North Korea is a perfect example on what happens to a society when strong censorship is implemented. The BigBrother censorship, the type of censorship that dictates what you are supposed to think and feel about jewish people, black people, asian people, white people, men, women, porn, Islam, what to eat and what not to eat, vaccines, history, words, music, libraries, Barbara Streisand, Terrorism, Murder, Abortion, Adoption, Foster-Care, Right & Wrong Education - the list is endless - and Now Youtube is implementing it as well, so it is time to plan the goodbye-party.
Finding a good alternative for youtube has been talked about among youtube-creators since it was bought by Google and completely changed into whatever you want to call it today, so I was happy to be introduced to the LBRY community a while back, they had this idea that video-hosting would be a good idea but failed at their initial business-plan which was Pay Per View, as we all should know by now - Pay Per View is a really hard market to conquer, and to be completely honest - I was against the model, because I don´t believe in PPV as something there is a demand for, so I went and told them my mind in their slack-group and left to focus on something else.
So when I just now heard that LBRY is actually going to develop a user-controlled de-centralized Youtube, of course I jumped in my chair because I believe there is a HUGE demand for a youtube without censorship. A youtube that is not controlled by studio-interests and Dictated what to show and not to show in the traffic-machine that suggest videos for users.
In the world today, documentary-makers who dedicate their life and integrity to producing non-political factual documentaries about topics such as the true Origin of the Jewish people vs the true Origin of todays Jewish people or how many of them actually was killed vs how many that has been documented to be killed during world war 2 are flagged as anti-Semites, right wing, nazis or racist - Same thing if a non political dedicated factual documentary creator makes a video about topics like: "9/11 was an inside job" - automatically flagged as a conspiracy theorist with a thin-foil-hat and forever sentenced to the weird side of youtube next to 300 other videos that suggest that 9/11 was not an inside job and that in fact everything the government say is true and beautiful - censorship.
Big Brother hates mathematics, he absolutely hates it!
It has gone way too far now, what you can say and not say - what is allowed and what is not allowed to ask questions about. And let´s face it - Big Brother hates mathematics, if he could - he would ban it in schools worldwide and make sure nobody could add up or subtract because it is not in his interest that we - the people - learn.
And obviously we are not alone wanting to be able to publish content without the fear of being censored by powerful authorities who give delegations to a hoard of censorship-bureaucrats world wide who sit and flag all kinds of content their special interest does not agree with and make sure that the people walk in line the way they want people to walk in line.
If you actually really saw a UFO, had your friend take a picture of it with you and the alien next to it - do you think anyone would see it? or believe it?
One of the basic censorships they do is to laugh and label everyone who has seen anything that can question the power to be - for example a stronger power that maybe dwell not so far away from us.
Just think about it - You and your friends walk down the road, and you meet a big alien with a space-ship that use complex technology that does not exist here on earth - he tells you that he is able to cause all kinds of cool effects on the earth with his knowledge and technology - and since he is in a good mood he shows you a few examples of how advanced his civilisation is, and also tells you that they are many more then those who live on earth. Imagine if this really happen to you and your friends - you even documented it on two cameras and even sound-recorded the whole event, gave the alien a hug - waved goodbye - high-fived your friends and started uploading content to facebook, youtube, instagram, soundcloud and in excitement started blogging about it - would anyone really believe you?
All we want to do is to talk about what we are not allowed to talk about, because that is where the skeletons in the closet are hidden.
So, after the recent youtube controversy about the new censorship-rules a lot of people are sad and depressed, because Youtube has reduced so many of us into clowns with no circus already, so when LBRY Announced $500K Raised to Build the First Community-Controlled YouTube Alternative I feel very optimistic again about the future, maybe the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth - once again can flourish on this earth and the institutions of liars shamefully sent home packing as the old world truly is soaking in the blood of corruption, the new world which we are creating as communities should always embrace free speech and freedom of information and protect those rights. Free speech and freedom of information is not a ticket to become an asshole or a full time troll which in every case of course is the other side of the debate.
Big Brother Censorship must end - and the way to end it is by Little Brother(s) start telling the whole world every single thing they know about Big Brother, expose all those politicians who have ripped off the people and supported special interests and replace them with people who have not been and will not allow themselves to be corrupted by greed or fear.
As we all know, good men have died for the rights to free speech, others has died for bringing true stories out in public about knowledge that is forbidden by anyone to know anything about.
We as human beings and technocrats are the ones who can change the world, and we must change the world - there are too many numbers in too many affairs that does not add up, we know that their game is rigged and it is time for revolution.
The one right most people do know they have, is the right to remain silent - everything they say can and will be used against you in the court of law. That is the sad majority of the world now unfortunately. The silent partners.
I love you all - Freedom Fighters, Keyboard Warriors - Truthers!! Don´t give up just yet!
Should be a big movement to switch away from youtube.
@btcbtcbtc20155 In combination with steemit, the LBRY project could be just the tool we need to make sure videos cannot be censored the way mass-media does it. It is truly terrible in media-land.
Youtube has too much power over all the contents there.
Don´t forget the music-industry that is milking every single drop they can out of your video if there should be a single piece of copyrighted material - you can risk the video not being shown in many countries. It is horrible.
