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User Generated Content
YouTube Changes Penalty System After Pedophilia Flap
mediapost.com - Rob Williams
Google’s YouTube changed its penalty systemthat suspends accounts for violating its community guidelines after the latest brand-safety controversy. …
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Peter Thiel
How YouTube became an Internet of Contradictions
sfchronicle.com - Owen Thomas
Welcome back to Tech Chronicle. If you find a mysterious algorithm compels you to subscribe, I say go with it. So many cesspools, so little time If you …
Mashable
YouTube will no longer give a strike to first-time offenders
Mashable - Karissa Bell
YouTube is changing its "strike" policy in an effort to make it easier to understand. With the changes, first-time offenders who violate YouTube's policies will receive a warning instead of a "strike,"
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Tweens
On YouTube, a network of paedophiles is hiding in plain sight
Wired UK - K.G Orphanides
Getty images / WIRED Videos of children showing their exposed buttocks, underwear and genitals are racking up millions of views on YouTube – with the …
TechSpot
Technology
YouTube is rolling out tweaks to its copyright strike system
TechSpot - Cohen Coberly
Ever since Google bought YouTube years ago, a number of controversial changes have been made. Heavy overhauls of YouTube's advertisement system, as …
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Pokémon
YouTube deletes Pokémon Go videos as it fails to take down reported child exploitation
pcgamesn.com
YouTube’s algorithmic content filters have been a point of contention for content creators in the past, especially after the so-called ‘adpocalypse’, …
Geeky Gadgets
YouTube redesigns its strike system
geeky-gadgets.com - Conner Flynn
YouTube’s strike system has always been terrible. You often don’t know what you’ve done wrong, and the punishment can vary from a slap on the wrist …
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Tutorials
11 YouTube Channels Every Filmmaker Should Follow in 2019
premiumbeat.com - By Logan Baker
We rounded up some of the best YouTube channels every filmmaker should be following for inspiration and technical know-how in 2019. Before we get to …
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Celebrity (UK)
YouTuber JackSepticEye responds to rumours that he’s dead: ‘It’s true’
metro.co.uk - Louise Griffin
YouTuber JackSepticEye has responded to rumours that he’s dead in a way that no one expected – confirming them. We don’t really know what to do with …
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Chromecast
How to stream ‘Survivor’ for free
Daily Dot - Lauren L'Amie
Survivor: Edge of Extinction is set to premiere on CBS Feb. 20, 2019, and rumors of imminent island disaster are already swirling. Whether you’ve …
Social Media
How Facebook's Fake News Fight Helped Circulate Vaccine Misinformation
newsy.com - Tyler Adkisson
Reports show that some social media algorithms designed to fight fake news are pointing people to vaccine misinformation before real info. Social …
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YouTube Music
SoundCloud Premier users can now distribute their music directly to Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music and more
musicradar.com - Ben Rogerson
SoundCloud’s Premier tier already gave its users the opportunity to make money from their music, but now it enables them to distribute their tunes to …
Two Average Gamersadded this to Gaming
Pokémon Go
Confusion Reigns After Mistake Leaves Popular Pokemon GO YouTubers Banned
nintendolife.com - Gavin loves a bit of couch co-op, especially when he gets to delegate roles, bark instructions and give much-appreciated performance feedback at the end. He lives in Spain (the plain-y bit where the rain mainly falls) and his love for Banjo-Kazooie borders on the unhealthy.
