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.
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.