For changing the world we just must provide the something better than youtube and win on competitive activity then get audience to our site.
In other way it's just talkings.
Well, talking seems to be over, $500,000 on the table now for LBRY to produce the first beta of an alternative crypto-based youtube.
good 1
Where do I sign up!
You can learn more about the current project here: https://lbry.io/press/500k-fundraising-round-pillar-vc.md and I am sure we´ll see more projects in this space.
Thanks for sharing this!
Excellent. This is necessary, and there is no time like the present. Great post!
Remember, YouTube isn't the bad guy. It's the advertisers' fault. :troll:
Goodbye YouTube! Have a nice life.
Sounds good! Looking into it!
thanks for sharing this material, I like what you posted. Thank you so much
God idé!
It will be interesting to see what is going to happen when the U.S. is not in control of the internet. Is censorship right around the corner? I think the elite have had enough of free thinking.
I hope that if there is a "Our Tube" that it won't rely on advertisers but on a flat fee or donations.
There is one in development, I hope to see 3-4 other projects to pop up as well so we can go with the best one.
It will nbe interesting to see some new possibilities.
Censorship. On steemit also censorship. You didn't know?
When they tell you what posts to write and what not to.
And let somebody will tell that it not so!
In my own opinion switching wont happen unless a few of the big youtubers decide to switch platforms. Take Pewdiepie for instance, largest channel there is on there with 46,000,000+ subscribers. All he would have to do is take a few weeks worth of earned income and decide he wants to create his own platform and there go at least half of his subscribers with him, sure some of them will still watch youtube for the ones that didn't follow him to the new platform, but over half of the big channels would as well.
This LBRY thing seems interesting and if it were to be successful it needs to be marketed to the advertisers and channels that make YouTube a success. I have my own channel on there and produce gaming videos and vlogs. If your interested in that sort of thing you can check my twitter for the link to the channel, I use the same name there as I do here. At the current moment I am completely ignoring YouTubes community guidelines and curse like a sailor in each video because I can. All my videos are still monetized some how and it makes me wonder if YouTube isn't just doing this to avoid paying the larger channels. Most of them make at least $500+ per video. My channel being as small as it is, only makes pennies if that.
I would love to see a crypto supported video platform that works in the same manor as YouTube does as far as their video player goes. My internet sucks and the player on the new platform would have to support each resolution that the YouTube player does, as low as 144p, then 240p 360p 480p 720p 1080p. If it doesn't support those resolutions then I am likely not to even bother and likely alot of mobile users wouldn't either because 144p is the resolution most cell phones support that can access YouTube. The platform needs to be able to be accessed by all and not just people with 6+ mbps connections as alot of the world is still using 100 kbps, rural areas really suck for getting good internet speeds. Take all that into consideration and the new platform could be gold.
why steemit does not have their own video hosting
The only thing I can see wrong with a service like this is that you can host any kind of content you want on it. When you look at Steemit, we can't host videos or pictures on-site. This helps control the size of the blockchain itself, but it also means Steemit the website is not liable for child porn, snuff videos and things like that hosted on their blockchain. I have a feeling a decentralized YouTube would feel less like YouTube and more like the Silk Road...except without the rules that SR followed.
Lol. You really have no idea what you on about do you ?
So if there was a place people could post child porn and snuff films online, you'd feel OK posting your game reviews and live DJ sets to it? I know what I'm on about and I know that the content on a website like YouTube influences who posts to it.
Why do you keep going on about cp ? Its a bit odd. Snuff films ?? Lol . all this was available long before the internet. Anything there you can find on the vanilla web. Nothing new. People make up stories about the darkweb so idiots believe it and they male a crap ton of money in advertising revenues. There is just as much wierd stuff online without going to onion links. Im sure there are websites on the darknet thst have sick stuff on them, but these are private and only a few people use it. Its nothing new. Its just more secure on the darknet thats all. They wouldnt put download links and stuff like that they would upload it to one another through emails and term sensitive uploads. This is extreme though but im sure that is now these people do these things. All im saying is the darkwen isnt this super dark bad place full of secrets and wonderous magic of acient times.
Because it will end up on the decentralized YT and no one can take it down. The videos will always be there, forever. Yeah you can find that stuff on the regular internet now, but it can be taken down. You can eliminate each source of that kind of content, or avoid it. People looking up nefarious videos do so on different websites than people trying to listen to new music or watch PewDiePie. If people can just upload it to a YouTube-like service without any type of repercussion, that service will end up with a lot of this content, and regular users will get scared away. The shit taints the chocolate bar. That is my point.
Censorship never has nor ever will solve any problem. Don't like it ? Don't do it. Easy as that. It's not fair to take away someone elses freedom just because you don't agree with it. In my country a man wore a shirt that said "Fuck white people" on it. I don't agree with the message he is portraying but I sure as hell would stand up for him as far as freedom of speech and thought is concerned. However just because I agree and protect his right to express himself.... If he had got into trouble for wearing that shirt that is a whole other story. You should have the freedom to do what you want and the self control to know when to stop. If you dont like a certain race or culture or team or whatever, you should be allowed the freedom to show your disgust or cause trouble but then don't cry when someone pops you a shot in the lip.
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