A raft of popular Pokémon GO YouTubers – including Marksman, Mystic7 and Trainer Tips – received accidental bans yesterday and were locked out of …
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Technology
EU’s proposed upload filters suck and YouTube’s ‘child pornography’ snafu shows why
TNW - Már Másson Maack
YouTube just backtracked its inexplicable decision to delete three popular Pokémon Go channels — Trainer Tips, Mystic7, and Marksman — for violating the platform’s rules against sexualizing minors. All
New York Postadded this to Tech
Flat Earth Society
YouTube is helping the flat-Earth conspiracy movement grow
New York Post - By Mike Wehner
The internet makes it possible for the average person to access an incredibly vast amount of knowledge amassed over centuries, as long as they know …
Copyright Directive
How to draft an Executive Order on alien abductions
reason.com - Stewart Baker|Feb. 19, 2019 5:51 pm
The backlash against Big Tech dominates this episode, as we cover new regulatory initiatives in the US, EU, Israel, Russia, and China. The …
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Geek
One of Solo: A Star Wars Story's Giant Explosions Was Inspired By the Slow Mo Guys on YouTube
io9 - Andrew Liszewski
Digital tools like 3D animation and motion capture helped revolutionize the visual effects industry, but there’s still plenty of room for practical …
Gizmodo
Livestreaming
YouTube Updates Its Three-Strikes Policy—But Not the One You're Mad About
Gizmodo - Melanie Ehrenkranz
Making bullshit copyright claims to get content removed from YouTube remains a tried-and-true way to screw with creators, which is why the company’s …
FOX Business
U.S. Dept. of Defense
From Toyota to Allergan: More companies are installing gunshot detectors
FOX Business - Jade Scipioni
A slew of recent workplace shootings over the past year have prompted more and more corporations to quietly install gunfire-detection systems at some of its offices and factories. One of the country’s
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Technology
YouTube still can’t stop child predators in its comments
The Verge - Julia Alexander
A new video reopens discussion on an ongoing problem YouTube is facing a new wave of criticism over the alarming number of predatory comments and videos targeting young children. The latest concerns started
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YouTube Music
You can now use YouTube Music with Android Auto
Android Authority - Williams Pelegrin
Even though YouTube Music has not yet attained feature parity with Google Play Music, Android Police noticed that version 3.03 includes an important addition: Android Auto support. If you’re already playing
Music Videos
John Legend performs new single “Preach” on Ellen: Watch
consequenceofsound.net - Ben Kaye
Last Friday, John Legend released “Preach”, a powerful new single calling for action to impart social change instead of just talking about it. This …
YouTube revamps its strike system to include a one-time warning, consistent penalties
yahoo.com - Sarah Perez
YouTube today announced a significant change to its strike system - thepenalty system used when YouTube's reviewers identify a video has violated …
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Cybersecurity
YouTube Introduces One-Time Warning, New Strike Penalties
PCMag - Angela Moscaritolo
The first time you post something that violates YouTube's rules, you'll essentially get a one-time pass. From there, you'll get three strikes, which …
Two Average Gamersadded this to Gaming
Livestreaming
YouTube revamps community guidelines strike system
Polygon - Petrana Radulovic
In an effort to make policies clearer and consistent For the first time since 2010, YouTube is updating its strikes policy, in an effort to maintain consistency and clarity across the community. YouTube
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Chromecast
Use this code to slash 20% off select Google gear: Chromecast $28, Home Hub $103, more
9to5Toys - Simon Walsh
BuyDig via Rakuten is offering the Google Chromecast for $28 shipped when coupon code HOME20 has been applied during checkout. Note: You will need to be logged in to a free Rakuten account to use this
Sling TV
Video Spending Hits $166M For National TV Ads
mediapost.com - Wayne Friedman
Video streaming services continue to push spending on national linear TV advertising -- largely due to major TV sports programming. Over the last …
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Computers
YouTube changes its strikes system, offers softer first-offense penalty
Digital Trends - Anita George
YouTube creators are well aware of what can happen if their content violates the video-sharing website’s guidelines. But it hasn’t always been clear …
Youth Vote
Perludem, Google launch new website to inform Indonesian voters
thejakartapost.com - The Jakarta Post
Election watchdog the Association for Elections and Democracy (Perludem) launched on Tuesday its new web-based platform pintarmemilih.id that will …
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YouTube Music
Brits 2019: Lyor Cohen says next generation music stars ‘have a PhD in YouTube’
inews.co.uk - Adam Sherwin
In brief Rap mogul who signed Jay-Z called music's most controversial executive • Parody videos and tributes 'could be banned' under EU directive aimed …