BBC World Service 1998 Brain of Britain 3/3

Has YouTube Outlived Itself?

Has YouTube outlived its usefulness to small YouTube creators who are an overwhelming majority on the platform?

Over the past year +, something very wrong has been ongoing at YouTube.

YouTube under CEO Wojcicki has been engaged in deceptive practices and even what amounts to fraud in its dealings with small YouTube Creator channels.

YouTube's MO now seems to be to get as many people as possible to upload videos while denying channel monetization to the overwhelming majority of uploaders who happen to be small creators.

As far as YouTube is concerned, it works very well as they still can and do make money on unmonetized videos by making them available to paying viewing public subscribing to YouTube Premium.

But they still like to dangle the carrot of channel monetization in front of people with small channels so people keep uploading and watching videos on the platform and, to this end, greedily lie that new YouTubers can have their channels monetized once they get 4,000 hours of views and over 1,000 subscribers.

But the reality is that they are lying and most channels reaching 4,000 view hours per year and 1,000 subscribers will never be approved for monetization -- ostensibly for the reason of failing YouTube's review of compliance with their policies, for example, because "re-used" content will be found on such channels (without specifying what that content is and in which videos it can allegedly be found), and you can count on the fact that Re-Used content will be found; if not, they will come up with some other reason not to approve monetization or will just suspend the decision for ever.

Also, YouTube's so called policies, against which new channels are supposedly reviewed, are changing every month in line with the dictates of YouTube bosses' all-consuming greed and with a view to getting more content for less and less in outlay and expenditure.

It is important to remember that in 2018 YouTube already demonetized tens if not hundreds of millions of small creator channels that had been fully in compliance with YouTube's so-called policies in effect at the time. Their only fault was YouTube's unwillingness to pay those channels for content anymore, however little that pay was per individual channel (still amounting to hundreds of millions over all such channels).

Also, over the same period, YouTube deprecated many extremely useful features, claiming they didn't see much use - but they were lying here again because the principal motive force in these deprecations was again greed pure and simple - the desire on the part of YouTube bosses to reduce expenditure and to make YouTube smaller and cheaper to run with less features.

It is therefore hard to avoid reaching the conclusion that YouTube is now greedy, rotten to the core, stinks and is nothing but a criminal gang of greedy thieving capitalists, appropriating people's videos for own commercial use (over YouTube Premium if nothing else) and as ever operating outside the spirit and even the letter of applicable laws in most countries while faking concern over topical issues and using them as a pretext to squeeze YouTube uploaders even more.

So, in light of the above, my suggestion is not to upload videos on YouTube anymore and even not to watch YouTube at all but if you still do, don't ever pay them for anything, especially for YouTube Premium, make them work for free, and use a good ad blocker too.

Kitchen Radio: Panasonic RF-3500 E-9K

My Panasonic RF-3500 E-9K in the kitchen.

Photos with posterization effect.

BBC World Service Radio - JAZZ FOR THE ASKING with Malcolm Laycock

1998 BBC World Service Program

Here is a 1998 BBC World Service programme.

It is for April - November 1998.

BBC on CRI

The BBC news mentions CRI in a current affairs article on "Chinese spying" and not favorably either.

"The radio signal is powerful. On a recent Sunday, listeners in Washington learned about Chinese satellites hurling through space and other achievements of the Beijing government. In contrast the news bulletins, which are produced by China Radio International, tended to strike an ominous tone when reporting on the US economy".

Well, in my opinion the BBC World Service has nothing to be proud of when it comes to objectivity or balanced and even truthful reporting.

Also, it is well documented how the BBC World Service was used to communicate coded messages to British spies (the 1953 Iran coup) and that many BBC World Service correspondent were (and likely are) British secret service operatives on the side.

I have many CRI reception reports on this blog; I also have a huge BBC reception archive and many reception recordings, look for them elsewhere on the blog - use My Radio Archive listing below on the right.

Radio Moscow World Service - 1986 Communist Party of Canada Leader at Co...

BBC World Service 1998 Brain of Britain 2/3

Grundig S450DLX on Kitchen FM Surfing Duty

Here is my 2011 Grundig S450DLX on FM surfing duty in the kitchen!

The main entry on this radio is here - Grundig S450DLX.

DLT's A Jolly Good Show 2 - December 1994

DLT's A Jolly Good Show 3 - December 1994

Ritmix RPR-7011 aka Degen DE 319 in a Garden

Here is my Ritmix RPR-7011 aka Degen DE 319 radio in my garden last October 2018.

 Main entry on this radio is here.

Forum pictures.

DLT A Jolly Good Show 23 - 1996