YouTube is Compromised

[@MoreBoogersPlz]

Somebody commits a crime while wearing an LTT hoodie. Linus Media Group gets a subpoena for a list of everyone who has purchased an LTT hoodie.

[@dakoderii4221]

Depends on if that person falls into a good group or a bad group. Actions don't matter anymore. It's okay as long as you are special. Other people will be blamed for it if someone must be punished. Those other people made them commit the crime by some vague reason. They were oppressed and just fighting back against the ______ man.

[@gljames24]

​@@dakoderii4221You mean like evangelicals?

[@noname-gp6hk]

Imagine crime being prosecuted anymore

[@danielcobia7818]

Since LMG is in Canda that's a real possibility.

[@inqizzo]

@@dakoderii4221 good group or bad group? Or is it more about police being more active and alert in places with higher crime rates? Isnt police brutality just a display of power in places policemen dont feel safe?

[@judgywudgy]

The slippery slope is hardly ever a fallacy when it comes to the u.s. government's ability to abuse it's power

[@futuza]

Also it's only a fallacy if you assume that it inevitably leads to going down the slope, not if you are just saying its a possibility. What makes it more believable is literal decades of mountains of evidence that the federal government spies on people and abuses its power.

[@MindinViolet]

It’s not just a slippery slope. Law enforcement in the US and elsewhere has become increasingly authoritarian.

​@@MindinViolet The rise of the authoritarian left to stall counter culture... then they go to war after going hard nationalist in a desperate bid for power.

[@boburanus69]

The concept that slippery slopes don't exist is the fallacy. People often misuse fallacies because they don't understand arguments or fallacies. It's fallacious to argue that because something could get worse, it will. It's correct to argue that something has a track record of getting/being worse, thus could get worse again in the future. When a position is supported by evidence, it's not a fallacy. For example: Trump came out and stated his abortion position is one supported by most legal scholars. His narrow view of 'legal scholar' is limited to 'supreme court justices' for that to be true. Yes, most justices voted to repeal Roe v Wade. If I said: A vote in 2024 for Trump is a vote to end abortion protections Nationwide, ordinarily that would be a Red Herring. Because it's Trump, it's actually already happened. All that's left is passing legislation to federally support a ban, once he has the presidency again, and a republican majority. Luckily, GoP is better at chewing off it's own foot out of anxiety, than they are at effective legislation.

[@ABaumstumpf]

@@boburanus69"If I said: A vote in 2024 for Trump is a vote to end abortion protections Nationwide" No, what happened is that they prevent post-birth "abortions" (yeah, that was what some politicians tried to push through).

[@SlavTiger]

Im sick of the way we get treated as guilty until proven innocent. It is one thing to know something questionable and a whole other thing to actually do something nefarious with said knowledge.

[@VitalVampyr]

To be fair they aren't saying watching the video is a crime, they just think watching it is potentially linked to an actual crime.

[@ZeldagigafanMatthew]

@@VitalVampyr I would love to hear a judge or even a defense attorney excoriate officers who think watching a given video is grounds probable cause, the threshold required for a warrant. Someone likes a certain book by a certain Austrian, that might be enough for me to terminate any personal relationship, enough to watch them from a distance, but filing a report on them with the local PD isn't really going to go anywhere. Generally speaking, the broader the warrant application, the less power it should have, and going outside the bounds of the warrant is an illegal search.

[@jason2mate]

@@VitalVampyr No to be clear, the watching of the video wasn't linked to an actual crime, they SENT the video link to a criminal, and then got the people who watched in a certain date range, hoping to get the criminal in the list ASSUMING HE WATCHED THE LINK SENT TO HIM BY A RANDOM PERSON.

[@aukora129]

@@VitalVampyr But it's like if they got a list of all the information of everyone within an entire city because one person in the city did a crime. 1 to 30000 is crazy numbers, it would mean the information of every single person in the US and their entire internet history would be in the possession of the police. More than 1 in 30000 people in a year do crimes, so if we were to give information on who watched every video each criminal watched, that would legitimately be every single piece of data there has ever been on you and everyone else in the country.

