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Irish Times: Social media firms face fines of up to €20 million for breaches of Ireland’s first online safety code

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Irish Times: Social media firms face fines of up to €20 million for breaches of Ireland’s first online safety code. “Ireland’s first online safety code will require social media and video-sharing platforms to protect children from harmful content or face the prospect of fines of up to €20 million. Coimisiún na Meán, Ireland’s new body for regulating broadcasters, on-demand services and online media, has today opened a public consultation on its draft online safety code for video-sharing platform services.”

The Verge: YouTubers can now pause comments after Google moderation tweaks

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The Verge: YouTubers can now pause comments after Google moderation tweaks. “YouTube has introduced a new moderation tool for creators that allows them to pause comments, preventing any new comments from being added to videos while preserving those that have already been posted.”

RTÉ: Hate speech ads approved on social media, investigation finds

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RTÉ: Hate speech ads approved on social media, investigation finds. “Facebook, X, TikTok and YouTube have all approved adverts featuring extreme and violent misogynistic hate speech against women journalists in South Africa, according to a new investigation by Global Witness and the South African public interest law firm, Legal Resources Centre.”

Boing Boing: Six months jail for YouTuber who filmed self bailing out of plane for the views

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Boing Boing: Six months jail for YouTuber who filmed self bailing out of plane for the views. “Trevor Jacob, the YouTuber who bailed out of his own plane and later admitted that he did it for the views, is off to jail for six months over the November 2021 stunt. Jacobs earlier plead guilty to obstructing a federal investigation, having recovered and destroyed the wreckage himself to make sure the NTSB couldn’t get its hands on it.”

Korea JoongAng Daily: Government asks YouTubers to curb their drinking on camera

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Korea JoongAng Daily: Government asks YouTubers to curb their drinking on camera. “The government has published new guidelines meant to discourage YouTubers from hosting drunk talk shows. Some regard them to be unenforceable. Local reports had previously showed that parents, in particular, are worried that seeing jovial drinking on YouTube will make their children think positively of heavy drinking culture.”

Know Your Meme: HBomberguy vs. James Somerton Plagiarism Scandal

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Know Your Meme: HBomberguy vs. James Somerton Plagiarism Scandal. “HBomberguy vs. James Somerton Plagiarism Scandal refers to YouTuber Hbomberguy’s takedown of fellow YouTuber James Somerton in a December 2023 video titled, ‘Plagiarism and You(Tube).’ Somerton, a YouTube essayist who primarily discusses LGBTQ+ representation in popular media, was the primary focus of a nearly four-hour-long video that also criticized YouTubers like Internet Historian and Illuminaughtii for repackaging work created by other writers without providing adequate citations.”

Engadget: Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers

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Engadget: Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers. “For many users, the battle between YouTube and ad blockers has largely been invisible, or at least ignorable, until now. The new wall dramatically changes this dynamic, forcing users to adapt their behavior if they want to access YouTube videos at all. Still, the ad blocking companies suggest it’s more of a policy change than a technical breakthrough — a sign of a new willingness on YouTube’s part to risk alienating its users.”

San Diego Reader: Jim MacDonald’s cellphone captures over 2,000 local performances

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New-to-me, from San Diego Reader: Jim MacDonald’s cellphone captures over 2,000 local performances. “Just a Fan Recording Local Music is the name of Jim MacDonald’s YouTube channel; it boasts over 2000 cell phone videos of live performances by local artists, 586 subscribers, and around 191,000 views. MacDonald resides in Ocean Beach, and in 2019, he started walking over to the Farmers Market bandstage on Wednesdays to check out performers like Yvonne Brown of the Kings.”

New York Times: How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life

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New York Times: How Your Child’s Online Mistake Can Ruin Your Digital Life. “Google-owned YouTube has A.I.-powered systems that review the hundreds of hours of video that are uploaded to the service every minute. The scanning process can sometimes go awry and tar innocent individuals as child abusers. The New York Times has documented other episodes in which parents’ digital lives were upended by naked photos and videos of their children that Google’s A.I. systems flagged and that human reviewers determined to be illicit. Some parents have been investigated by the police as a result.”

