RE: The YouTube censorship thread
I've noticed some new shenanigans going on at youtube the last few days.
There was a massive world wide outage of ALL youtube comments, across ALL platforms. It was noted on Reddit and even had official youtube spokesman commenting and apologizing.
Funny thing is, this went on for several hours, at peak time, but very few have mentioned it. It's almost as if it was selective.
This is what made me suspicious. I've made some very serious posts on some major channels the last few days/weeks. Not trolling but would definitely be seen as inflammatory to some. Not a single like. Not a single response. Nothing.
Ok, so I'm a bit of a bore who no one wants to respond to. I get it. Happens all the time. But when preaching to the gallery and being used to getting a few 'validations' I just thought it was odd that it looked like my posts had been shadow banned.
So I logged out. Weird. My posts are still there. Why is no one commenting. Why is no one liking. I'm going from past metrics here not how wonderful and enlightening a writer I am. Past behaviour and all that.
I dug a bit deeper. Some of my comments have just been plain removed, sent to the memory hole. No warnings. No notifications for hate speech. This is stuff working on building race relations and black and white people coming together. This has happened before. I notice a lot of posts which are overtly racist towards blacks/whites are still up. Getting likes. Getting responses.
Something funny is going on. This is what I think is happening.
Google uniquely fingerprints your machine when you use its services. Everyone uses its services. You can't not. So it has a unique fingerprint database of all machines connected to the net. It's that simple.
This is without cookies and other methods, which you can try to evade, but you can't really, unless you really are up to no good. I'm a big fan and proponent of VPN's as you know, but I'm not so naive as to think that google and gootube don't know exactly who I am when I use youtube.
So they have taken shadow banning up a next step. They are not just banning people via whether they are logged in or not. They are showing all posts a person made WHILST LOGGED OUT, so the person thinks it's not shadow banning, but in reality, nobody else sees your posts. You have been shadow banned, but to a much more sophisticated level.
Log in log out. Your posts are there. But they are invisible to the world. This is apart from gootube just deleting your posts anyway.
It's quite clever. It's totally doable by the tech they have. Google now have just about the perfect database of all machines connected to the internet. With over a 90 percent accuracy. It's this tech they are using to ultra-shadow ban people. If your IP has been logged, even via a VPN, it goes in a database. But it doesn't even need that, it is now relying on unique fingerprints of actual computers.
I hope I'm wrong. But this is pretty scary. The fact this worldwide outage of ALL youtube comments happened this evening is making me think they are rolling out new censorship options.
Ok I'll step back off the pipe. I'm paranoid and just need to rant because someone didn't give me my dopamine rush of likes.
The funny thing is, I actually seriously trolled some channels where I knew I would catch major shit, just to see. And again, nothing. Not a single response. My comments were there when I was logged in, and they were there when I was logged out, but yet objectively it looks as if no one else can see them.
I've had a few responses here and there I must admit, I'm talking generally here. But the massive worldwide outage tonight really made me think something is up.
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