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The video is captioned if you want. But the TL;DW is that there's an ethical spectrum of security content; on one end is sketchy content that has little educational value - like, say, a tutorial on how to make a phishing page - and on the other end is educational content that could be applied maliciously but isn't intended that way - like a general web programming tutorial (or a DefCon talk). YouTube seems justified in demonetizing or removing the former type of content, but the difference between these two types is not always obvious if you don't have a security background, and so it's expected that there will be some false positives / negatives in YouTube's filtering. In practice, educational content (from LiveOverflow, for example, and from the other security channels he knows) hasn't been banned, and the few false-positive bans appear to have been reverted quickly, so it seems like this is largely a non-issue. If YouTube actually starts blocking educational security content, and not being responsive to appeals, then this would worth being upset about, but right now it seems like a non-issue.

(Note that YouTube has plenty of other problems; I'm just summarizing LiveOverflow's take on this particular controversy)



Oh man thank you so much for that. Totally makes sense and glad live overflow won’t be (hopefully) affected.

Videos aren’t working at all because the speakers on my phone are busted. On an iPhone, they won’t load even if the volume is set to 0. It has to have an output :(




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