From a pure business perspective this should be counter to YT's interests. Really hoping someone sees this here who can help. Watching this guy has supplanted the normal morning shows for me. Essentially a good aggregator of open source info from the Russian invasion of Ukraine with an eye towards accuracy. But he's clearly being targeted by hostile propaganda and influence campaigns.
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I had a year of absolutely no issues with advertising until recently, when it started to become more difficult to get all of my videos accepted for advertising revenue. My suspicions were that Russian bad-faith actors had been reporting my channel en masse such that the channel became flagged to YouTube, who gave it extra special attention with their bots.
Over the last week, it has now got to the point where every single one of my videos is restricted. (...)
From what I can gather, this is an ongoing challenge for virtually all pro-Ukrainian YouTube channels. It appears that pro-Russian channels can show all sorts of morally dubious footage and still get advertising revenue, but pro-Ukrainian channels are hammered by YouTube restrictions.
Why do you think pro-Russian channels have a different fate for monetization?
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Having watched this particular YT channel for a stint, I stopped because it was full of speculation and bias. The pro-X sides all show the same content and speculate wildly, only show you bias confirming content. These daily recap channels are all pretty much for war porn addicts at this point.
Mearsheimer is awful, I agree, don't recall why that one was added early on and/or not removed
I do think it's important to hear what he says so we know what ideas are being promoted by him that we need to refute. Steven Kotkin has some good segments where he puts JM's ideas where they belong.
Still, there is a vast difference between JM and the daily war porn channels
ATP is not war porn. The MSM has dropped the ball on reporting on Russian state terrorism and its invasion of Ukraine. You have to go to open sources to have any decent idea whats going on there day to day. Or watch someone like ATP who aggregates it and explains why he shows what he shows (or doesn’t). One of his sources, Andrew Perpetua, specifically watches w mix of 2/3 Russian coverage and 1/3 Ukrainian to cut out the noise-as well as just looking at satellite images on a live stream. Not war porn.
He lists the evidence for why he thinks he’s being targeted in the article.
I watched ATP for a while and would most certainly put it in with the war porn category, though not as bad as most. You don't have to show the worst videos to still be in the (soft) war porn category. He's definitely a biased source like most.
I get that you want people to think differently about ATP, but as a former daily viewer, I'm telling you why I left. It's a waste of my time and there are better sources for better discussions.
Thank you for thorough analysis of the situation. It is sad that my PoV is depending on some advertisers' will and some algorithm which is so easy hackable for the big players.
The upside: annoying so many content providers (many of whom put a lot of work into their videos) AND many viewers of those channels, swings the door wide open for competitors to step in.
Yeah in its field YT is the 800lb gorilla. But it doesn't own the content on there. And eg. P2P video streaming is a thing. So as soon as someone connects the dots in a way that competes with YT seriously, YT's death could be swift. Wouldn't be the 1st time a once-popular platform dies overnight.
Something all people need to acknowledge. 'Big Social Media' is a gatekeeper. It matters not if you're pro-Ukraine, anti-Ukraine, or pro-Putin or Anti-Putin.
As the OP states, the censorship has nothing to do with the content. The videos merely run afoul of some arcane algorithm that is set up by that member of 'Big Social Media'.
One example of an arcane algorithm (on Reddit, this time): A text posting which contains "too few words" and "a link" is automatically removed. Looks like we might need to start adding a 'Lorem Ipsum' to the end of our postings.
If we give the 'Big Social Media' boys the power to remove, censor, or alter our posts, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. There is nobody forcing us to use Social Media on a daily basis. Have we no will-power to desist from doing so?
"If you can't readily see what the product of a website is, that product is YOU.
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I had a year of absolutely no issues with advertising until recently, when it started to become more difficult to get all of my videos accepted for advertising revenue. My suspicions were that Russian bad-faith actors had been reporting my channel en masse such that the channel became flagged to YouTube, who gave it extra special attention with their bots.
Over the last week, it has now got to the point where every single one of my videos is restricted. (...)
From what I can gather, this is an ongoing challenge for virtually all pro-Ukrainian YouTube channels. It appears that pro-Russian channels can show all sorts of morally dubious footage and still get advertising revenue, but pro-Ukrainian channels are hammered by YouTube restrictions.
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Having watched this particular YT channel for a stint, I stopped because it was full of speculation and bias. The pro-X sides all show the same content and speculate wildly, only show you bias confirming content. These daily recap channels are all pretty much for war porn addicts at this point.
I maintain a playlist of what I think are high-quality discussions and conversations: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFDNgGI8RJ_c3mSs_hrUR...
> proceeds to recommend John Mearsheimer
I do think it's important to hear what he says so we know what ideas are being promoted by him that we need to refute. Steven Kotkin has some good segments where he puts JM's ideas where they belong.
Still, there is a vast difference between JM and the daily war porn channels
He lists the evidence for why he thinks he’s being targeted in the article.
I get that you want people to think differently about ATP, but as a former daily viewer, I'm telling you why I left. It's a waste of my time and there are better sources for better discussions.
Yeah in its field YT is the 800lb gorilla. But it doesn't own the content on there. And eg. P2P video streaming is a thing. So as soon as someone connects the dots in a way that competes with YT seriously, YT's death could be swift. Wouldn't be the 1st time a once-popular platform dies overnight.
As the OP states, the censorship has nothing to do with the content. The videos merely run afoul of some arcane algorithm that is set up by that member of 'Big Social Media'.
One example of an arcane algorithm (on Reddit, this time): A text posting which contains "too few words" and "a link" is automatically removed. Looks like we might need to start adding a 'Lorem Ipsum' to the end of our postings.
If we give the 'Big Social Media' boys the power to remove, censor, or alter our posts, we have nobody to blame but ourselves. There is nobody forcing us to use Social Media on a daily basis. Have we no will-power to desist from doing so?
"If you can't readily see what the product of a website is, that product is YOU.