“It’s like if you gave control to a 6-month-old baby who can hit buttons”.
We recently covered the story of the Rose Tinted Spectrum YouTube channel being taken down for seemingly no real reason before being thankfully reinstated, but we’ve done some digging since then and have discovered that YouTube’s heavy-handed content guidelines are causing all kinds of issues for video game historians on the platform.
We were alerted to problems with YouTube’s draconian censorship system by game historian and regular Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak, who has been a victim of its takedown policy in the past. Szczepaniak highlighted cases relating to a trio of content creators – Majuular, The Cellar / Taigen Moon and GoodBadFlicks – all of whom had seen their content either removed or demonetised not due to copyright claims but because of their content.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
“It’s like if you gave control to a 6-month-old baby who can hit buttons”.
We recently covered the story of the Rose Tinted Spectrum YouTube channel being taken down for seemingly no real reason before being thankfully reinstated, but we’ve done some digging since then and have discovered that YouTube’s heavy-handed content guidelines are causing all kinds of issues for video game historians on the platform.
We were alerted to problems with YouTube’s draconian censorship system by game historian and regular Time Extension contributor John Szczepaniak, who has been a victim of its takedown policy in the past. Szczepaniak highlighted cases relating to a trio of content creators – Majuular, The Cellar / Taigen Moon and GoodBadFlicks – all of whom had seen their content either removed or demonetised not due to copyright claims but because of their content.
Read the full article on timeextension.com
