by hilbert42 on 6/11/2025, 12:12:21 PM
by throwaway81523 on 6/11/2025, 9:00:07 AM
Slope's Game Room (video game documentaries), 160k subscribers, 600-ish videos.
This should be on archive.org rather than youtube in all likelihood.
by nubinetwork on 6/12/2025, 8:45:07 AM
Follow up video https://youtu.be/eAGBhgNqtWE
by hhannahuy on 6/11/2025, 9:54:00 AM
Hate youtube
by stefantalpalaru on 6/11/2025, 11:44:48 AM
From a YouTube comment:
• Slopes made video on a(n alleged) scammer
• Alleged scammer was mad and doxxed him
• Slopes went into the alleged scammer's WhatsApp group anonymously
• It's all in Spanish, so he downloaded the chat logs, uploading it to his Google drive, so he could have a Spanish friend look at it
• Google scanned the chat logs, and saw lots of horrible Hate Speech; and is punishing Slopes for having Hate Speech.
• Google set his entire account for deletion. Not just YouTube, but his entire photo library going back years and years.
• Slopes, in a panic seeing this, messed up his first chance to appeal this. There is possibly a second chance.
• He's asking if anyone knows anyone who has a direct line to YouTube, to contact his above email
by lproven on 6/11/2025, 11:55:48 AM
What is going on with the moderation today?! Valuable comments are being marked DEAD.
This: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44246573
... is a great potted summary. It should not be marked dead. @dang, can you fix this?
We need laws to stop Google deleting data in such circumstances. It's one thing to block or remove access to one's data but deleting it is another matter altogether.
Google is a monopoly and people have little choice other than to use it or go without.
If governments cannot bring Big Tech to heal—which seems to be the case—then the least they can do is to protect people's data. A third party, government tribunal etc., ought to be an avenue of appeal. Only after investigation by such an authority and after it deems material illegal etc. could it be deleted.
Despite what I've said I for the life of me cannot understand why people trust Google with their data without first backing it up elsewhere.
For the record I've even chosen to not have a Google account (at least a current one linked to a phone number and a smartphone). Before such mandatory requirements I posted to YouTube under an alias.