YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'

> This is now a Streisand effect - as people see that Google and Microsoft try to hide information from them

This comment section is wild.

The videos are up. Microsoft and Google weren't meeting in secret backrooms to censor this one channel. The most likely explanation is that a competing channel was trying to move their own videos up in the rankings by mass-reporting other videos on the topic.

It's a growing problem on social media platforms: Cutthroat channels or influencers will use alt accounts or even paid services to report their competition. They know that with enough reports in a short period of time they can get the content removed for a while, which creates a window for their own content to get more views.

The clue is the "risk of physical harm". People who abuse the report function know that the report options involving physical harm, violence, or suicide are the quickest way to get content taken down.

Also Visa/Mastercard are big silencers…

and what phone do you use? There's no way out from that perspective (apple included), privacy and interoperability should not be mutually exclusive.

The reality is most people don’t care about this.

And if they do care they will find workarounds as you said.

Nothing will change, the frog has been sitting in boiling water for more than a generation now and the newbloods never experienced the computational freedom you hold dear; they will happily use whatever corporate surveillance technology is being forced upon them. They will even defend it to the bone if you try to take it away

I'm sure someone is figuring out a new version of the DMCA that prohibits circumventing data collection "in the name of preserving copyright".

I mean... documenting the details of the investigation to support the first decision and relying on the documented details the second time would easily explain that.

We can’t anymore. Simple as that.

*censor

This implies we could ever trust them.

We can't. From COVID to wars, YouTube is like public access TV from the 80s with scam preachers. We have to take it with a bucket of salt.

You can't, and this was readily apparent in 2020 with Covid. Even doctors presenting factual information got censored and de-platformed by YouTube.

The only real competing video platform that promises no censorship is Rumble ( https://rumble.com ), but it has a very right-wing slant due to conservatives flocking to it during all the Covid-era social media censorship.

You can’t.

I've dual booted since the 90's and have run Microsoft OS's somewhere since the 80's.

I had Windows 11 (kept it around for gaming), I binned it a few weeks ago.

Don't game enough to justify it any more (haven't even tried gaming on linux yet).

Juice was no longer worth the squeeze.

TBH the title is clickbait given the outcome.

Isn't the damage done though? Like if they were down at the time when people were told that win10 reached end of support and it's time to get on 11 does it matter that they are up now?

Anyway I doubt youtube did this intentionally, but it does show how vulnerable their system is to false reports.

There is no worse usage of windows than the occasional one given the huge amount of updates it starts to download whenever you start it up after a long period unused.

I guess it might be useful if you only keep it offline but in that case you aren't playing games online and thus you would be fine gaming on Linux given the only downside is lack of anticheat support.

I would think this selective action could / should open them up to litigation for all the other harmful things on their site

It’s all automated, of course there are false positives