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Although the reason was absurd, videos were eventually restored.
> Rich appealed both immediately. The first appeal was denied in 45 minutes. The second in just five.

> The platform claimed its "initial actions" (could be either the first takedown or appeal denial, or both) were not the result of automation.

Didn't know YouTube can improve their review time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes without automation. I bet it's pure magic.

Risk of physical harm? Should I perceive that as a… threat?
What's next? Utilman.exe tutorials removal?
Unfortunately, this brings an obvious question:

If they sensor something like this, how could we trust platforms with the actually important subjects?

Why is this allowed to occur?

Why is Microsoft allowed to operate in such a user hostile way?

Why aren't people like up in arms massively tanking their stock value, boycotting, reputation harming in every legal way possible en masse?

Like are people just careless and distracted 24/7?

Like surely this should just not be a thing?

I just don't understand how inhumane hostile behavior is just so rampant and like allowed to exist in our society.

>I just don't understand how inhumane hostile behavior is just so rampant and like allowed to exist in our society.

It's because that's the default. Do you see any other facet of human organization which doesn't have constant hostile behavior? If it's large enough, or going on for enough time, there is abuse happening in it.

>Like are people just careless and distracted 24/7?

People just want to live their lives, on which a removed Win 11 bypass video has zero effect.

Bit beside the point but Windows 11 is the first version since Windows 3.1 that I haven't used.

Nuked my Windows 10 install and put Pop OS on it + a MacBook separately.

And now 'physical' becomes as hyperbolized as 'violence.'
Google censors the world, together with Microsoft.

Well - it is time that the rest of the world censors these two corporation. I don't want them to restrict information.

People will find workarounds by the way. This is now a Streisand effect - as people see that Google and Microsoft try to hide information from them, they will now look at this much more closely than before, with more attention.

(Having said that, my bypass strategy is to not use Windows 11 altogether. I don't depend on it, having used Linux since 21 years now, but my machine to the left is actually using Win10, for various reasons, such as that I can fix problems of elderly relatives still using Windows. But I won't use Win11 ever with its recall-spy software. I also don't care that it can be disabled - any corporation that tries to sniff-invade on me, is evil and must be banned.)

Edit: Ok so the video was restored. That was good, but still, we need an alternative here. Google holds WAY too much power via youtube.

There are a lot of videos on YouTube about things that have a “risk of physical harm” and this is what they choose to pick on??
Feels like AI going wild with censorship regardless of what they say lol

I wonder if this is because Windows 11 has been used in critical systems to a certain extent?

I no longer run a Microsoft OS on any of the computers I own.

This type of behavior is the reason.

Linux is good enough for most everything I do, for the rest is MacOS.

Meanwhile AI products occasionally talk kids into killing themselves and that's okay.
The videos were restored, though...
Oh this is going to get the Streisand effect.
They cant remove all the Ubuntu installation tutorials surely?
So why shouldn't I use the windows 11 on the other partition that I use for games that don't run on Linux or run with degraded performance?

(Yeah, it's Nvidia, no, I didn't do my homework and bought Nvidia for a Linux PC).

While it may make sense for others, I don't find system that can lock up for 11 hours for updates suitable for anything other than occasional gaming. But why shouldn't I use it for it? I already think twice before getting any game that doesn't run on Linux and gave EA WRC Rally a downvote after they rug pulled Linux users. (A game that run on Linux on the beginning got borked with anticheat. A racing game, so you don't cheat your friends by having 1s less on that race you all compete on).

The video in question does present a risk of death... to Windows.

(Nah, that wording is but a generic legalese sounding way of casting a huge net to get all sorts of fish.)

The whole Windows 11 saga can be titled, "Dr. Bashlove, or, how I stopped worrying and learned to love the *NIX".

Hard to believe this is the same company that made Windows 7. Coulda just ported WSL and security fixes back to that and stopped there. But nooooo.

Maybe they mixed it up with mental harm from using Windows 11 and that's why they removed Windows 11 content.
Can anyone provide any attempt at rationalizing their decision? Could your computer overheat and explode if you do this? Could hackers take over your computer and play a flashing light pattern that will give you an epileptic seizure?
Stop assuming good faith. This is the same company that acquired Skype and de-P2P'd it at the pressing of the U.S. government to make interception feasible.

Microsoft just wants you reliant on them. They can't tap value if you aren't integrated. Simple as.