YouTube is Not the Internet but She Has a Point

well yea such things are always happening and we should expect it….

few months ago i had a similar post on my blog referring to fakebook people…. Where i did advice that th ebest way is to use a personal blog, promote it make it stronger, support it with these tools, and always keep a local backup.

another good and lovely post by you chris :)

cheers,
Jean.

I don’t know why YouTube shut down this account, from the film in question it seems they must have some seriously paranoid execs if they think this could harm them, but I haven’t seen any of the other films in the account so I’m not ready to judge based on this alone.

But, the bigger points here are about content ownership and the potential impact of loss of a given service to your organisation. As far as content ownership goes the best thing by far you can do is slap a Creative Commons license on everything you ever produce and then give it all away – allow it to be remixed, mashed up etc. Why? If you voluntarily give permission for your work to be used you are more likely to be accredited and get your personal brand spread. Secondly do you really think any kind of license is going to stop the unscrupulous from taking your work and doing whaterver they like to it? If they do can you find them? And do you have the resource to prosecute them? Face it, what you put in the public domain whether on a blog or on YouTube or wherever no longer belongs to you – you have given it away.

Secondly is the issue of what happens if google pull the plug tomorrow? Well obviously back ups are a good idea. But, is the server in your office, or the harddrive in your laptop really more reliable than all of googles servers? These people have back up procedures for their back up procedures. Disclosure – I am a fan. I have recently put everything I can onto the cloud via google apps. The cost saving compared with my previous inhouse server based MS Exchange systems measure in £thousands annually and I’ve previously had to restore everything from tape backup when my server blew up – it’s not fun! I can honestly say I am looking forward to the day when I can plug a relatively dumb terminal into the internet and do all the work remotely.

Of course sometimes accounts will get closed down by heavy handed censors, of course there are lowlifes out there who will rip off your work, of course you take risks when you put yourself out in the public domain of social media – but the alternative is the electronic equivalent of agrophobia – do you really want to stay in your own house for the rest of your life?

I don’t know why YouTube shut down this account, from the film in question it seems they must have some seriously paranoid execs if they think this could harm them, but I haven’t seen any of the other films in the account so I’m not ready to judge based on this alone.

But, the bigger points here are about content ownership and the potential impact of loss of a given service to your organisation. As far as content ownership goes the best thing by far you can do is slap a Creative Commons license on everything you ever produce and then give it all away – allow it to be remixed, mashed up etc. Why? If you voluntarily give permission for your work to be used you are more likely to be accredited and get your personal brand spread. Secondly do you really think any kind of license is going to stop the unscrupulous from taking your work and doing whaterver they like to it? If they do can you find them? And do you have the resource to prosecute them? Face it, what you put in the public domain whether on a blog or on YouTube or wherever no longer belongs to you – you have given it away.

Secondly is the issue of what happens if google pull the plug tomorrow? Well obviously back ups are a good idea. But, is the server in your office, or the harddrive in your laptop really more reliable than all of googles servers? These people have back up procedures for their back up procedures. Disclosure – I am a fan. I have recently put everything I can onto the cloud via google apps. The cost saving compared with my previous inhouse server based MS Exchange systems measure in £thousands annually and I’ve previously had to restore everything from tape backup when my server blew up – it’s not fun! I can honestly say I am looking forward to the day when I can plug a relatively dumb terminal into the internet and do all the work remotely.

Of course sometimes accounts will get closed down by heavy handed censors, of course there are lowlifes out there who will rip off your work, of course you take risks when you put yourself out in the public domain of social media – but the alternative is the electronic equivalent of agrophobia – do you really want to stay in your own house for the rest of your life?

Let the market decide. If YouTube becomes vanilla (or, like mainstream media, safely blood red), that’s a market opportunity for an ACTUAL “freedom of speech” site.

Keep in mind that YouTube was valued at so many billions of dollars because of the likelihood of working with advertisers. Advertisers don’t like unsafe, unpredictable entities. The more “free” the service, the less valuable it is to big business.

Google, gmail, YouTube, Facebook – are all seeking control and $$$. Don’t just rage against their censorship and control – start your own website. People vote with their support and their dollars. If you don’t like it – don’t use it. Find a service – like Viemo or some other less cluttered server where quality and intellectual exploration is welcomed.

Corporate communism is real. Rense.com, PrisonPlanet.com and other sites like them are real and spreading a message too few want to hear. It’s here. It’s coming. It’s going to get bigger. Follow the money. Tell advertisers you WANT what YouTube is censoring. If you’re an advertiser tell YouTube you don’t support censorship if you don’t. The almighty dollar rules folks.

Google, gmail, YouTube, Facebook – are all seeking control and $$$. Don’t just rage against their censorship and control – start your own website. People vote with their support and their dollars. If you don’t like it – don’t use it. Find a service – like Viemo or some other less cluttered server where quality and intellectual exploration is welcomed.

Corporate communism is real. Rense.com, PrisonPlanet.com and other sites like them are real and spreading a message too few want to hear. It’s here. It’s coming. It’s going to get bigger. Follow the money. Tell advertisers you WANT what YouTube is censoring. If you’re an advertiser tell YouTube you don’t support censorship if you don’t. The almighty dollar rules folks.

This was a very powerful video and topic to bring up. I had not previously considered this topic but now am perplexed by the issue. Thanks for exposing this Chris.

When the Great They pull the plug (or it gets washed into the sea) then we can all turn to the people next to us (also on their computers or UPhones) and speak politely. Anxieties, born by interacting in a constantly and irreverently churning digital world will also twitter away. And the people we love can sit closer while we lean less toward colorful LCDs.

That violence is appreciated by networks is good…that sex is not is bad. But they are apples and oranges, fruit of our most primal instincts, relics of our real, live (not digital) past. We’ll go there again. Freely or by force of nature, we will go there again. Or our kids will, or theirs.

Great post. Thanks for allowing free speech (well, I do pay for computers, upgrades, I purchase the Bill the Man, and I pay a variety of bills like power and phone and dsl and service providers and web-servers and domain name holders and…) here on your website.

When the Great They pull the plug (or it gets washed into the sea) then we can all turn to the people next to us (also on their computers or UPhones) and speak politely. Anxieties, born by interacting in a constantly and irreverently churning digital world will also twitter away. And the people we love can sit closer while we lean less toward colorful LCDs.

That violence is appreciated by networks is good…that sex is not is bad. But they are apples and oranges, fruit of our most primal instincts, relics of our real, live (not digital) past. We’ll go there again. Freely or by force of nature, we will go there again. Or our kids will, or theirs.

Great post. Thanks for allowing free speech (well, I do pay for computers, upgrades, I purchase the Bill the Man, and I pay a variety of bills like power and phone and dsl and service providers and web-servers and domain name holders and…) here on your website.

It’s a HUGE reason/argument for having your own blog. It’s yours and you build community, share your thoughts, help others, etc… No one can take it from you. (unless the host goes down)

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I haven't read YouTube's Terms of Service. I do know that YouTube is not a public domain but a corporate entity who has sole discretion over how it intends to run its site.

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food for thought once again.
jt

Interesting. May I reproduce your post in one of my blogs leaving a link to it?