Creators
Major game modding channel MxR Mods loses YouTube partnership and gets demonetized
Henry Liang, who owns one of the largest and consistently popular modding channels on YouTube, MxR Mods, has received an email from YouTube announcing that they’re removing the channel from the partnership program and demonetizing the entire channel.
EU free speech vs right to be forgotten case to be heard next week
In this case, Richard Cumbley of law firm Linklaters told Reuters, it would “create a serious clash with US concepts of freedom of speech, and other states might also try and suppress search results on a global basis reducing Google’s search engine to a list of the anodyne and inoffensive.”
World’s largest and oldest commercial archive Adland taken offline after questionable DMCA claim
Adland had been online for 23 years and often hosted ads that had been banned or censored elsewhere.
Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki says “sorry for the frustration” we caused after announcing mass verification purge
Yesterday creators who have been uploading to the site for over 14 years, creators with million subscribers, and creators who have been featured in YouTube’s promotional posts were told that they would be losing their verification in late October.
French High Court rules against Steam, says the company must allow the resale of game licenses
The High Court of Paris (abbreviated TGI, in English) ruled in favor of this French consumers union on September 17, which main criticism stems from the fact that Valve defines Steam purchases as subscriptions for content and services.
Local authorities want to sue Facebook for Alienstock Area 51 event
The Lincoln County Sheriff expressed his frustration at the fact that people had already started arriving at the inn and that his county has to spend a quarter of a million dollars.
YouTube strikes another blow to creators, announces mass verification purge
Yet another policy change that shows YouTube is turning its back on independent creators.
Martial arts gym owners face online mob review bombing for posting joke meme
The internet, being the internet, didn’t need anything else to a start a crusade.
Twitch streamer Greekgodx suspended by Twitch for gender joke
As of now, the length of Antonatos’ ban hasn’t been confirmed.
Antitrust scrutiny is leading to Google and Facebook building bridges with legacy media
No one knows for sure if the new policies are a way to mitigate the regulations imposed by governments to end the monopoly of Google and Facebook, who reported having 60% control of digital marketing over the past year.
Twitch accused of double standards as employee GeersArt creates “NSFW” art on livestream
An employee of Twitch who streams under the username of GeersArt had recently done a live art stream where he worked on an image depicting a nude woman’s body with her bare breasts being partially displayed.
Hillary Clinton is still blaming Facebook for helping Trump spread “outright lies about Democrats”
Clinton added that, “even though these posts violate Facebook’s stated terms of service, they’re still up.”