YouTube Caught in the Act...AGAIN!!!
April 11, 2008
YouTube caught red-handed censoring videos. YouTube uses a wide array of sneaky techniques to stop certain videos from reaching the front pages and gaining more exposure. In this instance (which is just one of many), YouTube blocks the View Counter so that the video doesn't appear in the most-viewed lists. I have personally experienced this myself with many of my videos. This is how it works: On all videos, the "RATINGS" and "FAVORITES" counters are updated in near real-time. So if you rate a video, then check back a few minutes later, you'll see that your rating was indeed added to the total. It's the same for the Favorites counter and the "CHANNEL VIEWS" counter. But when it comes to the video view counter that is displayed below each video, this counter only gets updated between 1 and 4 times daily. Why doesn't the video view counter get updated in real-time like the rest of the counters? There's only ONE reason. YouTube does this because it gives them the opportunity to fiddle the viewing figures on any videos that it doesn't want to see in the most-viewed lists. When you upload a video and examine the view counter, you'll see that the number of views does indeed update in real-time, but as soon as that number reaches about 200 or so, the counter freezes and it will not update again for 12 or even 24 hours. So, if you upload a video that's really popular (but YouTube doesn't like it), and it gets 100,000 views in the first 24 hours, YouTube will simply freeze the counter and not update it for a day. And when they do eventually update the counter, you'll find that it only goes up by a few hundred, or maybe a thousand if you're lucky -- even though your video has received many thousands of ratings and comments. This sneaky method of censorship is so crude and it does YouTube's reputation no good whatsoever. If they want to resort to such pathetic and obvious tactics to censor free-speech then why don't they openly admit to it in their terms of use? What does this say about the people who run YouTube? Think about it. They don't even allow you to email them anymore, and even when you could email them, you'd be lucky to get back an automated pre-written reply. How come nobody at YouTube has the guts to put themselves on camera and talk to their users? What kind of dark shaddowy people are they to hide behind the façade of a web server while imposing their fascist censorship on us? YouTube was made famous by the people who use it. It is US that made YouTube what it is today. But YouTube has gone downhill since the big Fascist-CIA-Google muscled their way into the YouTube boardroom.
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