What Youtube Rewind's Historic Fallout & Response Means, Taylor Swift Privacy Controversy, & More
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Date: 2019-11-01
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The Reaver King
Hey Phil, I think it's important to protect one's self from potential threats especially when you're a personality like Taylor Swift where your face is going to be recognized wherever you go. That being said I'd feel a lot more comfortable if they deleted all non pertinent information as soon as they checked it against their databases. It's troubling to think that you're going to go have fun at an event as a teenager but your face is now forever on a database that you have no idea exists. It's as some have said a slippery slope towards a dystopia I don't want to be a part of, reminds me of the movie Minority Report, where privacy and anonymity is an illegal commodity that people seek when it seems they've been wrongfully accused of a crime or action. If this is the future were moving towards I'd rather wait for laws that accompany this type of technology to put hard limits on the data collected and the oversight received on such information. I'm from Panama (the country not the Florida city per your request. Panama is also a virtual gold mine of incredibly unbelievable news stories related to politics and international relations with countries like China and the US. You should probably explore a little bit of what's happening around here to get a bit more perspective on American and Asian relations currently. Were a small but history and controversy filled nation, currently undergoing one of the largest corruption scandals in history).
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Hey Phil, I think it's important to protect one's self from potential threats especially when you're a personality like Taylor Swift where your face is going to be recognized wherever you go. That being said I'd feel a lot more comfortable if they deleted all non pertinent information as soon as they checked it against their databases. It's troubling to think that you're going to go have fun at an event as a teenager but your face is now forever on a database that you have no idea exists. It's as some have said a slippery slope towards a dystopia I don't want to be a part of, reminds me of the movie Minority Report, where privacy and anonymity is an illegal commodity that people seek when it seems they've been wrongfully accused of a crime or action. If this is the future were moving towards I'd rather wait for laws that accompany this type of technology to put hard limits on the data collected and the oversight received on such information. I'm from Panama (the country not the Florida city per your request. Panama is also a virtual gold mine of incredibly unbelievable news stories related to politics and international relations with countries like China and the US. You should probably explore a little bit of what's happening around here to get a bit more perspective on American and Asian relations currently. Were a small but history and controversy filled nation, currently undergoing one of the largest corruption scandals in history).
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BethAnn Mayberry
As a Hard-of-Hearing person who uses texting almost exclusively, the idea that they would use a tax on texting to help fund Deaf services sounds RIDICULOUS. While I am sure there are some old folks in the Deaf community who still rely on a TTY and relay systems to communicate, I believe far more make use of newer tech like face time. AND TEXT MESSAGING. No expensive accessibility machines, socially acceptable communication used in both the Deaf and hearing worlds (thus leveling the field in trying to survive in this society, etc. I can't speak for all Deaf or HoH, but IMHO, taxing text messaging to benefit Deaf programs seems like a thief picking your pocket so they can buy you lunch with your money and expecting you to be grateful for it. Or am I way off? I'm just HoH, and lost my hearing later on, so while I really love Deaf culture and ASL, I acknowledge that I am way more in the hearing world most of the time. Any Beautiful Deaf Bds out there wanna weigh in? Anyway, glad I'm not in California. I have a lot of family there and already it's WAY too expensive.
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As a Hard-of-Hearing person who uses texting almost exclusively, the idea that they would use a tax on texting to help fund Deaf services sounds RIDICULOUS. While I am sure there are some old folks in the Deaf community who still rely on a TTY and relay systems to communicate, I believe far more make use of newer tech like face time. AND TEXT MESSAGING. No expensive accessibility machines, socially acceptable communication used in both the Deaf and hearing worlds (thus leveling the field in trying to survive in this society, etc. I can't speak for all Deaf or HoH, but IMHO, taxing text messaging to benefit Deaf programs seems like a thief picking your pocket so they can buy you lunch with your money and expecting you to be grateful for it. Or am I way off? I'm just HoH, and lost my hearing later on, so while I really love Deaf culture and ASL, I acknowledge that I am way more in the hearing world most of the time. Any Beautiful Deaf Bds out there wanna weigh in? Anyway, glad I'm not in California. I have a lot of family there and already it's WAY too expensive.
