YouTube quietly removes “Broadcast Yourself” motto from its official blog
It’s the latest sign that YouTube no longer cares about the independent content creators that helped grow its platform.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez supports Elizabeth Warren’s plan to break up big tech
AOC described Facebook is “communications, advertising, and surveillance platform”.
Sonic the Hedgehog movie trailer reaction videos targeted with false YouTube copyright claims
Reaction videos should be protected under fair use but a number of music labels have filed bogus claims against YouTube creators reacting to the trailer, even when no trailer audio was used.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki suggests that trade offs which impact innocent creators are necessary
She says that YouTube’s past decisions to mass disable comments and block content that didn’t actually violate the community guidelines were necessary trade offs.
YouTube’s move to promote more so-called “authoritative sources” has wiped out $70 billion from Google’s value
Alphabet, the parent company of Google and several other subsidiaries have suffered from a sharp decline in revenue. The stock value of the company went down more than 8% on Tuesday, wiping out $70 billion in value. This Monday, it was reported that the ad revenue grew by 15% when compared to t
The Sri Lankan government has lifted the highly controversial social media ban following the Easter attack on Christians
The Sri Lankan Government has lifted the nine-day ban imposed social media sites Facebook, YouTube and more following the bombings in the country that took place during Easter. The country’s government stated that they banned social media sites to prevent the spreading of fake news and misinfor
Open source Chromium users are being told it’s an “unsupported” browser for Google docs
Users trying to access Google Docs via the latest Chromium-based Microsoft Edge browser are unable to open any document and are receiving an “unsupported browser” notification, according to Ghacks. This latest Edge browser and Google Chrome share the same Chromium engine. While Google Chrome us
New report shows that Facebook feared Apple and Google’s mobile internet dominance
The report covers Project Oxygen – a plan Facebook started working on in 2013 to protect itself from Google’s virtual chokehold over Facebook’s mobile internet distribution through the Google Play Store.
Comedian Steven Crowder says his YouTube channel with 3.7 million subscribers could be removed due to fake copyright claims
Three bogus copyright strikes were filed against an original “Dr. Trump” parody music video in the span of a week and Crowder says that these strikes may lead to his YouTube channel being terminated.
Child labor laws never anticipated the YouTube and “influencer” era
Children are being put to work on YouTube and Instagram.
Weedcraft Inc is facing YouTube censorship issues
The game soon hit the wall of YouTube’s and Facebook’s “aggressive policing.”
UK IPS don’t like that Google is about to make censoring more difficult for them
The new encrypted DNS technology in Chrome could make it harder for service providers to block websites.












