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Google Is Not Deleting Old YouTube Videos
Google has backtracked on its plan to delete inactive YouTube videos—at least for now. Of course, it could change its mind anytime it wants.
It would be nice if this would get people to think about the vulnerabilities inherent in letting a for-profit monopoly decide what of human creativity is worth saving.
Tags: Google, social media, videos
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anonymous •
I wish Google would delete its surveillance operations…which would be most of itself.
Hmm … you used to be an IBM executive and an entrepreneur, and yet you have doubts about laissez faire capitalism? Surely you know that, in this age of extremism and polarization, you may only choose one of the two binary-opposed positions? Either you are a devoted Marxist, or an exaggerated hyper-libertarian. Pick one.
Bruce Schneier •
@Carl Fink
I assume this is meant to be parody, so I won’t engage in the substance. But, for the record, I was never an IBM executive. I sold a company to IBM. But, because the actual IBM executives were afraid of what I might do — yeah, I know, weird — they wouldn’t make me an IBM employee like everyone else at Resilient Systems. So I was a contractor for the two years I had an affiliation with them.
iAPX •
Keeping video contents that don’t generate revenue any more is clearly not the mission of YouTube or Alphabet, and it go against the first mission of any company: generate value for the investors.
I like the US Library of Congress as they put a lot of effort, and taxpayer money, into building an incredible library and then expanding it to software.
I wonder if they could have a deal with YouTube and the other platforms to find a way to preserve streamed video content as well?
As a photographer, going from film camera to digital ones between ’95 and ’05, I appreciate the incredible capabilities of digital media, but it came with a blunder: how to store digital pictures (or digital videos) on the long run, to ensure it will stay for decades if not a century, as for late 19th century pictures of my ancestors?!?
In this novel era of digital society, it seems that our paste is erasing way faster than it was in the latest centuries!
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