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WeeItsNookies
The normies should be made aware of how things are going with youtube. The rewind 2018 got tons of dislikes because youtube was trying to go way too mainstream. Using mainstream celebs isn't helping either. Especially considering how people like Steven Crowder actually have more views and ratings than the political late night shows. Then you have biased outlets like Vox failing and dying and losing to all the political commentators here. They are basically trying to turn youtube into what TV and radio was 20 years ago. Extremely censored and hella boring. All because large companies want to advertise their crap products. Regardless if someone cares about politics or not just know the way things are going will ultimately impact youtubers (cough pewdiepie) more and more. Youtube was about the creator. Now youtube is shitting on creators to appeal to the mainstream. There's a bigger meaning behind the dislike bar.
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The normies should be made aware of how things are going with youtube. The rewind 2018 got tons of dislikes because youtube was trying to go way too mainstream. Using mainstream celebs isn't helping either. Especially considering how people like Steven Crowder actually have more views and ratings than the political late night shows. Then you have biased outlets like Vox failing and dying and losing to all the political commentators here. They are basically trying to turn youtube into what TV and radio was 20 years ago. Extremely censored and hella boring. All because large companies want to advertise their crap products. Regardless if someone cares about politics or not just know the way things are going will ultimately impact youtubers (cough pewdiepie) more and more. Youtube was about the creator. Now youtube is shitting on creators to appeal to the mainstream. There's a bigger meaning behind the dislike bar.
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Erik Soto
To put things into perspective. YouTube has grown exponentially for the last 5 years. The amount of content creators on the site and viewership is crazy af. Before in like 2012 everyone on the site knew all the biggest youtubers. Now most of the planet tunes into the site. Also keep in mind how damn sensitive everyone got. We arent in the MW2 days anymore where no one was nice. Now a days we got people calling fortnite content creators being called toxic. Everyone got too sensitive. So dont be mad at YouTube. They are in a lose lose situation regarding making people happy. If they put youtubers who were controversial Phil would be making a video on how the world got pissed at them for giving them a platform. Its crazy honestly. YouTube grew into something where they can please everyone, their target audience is now ages 5-40. Its impossible to please everyone now with the scale YouTube has grown to.
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To put things into perspective. YouTube has grown exponentially for the last 5 years. The amount of content creators on the site and viewership is crazy af. Before in like 2012 everyone on the site knew all the biggest youtubers. Now most of the planet tunes into the site. Also keep in mind how damn sensitive everyone got. We arent in the MW2 days anymore where no one was nice. Now a days we got people calling fortnite content creators being called toxic. Everyone got too sensitive. So dont be mad at YouTube. They are in a lose lose situation regarding making people happy. If they put youtubers who were controversial Phil would be making a video on how the world got pissed at them for giving them a platform. Its crazy honestly. YouTube grew into something where they can please everyone, their target audience is now ages 5-40. Its impossible to please everyone now with the scale YouTube has grown to.
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Eshcole.com
On the Taylor Swift, face recognition thing. It's absolutely a slippery slope but can't help but think that creators like Christina Grimmie would still be here had there be some technology in place actively tracking all who showed up to the meet greet. Creators like Meg Turney probably wouldn't have had her house broken into had this technology identified, tracked, and reported the stalker to the police before hand. At the same time, we would be crazy to actually trust whatever company that runs this to actually not use our data for something other then security. To that, I have no real answer cause the fact of the matter is, our data has never been safe at any point and time. It's only in the last few years have people actually started paying attention cause the news outlets realized they can make a buck off of informing us. for now.
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On the Taylor Swift, face recognition thing. It's absolutely a slippery slope but can't help but think that creators like Christina Grimmie would still be here had there be some technology in place actively tracking all who showed up to the meet greet. Creators like Meg Turney probably wouldn't have had her house broken into had this technology identified, tracked, and reported the stalker to the police before hand. At the same time, we would be crazy to actually trust whatever company that runs this to actually not use our data for something other then security. To that, I have no real answer cause the fact of the matter is, our data has never been safe at any point and time. It's only in the last few years have people actually started paying attention cause the news outlets realized they can make a buck off of informing us. for now.
