One Person is Speaking Their Mind

1. KevinT Says:

   March 15th, 2012 at 2:09 am

   Your review is totally wrong and off point. Youtube IS NOT FACEBOOK. It never was. By comparison, facebook is a second rate competetor.

   What the YT complaints are based on is this: PERSONALIZATION. Users had thier own channels which they could design to whatever they so desired. They could display personal bio information, have topical channels, have OFFICIAL ENDORSERS of those channels, and have an active dialog all on channel. They could also OFFICIALLY ENDORSE OTHERS.

   HOWEVER, you could also chose to restrict commercialization and advertising. And that is what google is really about in this new move.

   An example from an actual real life senario: Have you ever heard of the critically acclaimed band/music support channel called TOTALLY MUSIC ARTIST CHANNEL?

   I would wager, no. This is the whole basis of googles arguement for the changes. But lets look a little deeper and see can we find a real rat. GOOGLE SEARCH THOSE 4 WORDS: Totally Music Artist Channel.

   Find it now? Yes you did, AND AT NUMBER ONE ON THE SEARCH RESULT LIST. Now, try and find that with the youtube search. NOTHING.

   That channel is mine. This whole issue is important to me. GOOGLE HAS CENSORED THEIR WHOLE SYSTEM so you only get what they want where they want it.

   Until last Sept, I was OFFICIALLY ENDORSED by the means of OFFICIAL CHANNEL FRIENDS with the following: 230 BANDS & ARTISTS, 25+ record labels, 60+ musicians some very renown such as YANNI, 25+ commercial interests such as PLAYBOY, Maxxim Magazine, and The Boston Globe newspaper.

   But I wasnt google “commercialized” so they started fighting me over a year ago. This started with my visitor count being cut off. Then my friends list was removed from my channel page.

   They then start to argue that I HAD NO PROOF OF VISITOR PARTICIPATION AND ENDRSEMENT BY ANY CREDIBLE INTERESTS.

   BUT they wanted to hijack my famous playlists FOR THIER OWN PLAYER COMPLETE WITH FULL COMMERCIALS. I said NO. So has MILLIONS OF OTHERS.

   You may or may not know that of those 230 bands/artists; ALL OF THEM HAD YT CHANNELS. Some of these are VERY WELL KNOWN ENTITIES, such as TRIUMPH, Paramore, Aerosmith, HEART, Dream Theater, and Carly Simon. THIER CHANNELS ARE NOT FOUND WITH THE YT SEARCH EITHER.

   Instead you get the conglomeration: VEVO. This abomination is a collusion between: GOOGLE, VIACOM, and Sony Music Enterprises aka SME.

   SO even a band can not have the freedom to DISPLAY THEIR OWN PRODUCT ON YT ANYMORE.

   NEITHER CAN THE US WHITE HOUSE which has its own YT channel complete with the presidential seal, OR I SHOULD SAY HAD THE PRESIDENTIAL SEAL. Because now that IS NOT ALLOWED. Thats “customizing”.

   Its currently under hot debate in the US Senate Judiciary Commitee and the US House. Google has managed to hijack the entire internet it seems and YT is just one piece of the puzzle.

   Major questions involving “monoply”, false advertising/truth in labeling, contract fraud (I had an OFFICIAL AND BINDING AGGREEMENT with youtube which is a legal contract in the US. This aggreement laid out several EXPECTED TERMS such as what I was offered and EXPECTED TO GET).

   Last but not least is the good ol standby US FIRST AMENDMENT CLAUSE protecting our rights to free speech and expression. YT as an American company surely will be held to task over this at least in the US.

   Another bothersome issue that wont go away: THE CEO OF YOUTUBE IS A BORN AND RAISED IRANIAN MUSLIM. How he got to that position in todays Homeland Security paranoia is anyones guess, and though I will not argue that mans right to practice his religion, I will take to task the CLEAR ISSUE that it is highly dubious that anything associated with Islam would allow for FREEDOM OF SPEECH OR EXPRESSION OF ANYTHING.

   Bet you also did not know that GOOGLE ACTUALLY HACKED ITS OWN SUBSIDIARY last year when the new “google account” thing went down. Suddenly MILLIONS of people myself included were locked out of youtube until they submitted to the google account sign up……..BUT THE TECH PEOPLE AT YOUTUBE KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS and spent countless phone hours walking people through the YT password reset process.

   This is nothing about “improvement” or “progress”. Its everything about a commercial take over of one of the most beloved sites in the history of the internet, as well as the most famous browser in the world and the corresponding email accounts that were also hacked up for anyone NOT SIGNING IN WITH GOOGLE BROWSER.

   All hell will break loose over this just give it some time. But for those of us like me who are on the front lines in this thoroughly hostile action, WE ALREADY KNEW A YEAR AGO. We have been fighting it out ever since. We refuse to turn over our content for Google INC to profiteer and manipulate. Thats the bottom line.

   Meantime an enormous ammount of content will just dissapear from youtube. Most bands that gave me provision to display their content WILL NOT ALLOW GOOGLE TO which is why the arm twisting Google Inc so harshly did to me this last year so they COULD GAIN ARTIST CONTENT ACCESS VIA THIRD PERSON PROVISION.

   I feel very strongly that Google Inc will be hauled into US Federal Court over all these and more issues and said is probably in process now. I MEAN IMAGINE AN ENTITY AS BIG AND POWERFUL AS PLAYBOY NOT BEING ALLOWED TO DISPLAY THEIR WORLD FAMOUS ICON RABBIT EARS AS BACKGROUND…..some how I dont see them just lying down over that.

   Im not either. I am in preparation of case on behalf of my own interests and have MANY of those bands & artist behind me. This is not about Facebook at all. ITS ABOUT THE PUBLICS RIGHT TO SPEECH AND EXPRESSION and the subsequent right to have our contractual aggreements RECOGNISED.

   Google with its far reaching empire and deep pocketbook had more than ample opportunity to develop its own GOOGLETUBE where all these new developments could have thrived in peace.

   They passed that opportunity up in order to steal MY CHANNEL AND CONTENT. Thats the point and is why OVER 85% OF ALL YOUTUBE USERS GAVE A DISSAPROVE to this this past December. That 85% number is what Google INC cited as “flawed” and threw out ENTIRELY in order to go full steam ahead on the 7th of March 2012.

   One more time they MANIPULATED THE WHOLE THING IN ORDER TO GET WHAT THEY WANTED ONLY. Shame on you goolge. I sincerely hope this costs you BILLIONS.