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New YouTube User Terms
2020-11-19
The below appeared in my email Inbox today. It looks to me like they intend to stop Andy Ngo and others, including police and the FBI, who’ve been identifying Antifa/BLM miscreants from the action videos they’ve posted. Also something about monetizing, which suggests to me they want to take for the company the income posters have been earning on the videos they’ve uploaded.

It’s odd that I got this email, since I do not remember signing up for a YouTube account.
Update at 9:45 a.m. ET: Apologies — it was today yesterday, when I posted this. Today I got the email yesterday.
You're receiving this email because we're updating the YouTube Terms of Service ("Terms") to clarify our terms and provide transparency to our users. These changes shouldn't significantly alter your access or use of the YouTube service.

A summary of the changes:
  • Facial recognition restrictions: The Terms of Service already state that you cannot collect any information that might identify a person without their permission. While this has always included facial recognition information, the new Terms make that explicitly clear.

  • YouTube's right to monetize: YouTube has the right to monetize all content on the platform and ads may appear on videos from channels not in the YouTube Partner Program.

  • Royalty payments and tax withholding: For creators entitled to revenue payments, such payments will be treated as royalties from a U.S. tax perspective and Google will withhold taxes where required by law.

Please make sure you read the updated Terms carefully. The new Terms will take effect on 18 November, 2020 for users in the U.S., and similar changes to our Terms of Service will be made outside the U.S. in 2021. By continuing to use YouTube after this date, you are agreeing to the new Terms. If you would like more information, visit our Help Center.
Posted by:trailing wife

#6  Parler and Rumble are the first places to start - replaces Twatter and Youtube
Posted by: Theager Borgia1057   2020-11-19 23:48  

#5  ^... because Google's the, uh, publisher?
(oops)
Posted by: Gomez Schwarzeneggar9743   2020-11-19 17:59  

#4  For creators entitled to revenue payments, such payments will be treated as royalties from a U.S. tax perspective and Google will withhold taxes where required by law.

Wouldn't it be up to the individual creator to pay any taxes on royalties when they file with the IRS? Why would this be up to Google to withhold?
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-11-19 16:33  

#3  Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google, Amazon... whatever. Stop whining about their platform and develop your own.

A web server is all you need to post videos on the Internet. That's it, really. Rantburg could host videos. Yeah, the server must have adequate storage, CPU and bandwidth but it's really no more complicated than that.

The Internet needs diversity too, right?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-11-19 10:22  

#2  /\ Until they "sell-out". But one can only hope these viable alternatives thrive
Posted by: Clem   2020-11-19 06:42  

#1  Seems this will push business to their up and coming competition.
Posted by: gorb   2020-11-19 01:49  

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