Feb. 18, 2016 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
02:03
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| This will be a quick video to talk about the content flagging system on YouTube and how it's broken. | |
| In my time on YouTube, I've had manual copyright strikes from MTV, Fox News, The Guardian, and the Sydney Opera House, with the latest one coming from the last bastion of free speech. | |
| All of these copyright claims have been false, and I have won them all, and I have got no doubt that I will win this one. | |
| However, this is not a fair system. | |
| It treats me as if I am guilty just by making the accusation. | |
| This has become such a major issue that Doug Walker over at Channel Awesome has decided to try and make some sort of public campaign out of it. | |
| And him and Mundane Matt have done videos that I've put in the description to explain the whole concept a lot more clearly than I'm sure I would. | |
| But basically, I do think it's a good idea to have some sort of dialogue about this and see if we can get YouTube to change this system. | |
| It's not really very fair, and it gives a huge amount of power to people, frankly, who are going to misuse it and do misuse it every time. | |
| They have used it, they have misused it on me. | |
| So you can understand why I'd be concerned about this. | |
| And I would really like to get the system changed. | |
| To try and get some attention to this issue, Mundane Matt has set up a Thunderclap called Where's the Fair Use hashtag WTFU, which is obviously the hashtag we're going to be using for this. | |
| For anyone who doesn't know what Thunderclap is, it's a social media service, I guess, where you can start a campaign that on a certain time and date, everyone who signed up to join your campaign on their social media, it will print this message in front of you. | |
| Dear YouTube, as creators and fans of YouTube, we simply ask you this. | |
| When it comes to DMCAs, where's the fair use? | |
| And obviously the more people who sign up for the Thunderclap, the more people will see it on social media, and it'll affect metrics because it's all done at the same time, and you get a cascade of retweets and various metrics will be put through algorithms, and people will see it, and you know how these things work. |
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