hi @TeamYouTube
Several smaller creators are being abused by your copyright system and are at risk of having their channels deleted and have asked me for help.
A german company called fifthfreedom GmbH is copyright striking videos for music called "Radio Cultural Rendezvous" when there isn't even ANY MUSIC in the video. Dozens of original videos all struck when there is zero copyrighted content in them.
I can't even list the channels because doxing them would mean this company could target them with more strikes and have their channels deleted.
Appeals/counter claims DO NOT work because they just send more strikes and these smaller creators have tried every possible support channel with no real response.
An AI chatbot DM'ing me a self help article is NOT helping, can I please get a DM or an email from a real human being to help these people out?
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Congress is rushing the KIDS Act to expand the surveillance state under the guise of “protecting kids.”
Identity checks to use the internet.
Government monitoring and control of all Americans.
It’s coming if you don’t act now.
Tell Congress: No!
What you are trying to push in through is fundamentally Anti-American
Don't blame anyone but yourself if you get voted out if you continue to push this
Heres some stats on how wrong you are for doing this to Americans
Reminder that this act would require EVERYONE to get checked for age verification
Government and Companies could not be happier to use kids as an excuse to spy on you
The internet might be over.
I am not talking about the corporate, ad-filled internet. I mean the real one. The one you use to talk with your friends, find niche communities, and freely share ideas. The way you access and interact with the digital world is about to change forever if we don't speak up right now.
The U.S. House of Representatives just passed the KIDS Act. Do not let the well-intentioned name fool you. This massive legislative package is a wolf in sheep’s clothing that could potentially cause an unfathomable amount of damage to the privacy, security, and free speech of every single citizen in the United States.
Major civil liberties and digital rights organizations, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and FIRE (Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression) are sounding the alarm. This bill is a massive over-reach of legislation designed to curtail your freedoms, everyones.
Under this bill, websites and apps will be pressured to verify the age of all users to avoid massive legal liability. This creates a de facto age-verification mandate, meaning you could soon be forced to upload government IDs, passports, or hand over biometric facial scans just to use standard apps or browse everyday websites. Forcing every corner of the web to collect and store these massive databases of citizen identity documents is an absolute cybersecurity nightmare waiting to happen, creating a golden target for hackers and data leaks.
The bill also takes direct aim at standard privacy features like disappearing or ephemeral messaging, treating basic digital privacy tools like dangerous design tricks rather than the digital equivalent of a private, real-world conversation. By weaponizing broad, vague definitions of "harmful content," the package pressures tech platforms to heavily over-censor completely lawful speech out of fear of massive government lawsuits. It risks sanitizing the internet and shutting down vital spaces for free expression and open communication.
This won't stop at signing up for websites, or chat apps. It will extend to artwork websites, multimedia hubs like Newgrounds, Music sites, even Reddit and 4chan will be subjected to this, and while you might think it's well deserved, you won't be saying that when they start asking users to verify their age on Mangadex or doujinshi sites, or on Itch io. Going to websites outside the US would be scrutinized if it doesn't follow the same criteria.
VPNs? Forget it, they'll try to outlaw those, too.
We all want children to be safe, but turning the entire internet into an Orwellian surveillance state where you have to show papers just to log on is a terrifying overreach. The bill has passed the House, which means the battleground is officially moving to the Senate. We cannot afford to sit this one out. This is a slippery slope and we must not give them this power over all of us.
Destiny 2 players organize “Server Slam” as some call for a Sony boycott
The Destiny 2 community is encouraging players to log in on Bungie Day, July 7, for one final “Server Slam.”
They want to celebrate the game one last time and overwhelm the servers.
Players are calling for a Sony boycott to send a message following the end of major development and support only for Marathon