Several videos were demonitized for talking about Mental Health issues like Depression or Sexual Abuse (that they may have felt) as a kid.
Okay... To be perfectly honest, while that could be an edge case of the algorithm that targets these videos; I really do not see a problem with it.
Honestly, I'm missing where the indignation is coming from? The video is still up right? YouTube is simply saying, you cannot use these videos with our ad partners...
What's the problem? What am I missing??
In addition the satire videos are being targeted as well as videos for Video game content.
Yep, and this is where I have some experience because I've worked with companies (tangentially) that have ads that target that demographic. You have no idea how many times these companies have to deal with irate people emailing them saying
"do you know your ad is supporting this YouTube channel (x) that said (y) that I find offensive?"
Folks don't realize the ad partners at a micro-level don't have that kind of control over what video will broadcast their ad; YouTube and Google are responsible for this.
So, since people have always been told to vote with your pocketbook; and that's exactly what is happening... People (including ad partners) are saying enough is enough.
What is the problem with that?
Basically if you do some civilian reporting on issues in the Middle East,
There are tons of issues in the Middle East that would not fall under the change in rules... In fact, the majority of Middle East affairs/news wouldn't be affected.
If however, you're saying that you should be able to monetize war reporting or the Syrian refugee crisis; I agree with YT, that such content is not really where they want to push product ads.
talk about Islam in a bad light
Why would I as a company put forward an ad that does this on an international platform? What sense does it make for me as an advertiser or as Google to push something like this onto prospective customers?
or show "terrorist events" aka stuff like 9/11 you get your videos demonitized.
Riight.. and to me, that makes perfect sense...
I just don't understand
why does this seem like a bad idea to you?
My company is in the business of making products, websites, and developing technologies; we deal with startups and even very large corporations. While we don't handle any business-to-business marketing at all, we do subcontract it out to firms. Why would we as the company handling development and business growth, the marketing firm, or the IP holder want to advertise on a video that might relate to the September 11th attacks?!?
Think about that for a second..
It is Youtube' way of censoring their content and going after creators for arbitrary rules that technically can apply to anything.
This
isn't censorship...
YouTube is not blocking the videos, they are saying "we will not
pay for these videos." These videos are not the kinds of videos we want to run ads for...
How does that amount to censorship.. And how are these rules in anyway arbitrary? In fact, they address very real problems on the platform as it relates to their business interests.
Moreover; you have to understand something... When you use YouTube either as a content creator or as a viewer; you are exercising Google's right to free speech,
not yours. Google owns the platform in it's entirety. When people post videos on Google, they don't get to yell at Google for telling them what Google should and shouldn't allow; let alone what Google and it's ad partners should or shouldn't be prepared to preemptively pay for.
Now, if there was some public interest here; like actual freedom of speech issues, or electioneering issues, or some kind of defrauding of content creators revenues, that would be a topic worthy of discussion. But this? This amounts to quality controls over videos submitted for revenue sharing. To say that Google shouldn't do this is tantamount to saying Google should STFU and just pay people for anything they put up regardless of content.
That's not how this business works, and it's never how this business has worked historically.