Okay so bad news for everyone on YouTube right now
Starting the 13th, we will have an AI determine if we are children or not and if you are a child, than you are forced to send your ID, send a selfie or a credit card
This has the obvious cons of having your privacy being revoked from you and and in case there is a security breach, major identity thefts.
So what do we do in this scenario?
Well right now I have real idea as this is relativity new to me, but I do have two plans
Plan 1. Bug the shit out of them, send letters and send emails about how much of bad idea this is.
Include why the AI will mess up and target adults who watch cartoons, include privacy issues, censorship issues, anything you can think of that relates to this. I want you guys to bug the hell out of YouTube until they reverse this idea
Here their address for letters
Send a mass amount of letters on the 5th of August and than another mass amount on the 8th
Plan 2. Blackout.
Since the thing is coming out on the 13th.
The plan will be to completely avoid YouTube at all cost for that day (and beyond), no watching, no sharing, no uploading, no nothing.
Download videos before things go down, watch Netflix. Whatever you do, don’t touch YouTube.
That’s all I can say right now, I also want you guys to let YouTubers know of this situation cause if it’s important for everyone on the website to talk about this immediately
Spread this stuff around, let people know of YouTube’s upcoming policy and how it’ll hurt everyone
Edit: I have taken into consideration and I am going to agree that the blackout should be until the decision is reversed, this is so we are not out at risk as users and so YouTube doesn’t just ignore the original black out
I might have a more detailed plan posted later today, but it depends on everything goes
Another edit: just to remind yall to send in letters and emails about this to google to force their hands to reverse this decision
There is also the law itself, though I can’t speak much on it other than finding lawing bodies that can force YouTube to reverse this decision. If anyone can find a place to file or call for this, that will be greatly appreciated! (I heard maybe the FTC and or the California Consumer privacy right can be considered, but that needs more research)
BIGGER UPDATE: we have a new plan in motion, here is the updated plan for you all to see
💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · Okay, so here’s the updated plans for fighting against youtube's new ai age policy and privacy violating rule (I believe in
and also here's a petition to stop the law that would help support this into becoming a thing
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr
and also a tumblr post about it and how you can help further prevent this from being allowed in office
💬 63 🔁 18974 ❤️ 12112 · Hey guys something fucking bad happened · KOSA/the kids online safety act has been reintroduced into legislature a
Don’t forget to send this fellow people outside of tumblr
YouTubers, Twitter users, send it through out and make sure you are heard
I don't want YouTube to start policing people and demanding personal information from them based on whether AI thinks you might be under 18 or not, especially based on viewing habits! There's already a YouTube Kids, it should be up to parents to make sure their children aren't watching stuff they shouldn't be exposed to! Keep the rest of us out of it, don't treat us like we might be babies!
If YouTube actually goes forward and rolls out with this, then I'm not releasing any videos after August 12. I had a bunch scheduled ahead of time, but guess what? Now those are getting pushed back until September. Not sure how long it would take for them to reverse such a decision, but I figure a couple of weeks should do the trick. If not, I can always push them back further, but if we succeed, I can reschedule them to upload sooner.
It might actually be an interesting time for us to all get off of YouTube for a while and find other avenues of entertainment, maybe touch grass for a bit. I've already felt like I'm personally more addicted than ever to watching stuff on YouTube, so I'm long overdue for a break. Also I'm gonna be on vacation starting on the 14th, so I'll have the perfect reason to avoid YouTube altogether for a while!
Hundreds of thousands of people came out today in London to March for a Free Palestine. Hundreds of thousands of people disagreeing with the current government stance on the war. Don’t let the media fool you, people in the UK stand with Palestine.
There are ads here on tumblr as well. Tiktok is putting warnings on videos of people who are only mentioning what is happening in palestine. Instagram is deleting accounts of people who are reporting straight from gaza.
Biden questioned the number of deaths reported in Gaza, after which the health ministry came out with a report over 200 hundred pages long with personal information on the killed individuals.
24 journalists have been killed in 21 days.
Yesterday internet and phone services in Gaza went down, due to the heavy bombardments.
The voice of the people in palestine is being silenced in every way you can imagine.
So the least you can do, is share what is going on. Use all your platforms. Even this one.
the thing is israel basically belongs to the united states. it is funded by our government. they test weapons for us. when the us defends israel it is not defending a sibling nation where there might be room for them to break away or disagree, it is defending its own military interests. i think this is important for understanding why the states are acting this way and to make it clear this is something US citizens are directly involved in, as much as any other cruel, imperialistic war we are told to support, only to be apologized for as wrong decades later. you can apologize for the deaths once you have already benefitted from the deaths. that is how these things go but it is always essential to fight that pattern because we already know how it ends if we were to let it play out. none of this is new, for all the claims of complexity, it is the same old playbook and we must recognize it for what it is and fight it as we would any other demand for crimes against humanity in the name of "peace". learn from the past, learn from each other, learn from those who have been fighting this struggle longer than we have been alive. mass opposition to US imperialism, to settler colonialism, to """justified""" genocide is the only way.
to those in the notes asking what can be done, here are some resources to get you started. most of the scripts list is targeted towards a U.S. audience but should be possible to modify for use elsewhere depending on where you live.
call scripts (most can easily be modified into email scripts as well):
contact your city council to put out a statement in support of palestine
contact your senators/representatives to support the ceasefire bill
contact your senator to support something like the ceasefire bill (alternate script for senators who are voting in favor of israel)
contact your representative to support the ceasefire bill (alternate script for senators who are voting in favor of israel)
list of protests (including a link to free transportation to them and a way to donate to support that free transportation)
a post on how to archive the events and information being shared online
BDS has existed for a long time as a way to support palestine and protest israel's violence, i highly recommend spending some time on their website
there are also many donation links going around which are compiled in other posts. i am currently getting a lot of mileage out of sharing the games for gaza bundle on itch, as it is very easy to bring up in conversation. if you are in discord servers with gaming channels, it is a very easy way to bring people's conversation and attention back to palestine by sharing it.
keep sharing!! keep talking! don't look away. give these resources to other people and keep listening to and boosting palestinian voices. that's what has been asked of us. your words ARE important right now. there would not be so much effort to silence and shut down the public's cries for justice and freedom if there were no effect.
i’m not experienced with clay and this was so rushed and the clay had been sitting on my shelf for like a year but LOOK AT HER ANYWAY!!!! I MADE A THING
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