Videos released by the Police are no longer welcome on YouTube

[p49k]

The headline is misleading. The videos aren’t unwelcome, it’s just that the channel is demonetized. Why should anyone feel they are entitled to earn ad revenue for reuploading public domain police videos to YouTube? It’s not original content, and they’re using someone else’s infrastructure to host.

[knubie]

Title should be “Videos released by the police are no longer monetizable on YouTube.”

[rvz]

YouTube doesn't care. At the very least for some large creators, they will just demonetize them rather than a blanket suspension as commonly done with smaller creators. Perhaps they will spin it to say they are saving money due to the hostile economic environment.

Either way, YouTube has always abandoned its empty 'mission statement':

> Our mission is to give everyone a voice and show them the world.

> We believe that everyone deserves to have a voice, and that the world is a better place when we listen, share and build community through our stories.

They will never change and it will only get more worse.

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[tyleo]

I feel like this title is a stretch. It makes it seem like the police are a target of some specific political policy when it is possible that they just caught the bad review of some algorithm (which also sucks but for different reasons).

[reactspa]

So much for YouTube becoming a "public utility."

[reactspa]

Some would argue that this channel was performing a public service by putting police videos in a central place. Rather than the viewer having to traverse various police websites.

[smoldesu]

Getting paid for reuploading government content isn't public utility.