Short Summary
- The video discusses a violation of YouTube’s terms of service by a product/service named “redacted.”
- It highlights the importance of displaying the privacy policy of the API client prominently for users.
- The need to inform users about the usage of YouTube API Services and how their information is processed and shared is emphasized.
- Downloading, storing, or promoting copyright infringement materials is strictly prohibited.
- Compliance with YouTube’s terms of service, API services terms, and developer policies is urged.
- Any content gathered in violation of these terms and policies must be deleted.
- The YouTube team requests cooperation in correcting and ceasing the offering of the client that violates their terms within seven days.
- The need to provide API project IDs if accessing or using YouTube API services is mentioned.
- Futo, the distributor of the “redacted” application, claims it respects content creators’ rights and does not agree to the API terms of service or developer policies since it does not use YouTube API services. Futo expresses willingness to cooperate with YouTube in supporting content creators.
- The transcript concludes with a statement criticizing YouTube’s actions and expressing confidence in the organization’s ability to challenge them based on past achievements. The speaker also shares their dedication to their work, including fixing motherboards and standing up against bullying, and their readiness to hire legal representation if necessary.
So YouTube wants the Grayjay app to be removed within 7 days because they claim it violates the YouTube API ToS… pretty silly use of their own lawyers time IMO, considering Grayjay doesn’t use the YouTube API at all, and its source code is available for them to validate before sending out false claims like this.
Wonder how YouTube will respond to Louis’s refusal
You are right!
Louis also mentioned that they are not a bunch of college students in a dorm, YT will not scare them, he has great backing so as to go to a legal war!
I am interested in following what happens as well!
Also, You can mention Grayjay by name here directly unlike YouTube where even as a moderator I can’t mention it.
How does one become a YouTube moderator?
More importantly, why?
In general, Just be regularly a positive contributor in comments and if there are Livestreams also consistently be a positive regular there as well. Then when the creator needs new mods they might pick you since your a regular that is trusted.
This also can be used actually for almost any community online as well.
Oh I didn’t realize the creator could deputize mods
Yep! On YouTube beyond their trust and safety staff there’s also 2 categories of volunteer mods. One is more of a normal moderator role for the channel called “standard moderator” and the other one that I have “managing moderator” can moderate and set people as moderators or even an approved user.
Here’s an article from YouTube on our moderation controls. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer
The only thing is YouTubes tooling for community management has a lot of issues to put it nicely.
I think he meant moderators that are google employees.
Welp, That’s just a job with an application process. Can’t really help there
Yeah, this will be fun to watch as FUTO and YouTube might actually go at it in a legal case.
And FUTO has Louis on their side which won’t be good for YouTube lol
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=KJ42f-tV_3w&t=336
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
