<story><title>YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science videos from the Internet</title><url>http://climatestate.com/2017/02/03/youtube-removes-hundreds-of-the-best-climate-science-videos-from-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awalton</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s more likely the channel was brigaded by r&amp;#x2F;The_Donald supporters or 4chan than YouTube actually doing anything. Their systems are so automated, stuff like this happens all of the time - the users wield an unseemly huge amount of power to knock content offline.&lt;p&gt;So, lessons learned: 1) Keep backups of everything you&amp;#x27;d upload to YouTube. 2) Vimeo.com account 3) Petition YouTube to revamp their content policing strategies to keep humans in the loop instead of algorithms knocking content offline because a mob with pitchforks decides they don&amp;#x27;t agree with you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wybiral</author><text>Is anyone else wondering why they&amp;#x27;re selling domains like SpaceAlpha.com [1] or their own domain ClimateState.com [2]?&lt;p&gt;And that they&amp;#x27;re using clickbait titles like &amp;quot;YouTube&amp;#x2F;Google shuts down largest climate science channel&amp;quot; to say that their channel was shut down?&lt;p&gt;Doesn&amp;#x27;t it look a bit fishy?&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;climatestate.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;domain-spacealpha-com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;climatestate.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;domain-spacealpha-com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;climatestate.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;domain-climatestate-com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;climatestate.com&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;domain-climatestate-com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: auto-correct typo</text></comment>
<story><title>YouTube removes hundreds of the best climate science videos from the Internet</title><url>http://climatestate.com/2017/02/03/youtube-removes-hundreds-of-the-best-climate-science-videos-from-the-internet/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>awalton</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s more likely the channel was brigaded by r&amp;#x2F;The_Donald supporters or 4chan than YouTube actually doing anything. Their systems are so automated, stuff like this happens all of the time - the users wield an unseemly huge amount of power to knock content offline.&lt;p&gt;So, lessons learned: 1) Keep backups of everything you&amp;#x27;d upload to YouTube. 2) Vimeo.com account 3) Petition YouTube to revamp their content policing strategies to keep humans in the loop instead of algorithms knocking content offline because a mob with pitchforks decides they don&amp;#x27;t agree with you.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>staz</author><text>Youtube-dl [1] is a great tool to backup videos from Youtube. (And just a pip install away)&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rg3.github.io&amp;#x2F;youtube-dl&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;rg3.github.io&amp;#x2F;youtube-dl&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>