● 06.11.23

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●● New Series: Why People Everywhere Should Quit YouTube

Posted in Free/Libre Software, Google, Law at 7:31 pm by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Lots of debate in the world about harms of TikTok; why not YouTube too?

Image: Videos as a political weapon

“Creators” and developers accepting imperialistic companies as their “masters” or bosses is a recipe for the worst disaster, a route to chaos

Summary: Techrights is starting a video/text series on reasons to quit YouTube (a one-week series), mostly in light of YouTube’s attack on Free software

WITH a 7-day deadline, Google’s lawyers have declared war on Free software. It would not be the first such war, but this one is different. Not much of (what’s left of) the media covered it, but this one article explains: “The developers of Invidious, a privacy-respecting alternative front-end for YouTube, have received a cease-and-desist notice from YouTube’s legal department. The free and open source software, which provides a YouTube experience minus advertising and user tracking, has been instructed to shut down within seven days. As things stand, cooperation isn’t on the agenda.”

↺ 7-day deadline

This has been discussed in social control media and this is still discussed in IRC.

> “Let Google feel the consequences for its actions and polices.”

The above isn’t the sole reason to quit YouTube and protest against YouTube, both as a “creator” and as a “user” (spectator, viewer). Over the coming week we’ll cover many different ways in which YouTube got worse, hostile not just towards/against “consumers” (who “consume” “content”) but against the people who create all the “content” in the site.

Our expectation is that this series will run every day for the coming week. By then, we hope, more people will have made the decision to quit engaging with the platform or significantly reduce their engagement. Let Google feel the consequences for its actions and polices. █

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