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don't share private info about OTHER people in relation to you (younger sibs, parents/partners in unique jobs, YOUR OWN CHILDREN, your neighbors, your coworkers, etc.)
don't give out your full name including middle names and suffixes like "Jr", e.g. things that can legally identify you
and for godssake NO SEXUAL INFO or PICS <<< this goes for minors, but the rest of you aren't suddenly safe from predators and consequences either!
stop giving away all the info that could hurt you to people you have never met and should not trust
I have a very cool tidbit on how the capital B is done in Black ASL (which is its own dialect that developed from the segregation of Deaf schools). For full disclosure, I am absolutely not Black but learned this from my ASL teacher who is. If anyone reading this has more info please add on!
Ok, so there are 3 signs that could be used to say that someone is Black, or to represent a Black person. You could use the sign for the color (black) along with the agent marker to represent a person. That looks like this:
You can also sign African American, which isnāt usually used.
The other sign is Black. Youāll notice that in writing, āblackā is not capitalized, while āBlackā is. This is partially because the sign āBlackā is only used by the Black community. In fact, using the sign āBlackā when youāre not Black is seen as rude or cultural appropriation! According to Jeremy Lee Stone, a Black Deaf actor, āBlackā is a ācultural perspective specific to Black ASL. It is used by those who are proud of their Black identity. While white people can use the sign āblackā, they shouldn't use āBlack."ā
Hereās a gif of a Black signer showing the physical difference:
And hereās a short video going over why the sign is used that way: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5rcjhXXjNPc&pp=iggCQAE%3D
Teaching children/teens basic internet safety rules such as not giving out personal information (name, age, etc.) and internet stranger danger
Informing parents/guardians about the existence of the YouTube Kids app before they hand the unfiltered iPad to a kid to watch
Informing about YouTube Teen Accounts
More online teen spaces such as MMOs, pet sites, and RP forums with site rules to keep things appropriate
Emphasis of report and block buttons if something said in said spaces makes someone uncomfortable and/or breaks site rules
Game support forums not being locked to Discord servers and easily accessible to the entire userbase
Parental blocks that restrict downloading dedicated "adult community" apps
In mixed age online spaces, adults being less hesitant about using built in content filters such as tags and mature content labels
Parents/guardians understanding age ratings on items such as movies and video games, especially R and M
Parents, guardians, and trusted adults (ex. teachers, librarians) being available to listen and discuss when a topic is confusing (and not immediately get mad and complain about the material)
Better access to youth library materials (ex. young adult)
More/better offline teen spaces and access to hobbies without too much unnecessary expense
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I am begging all of you please please please read a book. I donāt care what about. I donāt care how long it is. please just try to find the time to read a book soon. your literacy is an absolute fucking gift that should be treasured and nurtured.
Just spreading this petition along. If you don't want AI to decide you're a child on YouTube, or make you give up personal information to prove you're not, please consider signing.
Or, boycott by not using YouTube on August 13th (or longer).
Okay, so hereās the updated plans for fighting against youtube's new ai age policy and privacy violating rule (I believe in us!)
Plan 1. Black out and leave youtube/ youtube boycott (August 13 to the point where the policy is gone)
Itās a very simple plan, but this time we just leave until itās fully reversed. That way YouTube doesnāt just ignore us and the original black out. We have to stand our ground and show them we arenāt going to give up. We have to last as long as possible and let their revenue drain until they concede or someone else comes in and makes another platform (that isnāt based on politics but the same ideas as the original YouTube)
Plus I would like to add some small extra things that will help with the blackout though. That being mass downloading YouTube content. Now this might be the easiest thing for certain people, but itās something.
Mass downloading YouTube content can help in case there a couple of videos or channels you want to watch during the blackout.
(I use something called a ytdlp but there might be better options for you out there, there might even be built in ones in a web browser or two, just search around the place, you'll find it eventually)
Forget what I said about alternatives that block YouTube, avoid anything that even remotely connects to YouTube. If it connects to YouTube it still provides traffic and helps it out, we want to disconnect from it completely, donāt let it have a drop of traffic
Plan 2. Bugging the crap out of them.
Now since they have a mail box for us to use, that can be used for our advantage here. So hereās what we do, send them letters asking them to reverse the decision, that way they will be overwhelmed by letters that have to eventually give up. Now I don't want you guys to send out slurs, curses or whatever. I need you guys to be kind and critical. I want you to point everything wrong with this and why it is destined to fail and leave the company crumbling
In addition to these letters, if at all possible, I want you guys to include photos of comments made by other people (Twitter, tumblr, whatever) criticizing this and making it known that itās not just you guys who are angry, but people all over too.
Now we can also include emails in this, but that might be harder than excepted, but in case you do want to send in a email, you can send it that way
I can't find any other way of sending them an email, but good to you if you do find it (though I would recommend a letter much more)
UPDATE, someone has pointed out that we should all send out our letters on a single day, Im taking around August 5th about a week before the thing actually rolls out and than maybe weāll do another batch on the 8th just in case
Make sure you mass send a bunch of letters
WIP plan 3, legal bull
I wish I could say this plan was finished, but unfortunately, it is not at all. All we have to go for here to filing a complaint towards the FTC about this and or using what this user recommneds (though I can't fully say if it'll work or not)
This plan will be worked on as much as possible
I want everyone if they can to spread to outside of tumblr, talk about it on twitter, facebook, blusky, youtube itself, this plan has to spread to as much people as possible.
I believe we can do our best and shine a light through these horrible times, we can be light in the darkness that will help others shine a burn a hole in this horrible system of censorship
I believe in every last one of you, I believe you can do good and spread good, because in your hearts, you are good
If you have any other ideas, let me know, cause i know more minds are better than one.
Good luck!
Update! We have a discord server now! We will be planning, spreading news and of course sharing ways to deal with YouTubeās ID policy
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