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Earl Francart
taylor swift should have let people know this was being done. granted i can see a need to keep track of stalkers. how ever, theres a line that shouldnt be crossed, and out of respect for her fans, it should have been announced that they were gonna do this. before tickets were sold for the concert. while im not a big fan of hers, i know plenty of people who are, and a number of them wouldnt have gone to the concert if they had known, as its a privacy issue. also how is it being implemented? is it just taking everyones pics and then scanning for the stalker? are all of the pics kept? disgarded? sold to companies? like advertisers? the gov? it runs into similar problems like google glass, recording randome strangers. and google giving you their info. lines need to be drawn.
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taylor swift should have let people know this was being done. granted i can see a need to keep track of stalkers. how ever, theres a line that shouldnt be crossed, and out of respect for her fans, it should have been announced that they were gonna do this. before tickets were sold for the concert. while im not a big fan of hers, i know plenty of people who are, and a number of them wouldnt have gone to the concert if they had known, as its a privacy issue. also how is it being implemented? is it just taking everyones pics and then scanning for the stalker? are all of the pics kept? disgarded? sold to companies? like advertisers? the gov? it runs into similar problems like google glass, recording randome strangers. and google giving you their info. lines need to be drawn.
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Kelsi Jenison
Im fine with the facial scanning as long as they let people know that its going to happen when they purchase their tickets. Something along the lines that they will be recorded or something to that effect. They dont have to give the nitty gritty details. I would be pissed if I paid that much money for tickets and then found out I was going to be recorded at the event. I dont want to be recorded, but I dont want to waste hundreds of dollars either. I would also want to know what was done with the data afterward. I assume there are a lot of parents bringing their kids to her shows, and I would not be okay with someone recording my kid without my knowledge or without knowledge of where the data would go once her security team was done with it.
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Im fine with the facial scanning as long as they let people know that its going to happen when they purchase their tickets. Something along the lines that they will be recorded or something to that effect. They dont have to give the nitty gritty details. I would be pissed if I paid that much money for tickets and then found out I was going to be recorded at the event. I dont want to be recorded, but I dont want to waste hundreds of dollars either. I would also want to know what was done with the data afterward. I assume there are a lot of parents bringing their kids to her shows, and I would not be okay with someone recording my kid without my knowledge or without knowledge of where the data would go once her security team was done with it.
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jfbeam
A retroactive tax? What f'ing country do they think California is in? Yes, texts (SMS) are entirely telecommunications as they are handled by, and flow through the exact same network as voice -- turn off voice (eg. FreedomPop Sprint data-only SIM, and SMS won't work. MMS, however, is a data service -- turn off data and 99 times out of 100 MMS won't work. They aren't talking about taxing text _messages_ but text _messaging_ -- the line item for text services on your bill. For your One Rate(tm, unlimited talk-text-and-data plan, you're very likely already paying various taxes on everything because they aren't separate items.
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A retroactive tax? What f'ing country do they think California is in? Yes, texts (SMS) are entirely telecommunications as they are handled by, and flow through the exact same network as voice -- turn off voice (eg. FreedomPop Sprint data-only SIM, and SMS won't work. MMS, however, is a data service -- turn off data and 99 times out of 100 MMS won't work. They aren't talking about taxing text _messages_ but text _messaging_ -- the line item for text services on your bill. For your One Rate(tm, unlimited talk-text-and-data plan, you're very likely already paying various taxes on everything because they aren't separate items.
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Rachel Hawkins
I think something that would make YouTube Rewind better is if they picked some creators, gave them the budget and let them create a 30 second spot in whichever way they feel represents them, or the year, or their year. Then compile all the clips together and you get a really cool collaborative piece of work. YouTube could even give creators a theme to work with. To Marques's point, the new Rewind would essentially be an ad for YouTube and the creator while discussing big themes throughout the year. I'd love to see what each creator came up with It's not a perfect solution but I think it would be cool to see.
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I think something that would make YouTube Rewind better is if they picked some creators, gave them the budget and let them create a 30 second spot in whichever way they feel represents them, or the year, or their year. Then compile all the clips together and you get a really cool collaborative piece of work. YouTube could even give creators a theme to work with. To Marques's point, the new Rewind would essentially be an ad for YouTube and the creator while discussing big themes throughout the year. I'd love to see what each creator came up with It's not a perfect solution but I think it would be cool to see.
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