts from the privacy community Continue browsing in r/privacy Subreddit Icon r/privacy The intersection of technology, privacy, and freedom in a digital world. 1.2m Members 2.2k Online --------------------------------------------------------------------- Created Mar 21, 2008 Join helpReddit AppReddit coinsReddit premiumReddit gifts aboutcareerspressadvertiseblogTermsContent policyPrivacy policyMod policy Reddit Inc (c) 2021. All rights reserved Back to Top