Bring great Content to Steemit | Make a Change- sign a Petition

in #youtube6 years ago (edited)

Okay the title might seem a little ironical. Although i really believe we can get something going here, so bear with me :)

YouTube is failing its content producers for a long time now. Fair Use of content recieves strikes for copyright infringements.
There are lots of examples that perfectly demonstrate how baseless YouTube demonetises or outright blocks content, ranging from a guy doing Burger King reviews, to Reaction Videos.
Pewdiepie, the YouTuber with the most subscribers is also affected for bogus reasons.

“No more swearing, no more sexual jokes and definitely no more Hitler jokes,” PewDiePie says. “I wish I was joking, I’m not. It seems that YouTube has made some changes and about a third of my videos have become demonetized. I’m going to have to be family friendly from now on so I don’t go homeless."

After tightening the rules on what content is fit for advertisement back in 2017 a lot of videos were demonetized in hindsight across the whole platform, resulting in a decline in revenue for a whole lot of channels.

Political discourse is increasingly cencosred or demonetised, mostly right leaning content is affected. Criticism of political organisations or expression of classical conservative ideas being affected is just the tip of the iceberg. No matter how controversial or extreme an idea is, one should be able to voice it. The principle of free speech is meant to protect speech that is controversial and outside of public consensus.


In an effort to bring more good content to steemit, we need to raise awareness for the platform. If all the people affected by YouTubes ad policies knew of steemit, they surely would give it a try. This would easily generate another stream of income for them and provide promotional value to steemit.
Petititons might be a good way to show the rather big YouTubers to that content like theirs is in demand on steemit.

I came up with a list of channels that were targeted and would be a great addition to the platform. If not for the ideas or values they hold, then at least for being able to discuss or debunk them in a censorship free environment. Disagree with anything they say? Great, publicly point out their flaws. Everyone wins.


Whether you agree with the opinions voiced in their videos or not, if you believe in free speech, this should bother you.
Giving institutions or such big companies the power to affect the public opinion on this scale is dangerous.
The political climate can change and target left leaning content as result. Whether it´s faulty algorithms or biased human intervention, steemits distributed curation system is more fit to allow for free speech, discussion and curation of content than YouTube ever could.

These are just examples I know of, I do not neccessarily endorse any of the opinions expressed by the people listed here.
Happy to add more people to the list, no matter how controversial they may be .Feel free to come up with a custom text for a petition you especially care about. :)

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youtube is a central database selling illegal products to its clients behind the door. It will be revealed somehow and decentralisation is here to stay . More widespread awareness will happen when we have disintermediation happening at large scale.

Yes I want to actually bring Britney Venti and a few others to steem, the ones you listed are so big it would take a big deal in SP to get em on board, but yeah it would be worth it

but we need more people from the instagram wworld, who just post cool pictures, to populater the @steepshot app experience

and we really just need as many BANNED shows as possible

even altright shows like murdoch murdoch which get banned, those shows deserve to be seen pn dtube

I just hope that flagging doesn't remove stuff from dtube, if someone didn't like the racist jokes they'd just flag it and it would get removed believe which would suck, communities will stop that., communities has consensus based flagging l;ol

It's in the early stages....but they will come...

"If you build it, they will come"...it's human nature...it will be something they want

Content are the main theme

Thank you for the excellent explanation about breaking the rules by large database like YouTube.
I have already thought that there is freedom of discourse in most countries of the world except for the Middle East Now, with your explanation, I understand that this is happening in the advanced countries that claim to have freedom. By the way, I am also agree with doctalk.

There are a plentitude of people I would love to get on here. But until there is a large enough audience base, and the steemit platform and dtube clean up their performance and look it may take a while. I still run into problems with dtube which is frustrating beyond belief. But it is still very young and with time may become as sophisticated as youtube. I mean we already have dlive going. I have personally messaged some of my favorite youtubers in an attempt to get them on here so maybe if we all keep bugging out favorite content creators we can make it work!

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Magnificent article. I really liked it. Good luck to you and Love.

I dont care if Pewdiepie dissapear of youtube, he doesnt know to do anything else apart upload videos on youtube?

This is very amazing. Thank for sharing this on steemit.

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