Music Radar: This web app randomly samples thousands of YouTube videos to create a playable grid of loops, giving you endless sonic inspiration

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Music Radar: This web app randomly samples thousands of YouTube videos to create a playable grid of loops, giving you endless sonic inspiration. “Built by Technology Greg, Sonic Garbage pulls over 3000 randomly generated YouTube audio snippets into a colour-coded grid and sorts them by ‘audio energy’ (volume?) or length, giving you a playable set of randomized samples that is tons of fun to mess around with. Sure, the majority of them may not sound great, but play around for a few minutes and it’s remarkably easy to stumble on combinations of loops that fit together just right and create something unexpectedly musical.” It really is, I tried it. It was amazing to me how much random audio actually made half-decent samples.

Northeastern Global News: From the Ice Bucket Challenge to MrBeast — does ‘stunt philanthropy’ make the world a better place?

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Northeastern Global News: From the Ice Bucket Challenge to MrBeast — does ‘stunt philanthropy’ make the world a better place? . “MrBeast, or James Donaldson as he is known in real life, is arguably the poster child of stunt philanthropy. With more than 215 million YouTube subscribers, he is one of the platform’s largest content creators — and a self-described philanthropist… Patricia Illingworth, a professor of philosophy and business at Northeastern University and author of ‘Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All,’ considers Donaldson in her philanthropy and ethics courses, and says the YouTube star may not be the force for good that many — Donaldson included — make him out to be.”

WIRED: Palestinians Are Locked Out of Google’s Online Economy

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WIRED: Palestinians Are Locked Out of Google’s Online Economy. “The internet has given some Palestinians a global audience, but many benefits of online life that billions around the world can take for granted simply don’t work for people in Gaza and the West Bank. In addition to YouTube’s partner program, money transfer services such as PayPal and ecommerce marketplaces, including Amazon, largely bar Palestinian merchants from entry. Google tools for generating revenue from web ads or in-app purchases are technically open to Palestinians but can, in practice, be inaccessible due to challenges verifying their identity or collecting payment.”

EchoEkhi’s Blog: I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight

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EchoEkhi’s Blog: I’m Declaring War Against “What If” Videos: Project Copy-Knight. “They are very easy to make: pick a fanfic, copy all the text into a text-to-speech generator, mix the resulting audio file with some generic art from the fandom as the background, give it a snappy title like ‘What if Deku had the Power of Ten Rings’, photoshop an attention-grabbing thumbnail, dump it onto YouTube and get thousands of views…. In short, an industry has emerged from the systematic copyright theft of fanfiction, for profit.”

Kotaku: YouTuber Accuses Casetify Of Copyright Theft, Has Receipts

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Kotaku: YouTuber Accuses Casetify Of Copyright Theft, Has Receipts. “There’s a brilliant trick map makers use to prevent plagiarism, called ‘trap streets.’ They deliberately put an entirely fictional road, or even entire imaginary towns (‘paper towns’), so that if someone lifts their work without permission it’s immediately identifiable to them. Something very similar is at the center of claims that a billion dollar phone case company has ripped off YouTuber JerryRigEverything.”

Reuters: YouTuber sues Google Spain for wrongful dismissal

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Reuters: YouTuber sues Google Spain for wrongful dismissal. “A Spanish YouTuber is suing Google Spain, a unit of Alphabet Inc, for wrongful dismissal in a case that could set a precedent for content creators’ labour rights, Spanish union UGT said on Thursday. The lawsuit seeks to demonstrate an employment relationship between Jota, a creator of political satire content whose real name has not been disclosed, and Alphabet’s YouTube because he regularly provided his services and received remuneration derived from advertising revenue, UGT said.”