the chilling effect of youtubes demonetezation
Youtube's demonetization continues to hit everybody in the community hard.
I'd like to remind people during this time to support creators, especially those that will criticize large corporations, really critique products instead of simply "unboxing" them and giving a promo, critique the government, the status quo and the media narratives if you'd like to see them continue. Because we are the people hurt most by youtube determining videos aren't "advertiser friendly", as well as how they've buckled down on adsense. I've been trying some different formats and different sites but there aren't any I could recommend at the moment.
As always two big things you can do is check out my bandcamp, Patreon to check out all the other stuff I do that includes apps, games, and more all free. My site jmillerworks.com .Like real talk real soon the way things are piling up, I might not be able to post anything anywhere...
It's obvious Youtube basically wants to become television, and have "safe" entertainment from mainstream sources like Ellen, instead of someone that will call out rapists and sickos in entertainment and has been doing it before it was cool back in 2014.
It's obvious they'd rather have a bunch of talking heads like the view that say things that just make women nod like "why aren't there more women in coding?" instead of someone that will ask "well why aren't you?" and provide tools tips and resources to help people get started and provide proof anyone can at any age.
They'd rather have "reviews" that are basically ads, with ads running on top of them instead of deep dives that are thorough and qualify who a specific device is for.
They don't want people who actually do journalism and determine if whatever hit piece of the week was written about an individual or movement is remotely accurate.
Google has stopped being the business that provides the right information at the right time and become part of the problem.
It's not the business of Truth no matter whose telling it, it's sold out
and they sold out because they believe that's what you want, and what they can get away with, and athiests, critics, rabble rousers, firebrands will all disappear and you won't even notice or do a thing to stop them. They think you are Harvey Weinstein's women that will lay back and take it.
Is that true? At this time I can't answer that
Thing is, the web has up to now been a quite free market sort of space. In other words, if one company stops a service that there is actually a demand for, another quickly starts to provide it, or users make some other sort of plan.
I don't know much about how YouTube works, or what the whole deal with demonetization is, but you can be sure it will be only a question of time before someone will come up with a creative solution for those affected.