Second Chances on YouTube
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·October 9, 2025conartist6
xg15
Given how vague their "eligibility criteria" are and how they consider on- and off-platform behavior, I'm not sure that's such a great loss.
The whole thing reads like institutionalized selective enforcement.
Onavo
> The whole thing reads like institutionalized selective enforcement.
The State forced their hands here. Comply and let certain favored creators back, or else they might find themselves subject to political prosecution.
BoredPositron
That's hilarious it's so strange to see copyright arguments in 2025 when every tech company that mingles in AI just doesn't give a fuck? Why should I care?
JKCalhoun
The whole thing is a weird mea culpa.
YouTube: We fucked up. A little.
And I love how they're framing it as a "Second Chance". Like, you fucked up but we're going to be big and compassionate just this once.
The cynical me suspects that this instead is a more sweeping plan to cover for their coming re-listing of all the hate-filled, extremist channels that they had delisted in the past.
tjpnz
Trusting your livelihood to platforms like YouTube already puts you in an incredibly precarious position, even if you are playing by the rules. The Adocalypse comes to mind, as do random algorithm changes and flawed automation leading to videos getting demonetized. It's no wonder most of the creators I follow are hedging their bets on paid promotions and crowd funding platforms (which all have the same problems). I couldn't imagine the stress in relying on all that to pay off a mortgage.
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ufko_org
The end of woke and progresivism on YT? :)
yellow_lead
With other platforms (Twitter, Facebook) unsuspending accounts banned for hate speech and racism, I can't help but think this is a similar move.
vachina
Guess they’re running out of (fresh) content to feed to the ever increasing watchtime, and there is only so many video creators.
Basically running out of videos to serve their ads alongside to.
byronic
Speaking as a parent of young children, I don't see any point in going back to YouTube. It's been blocked in our household basically since our oldest was six, and I don't see any way they could ever lure us back into that ecosystem.
Save perhaps allowing access only to specific, curated (self-controlled) channels.
If anything, YT's announcement here suggests they're going to take an already terrible platform covered head to toe in schlock and say "y'know what, we can add on a few more buckets"
kranke155
No it’s worse. The US government is making them reinstate people they don’t believe belong in the service at all.
chirau
I am lost as to how all this works, so apologies for some dumb quesions:
1) If a person's channel is terminated, can they not already open another channel?
2) How is this different from a person either opening a new channel or getting a new Gmail and opening a new channel?
ikamm
> Circumvention of channel termination
>If your YouTube channel is terminated, you are prohibited from using, possessing, or creating any other YouTube channels. You are also prohibited from letting others whose YouTube channels have been terminated use your YouTube channel to bypass their termination.
>This applies to all of your existing channels, any new channels you create or acquire, and any channels in which you are repeatedly or prominently featured.
thrance
Yay, all the crazy lunatics will be back, more determined than ever to say racial slurs and propagate disinformations. Exactly what YouTube needed.
geeunits
aka we realise there's only so many humans and we need some back to profit from them again
The_President
I left because it’s infested with advertising that offensively begins playing loudly the millisecond a video page loads. The site feels janky and the algorithm games the consumers. YouTube still is in the business of feeding drivel to toddlers and shadowbanning normal user accounts from comments. Like Windows, YouTube lost my trust long ago and no amount of blog posting about how good they are will ever fix that. Odysee and Rumble are better experiences, unlike YouTube the sites let you play content in the background on mobile. Mainstream YouTube, an advertising delivery platform with concerns for the user and creator base being deep last.
timnetworks
I'm posting this here specifically for the audience: blocking ads is OK. Product managers offer no value add to development.
j3th9n
Why does reading this feels like a toxic relationship.
globalnode
Yeah I was thinking "excuse me? no thanks, you can stick it"
dvh
Great, can't wait for chucke2009 narration of Mein Kampf /s
Won't be available to anyone terminated for copyright stuff.
Woooow what a huge dick move.
That's the one massively imbalanced power dynamic that I hear people really fear losing their livelihood to for no good reason, and they're leaving it there to terrorize and ruin livelihoods for future generations.
I put up a video of a funeral service for my grandma and like 5 minutes later I was getting threatening legalese mail about my channel by cancelled forever because some record label has a recording of a thousand year old hymn and they don't give a shit about threatening people with no legal basis at all