[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #649: As YouTube grows, so do its problems

Wed Jun 5 10:30:01 EDT 2019

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OPLIN 4Cast #649: As YouTube grows, so do its problems
June 5th, 2019

[image: Breaking wall with painted logo of YouTube. Crisis conceptual
editorial 3D rendering] Can you imagine the world without YouTube?
Certainly, if I asked my teenage son to try that exercise, he'd look at me
like I belong in a psychiatric ward. Much of his allotted screen time is
spent watching all manner of things on the platform, especially those that
revolve around other people playing video games he enjoys. But, who among
us hasn't watched a cute animal clip or a funny satire video? Followed a
tutorial for a new skill we need to learn? The purposes of YouTube are
many...and, unfortunately, as the uses have propagated, so have the issues.

   -
   - On YouTube’s Digital Playground, an Open Gate for Pedophiles
   <https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/world/americas/youtube-pedophiles.html>
   [New York Times] " YouTube’s automated recommendation system — which drives
   most of the platform’s billions of views by suggesting what users should
   watch next — had begun showing the video to users who watched other videos
   of prepubescent, partially clothed children, a team of researchers has
   found."
   - YouTube Probes Show By Right-Winger Steven Crowder Over Accusations Of
   Anti-Gay Rants
   <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/carlos-maza-steven-crowder-youtube_n_5cf477f1e4b0a1997b6c6fed>[Huffington
   Post] "Carlos Maza, who hosts the Vox show 'Strikethrough,' complained to
   YouTube and posted a mashup of rants on Twitter that showed Crowder mocking
   <https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vox-carlos-maza-anti-gay-harassment-youtube_n_5cf16f4ee4b0e8085e39b34b>Maza’s
   ethnicity, mannerisms and calling him a 'lispy queer.' "
   - How YouTube Became a Breeding Ground for a Diabolical Lizard Cult
   <https://newrepublic.com/article/154012/youtube-became-breeding-ground-diabolical-lizard-cult>
   [The New Republic] " What connects the lizard-headed reptilians and Trump’s
   army of ghoulish trolls is YouTube, which promulgates this cottage-industry
   in conspiratorial speculation with little oversight or regulation. Like
   other internet giants, YouTube has struggled to differentiate between fact
   and fiction, between legitimate media outlets and manic peddlers of
   disinformation—and there are few reasons to believe that it will resolve
   any of these first-order problems of basic online legitimacy any time soon."
   - YouTubers and record labels are fighting, and record labels keep
   winning
   <https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/24/18635904/copyright-youtube-creators-dmca-takedown-fair-use-music-cover>
   [The Verge] " But in April, nearly five years and 600,000 views later, he
   received an email from YouTube notifying him that Warner Music Group had
   claimed copyright over a 15-second video clip he included of Iron Maiden.
   As a result, the entire video would now be blocked."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - The dark psychology behind YouTube's success
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=136261541&site=ehost-live>
   ( Stokel-Walker, C. (2019). The dark psychology behind YouTube’s
success. *New
   Scientist*, *242*(3227), 42–43. )
   - YouTube “Fact Checks” Videos Skeptical of Man-made Climate Change
   <http://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=131377699>
   ( YouTube “Fact Checks” Videos Skeptical of Man-made Climate Change.
   (2018). *New American (08856540)*, *34*(17), 7. )
   - Can YouTube Be Safe for Tweens? Despite new safety measures, YouTube
   is still risky
   <https://oplin.org/auth/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ebscohost.com%2Flogin.aspx%3Fdirect%3Dtrue%26db%3Dcmh%26AN%3D130251951%26site%3Dehost-live>
   ( Fleming, W. (2018). Can YouTube Be Safe for Tweens? Despite new safety
   measures, YouTube is still risky. *Your Teen for Parents*, *10*(5),
   52–53. )

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