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by damowangcy 1467 days ago
Why is a presitge University hosting their material on YouTube anyways?

Oh, because it's free and cool, comes with free distribution too.

Google didn't just target her or the university, like she said the AIs are amoral and the company doesn't really care because they only care about profit (or maybe they couldn't care less because of the yottabyte of content published everyday?)

Just being too dramatic while she could actually learn the rules and use YouTube as a platform to promote her content, i.e.cutting down full length lectures into smaller bitsize fun info video and direct viewers to their own hosting platform, etc.

And ironically, she's directing people to her paid subscription. We all need a sustainable way to create content and host it. She deserves to be paid for her content but don't play the victim card.

And Google and other platform is not all innocent, they need to be transparent about content moderation, like if you remove someone's content, please let everyone know why (on the page instead of just channel not found) and how the decision was made (bot or manual reviewed).

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Because the point of publishing videos like this is for people to see them, and Youtube is where the audience is. Universities and academics have to compete for mindshare and reputation just like anyone else does. The outcome they are after is not video hosting, it's people watching and sharing their videos.