[ PFIR ] YouTube demonetized my tuba videos (also, I make tuba videos)
YouTube demonetized my tuba videos (also, I make tuba videos) https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/04/youtube-demonetized-my-tuba-videos-also-i-make-tuba-videos/ As of today, your channel, TubaPeter.com, will no longer have access to monetization tools associated with YPP because it doesn't meet the new threshold of 4,000 hours of watch time within the past 12 months and 1,000 subscribers. If you meet the new threshold at some point in the future, you'll be automatically re-evaluated for YPP. The reviews typically take 1-2 weeks. - - - The new YT monetization thresholds, especially (but not limited to) how they are being applied to long established YT channels, are unjustifiable. Please see: "How YouTube's Ad Restrictions Have Gone Very Wrong" - https://lauren.vortex.com/2018/04/05/how-youtubes-ad-restrictions-have-gone-very-wrong --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 ___ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
[ PFIR ] The EU's horrific and tyranical "Right To Be Forgotten" -- as described in 1944
The EU's horrific and tyranical "Right To Be Forgotten" -- as described in 1944
"Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to
date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by
documentary evidence to have been correct, nor was any item of news,
or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the
moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a
palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was
necessary."
-- ("Nineteen Eighty-Four" - George Orwell - 1944)
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[ PFIR ] [The EU is so wrong, as usual] Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse
[The EU is so wrong, as usual] Whois is dead as Europe hands DNS overlord ICANN its arse https://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/2018/04/14/whois_icann_gdpr_europe/ In a letter [PDF] sent this week to DNS overseer ICANN, Europe's data protection authorities have effectively killed off the current service, noting that it breaks the law and so will be illegal come 25 May, when GDPR comes into force. The letter also has harsh words for ICANN's proposed interim solution, criticizing its vagueness and noting it needs to include explicit wording about what can be done with registrant data, as well as introduce auditing and compliance functions to make sure the data isn't being abused. ICANN now has a little over a month to come up with a replacement to the decades-old service that covers millions of domain names and lists the personal contact details of domain registrants, including their name, email and telephone number. - - - Nobody NEEDS an Internet domain for non-business purposes. And if you're using a domain name for business purposes, your full identification, address, and other contact information should be openly available just like with public business license information and other public business data. It's the hiding of this data that has permitted spam, phishing operations, and other crooks to flourish, and the registries, registrars, and now the EU -- as usual on the wrong side of every Internet issue these days -- are directly complicit in these crimes by creating a shield behind which these monsters can operate. The EU: Pro-crime! Pro-censorship! They make Russia and China look like amateurs when it comes to 21st century information tyranny. Show me the switch to cut the EU off from the rest of the Internet and I'll pull it. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 ___ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
[ PFIR ] On the passing of Art Bell
On the passing of Art Bell Radio personality and truly unique individual Art Bell died yesterday -- I've received a pile of related queries so I'll say a few words here. Art originated the "Coast to Coast AM" radio show which went national in 1992. He had one of the most interesting biographies I've ever seen and very much focused on UFO, paranormal issues, and later on matters involving privacy concerns and such -- though conspiracy theories were always a popular topic. He never claimed to agree with all the strange stuff some of his guests would discuss. As I recall, it was privacy issues that pulled me into his orbit -- I was a guest on the show a number of times when he hosted, and while I don't remember the details I was probably trying to get some truth out regarding the reality of Internet privacy issues at the time. Art left the regular hosting of the show at the end of 2002, and current host George Noory took over as regular host at the start of 2003. George broadened the show's focus and invites on many more mainstream technologists and scientists, which is why my appearances on the show have grown so dramatically over the years since then. Frankly, I've never concerned myself with what other guests on the show are talking about. They can talk about UFOs and ghosts and other stuff that goes bump in the night -- and that's their choice. As far as I'm concerned, the show gives me the frequent opportunity to speak what I consider to be truth regarding a range of Internet and other technology-related policy topics, to audiences that routinely exceed a million listeners. And given the right-leaning nature of talk radio audiences, I consider the show a great opportunity to break through the misinformation "filter bubbles" that so often pervade radio today. And it helps that George is a great host and the show's producers have explicitly given me carte blanche to say whatever I wish. But *none* of this would be possible without Art Bell's pioneering efforts to draw large audiences to late night national radio, and creating a show that has dominated that time period ever since. He will be missed. Peace. --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Google Issues Mailing List: https://vortex.com/google-issues Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 ___ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