[@redcroft308]

​@@VitalVampyrthats not how crime works. Because i watched saving private ryan doesnt mean im a nazi sympathizer

[@evdomos]

It's nice of Linus to let Luke out of the basement to do WAN. Edit: "Canonically", this is not in the basement. Nick says in the downsizing video that he still gets kicked out of his office Fridays for the WAN Show.

[@chromacat248]

it looks like they're streaming WAN from the basement

[@justindoess]

69th like. Nice

[@191.]

@@chromacat248HAHAHA, yeah. 😂

[@Anarcho-harambeism]

I'm definitely on a list, been 3d printing firearms for a while lol(btw, completely legal in the U.S.)

[@MunafARangrez]

It seems they are streaming from the basement

[@hiddendrifts]

literally "guilt by association" is wild

[@bug5654]

Bet all your friends and associates say that, don't they?

[@hiddendrifts]

@@bug5654 what

[@bug5654]

@@hiddendrifts Was making a funny guilt-by-association reference. On second reading doesn't translate well in text.

[@DoutorSocialGames]

Fantasy/fiction writers often have to google some weird stuff about murders/corpses/weapons... They're all in lists, and it's well known.

[@VioFax]

Unless all you do is watch minecraft videos and say absolutely NOTHING important. You are on a list...

[@FakeDeath_]

If all you watch is minecraft videos you are definitely stumbling across the pedo side of minecraft ​@VioFax

[@economicprisoner]

@@FakeDeath_ Was watching like an hour long rust vid once: and he starts saying Nazi shit 40 minutes in.

[@kkon5ti]

@@economicprisonernot surprised

[@hedgeearthridge6807]

I think you're seriously overestimating their resources. They don't give a shit unless you're actually getting involved in some seriously illegal stuff. "It's well known" by schizos and other people who have no evidence. Stay away from CSAM and terrorism, and you'll be fine. Not even serial killers who had been obviously planning and researching for years online, got the attention of the government. They only do after they're caught and their computers are seized.

[@Quinafoi]

This goes well beyond "wrong place and wrong time". There is a huge fundamental flaw with what they are asking for. There is zero evidence that the actual target of their investigation was ever in "that place at that time". They sent the target of an investigation a phishing link. That person may have never even clicked the link or watched the video.

[@CampervanCookout]

My feed suddenly filled with toxic content the last day, as well as lots of American political trash too, I’m in the UK, baffled why google have decided I suddenly want this content. They’re definitely hiking up the ads to make them extra irritating to push the premium subs. They’re just pushing me away from the platform.

[@brokemono]

Seems like there could be more to the story. Google doesn't randomly push such content without a reason. Perhaps there's something on your device or in your browsing history triggering it.

[@gljames24]

​@@brokemonoNo, I saw it too. It was literally night and day yesterday and the day before in my recommended.

[@noname-gp6hk]

You won't stop watching youtube and you know it.

[@ellielikesmath]

my feed didnt change. if it pushes politics i just tell it im not interested or "don't recommend channel", which you can do on individual videos if you're signed in. u do that enough, and i mean, it's less than five minutes of work of purging the feed, and youtube will clear out that trash. you don't even have to do it for all the videos.

[@olwiz]

Im getting the same and im from Brazil. I suspect the algorithm is doing some association thing; For example i watched some videos on tech and games (and some on tech privacy) and my guess crazy altright americans also watch those things- and heck i strongly suspect the craziest conspiracionists watch a lot of tech privacy content with tinfoil hats and all. It happened to me once in the past and i could trace back in my watch history the odd video i had watched recently that change the algorithm for me, and it was some random reactions video guy(so i deleted it from history it got fixed). This time i couldnt find it, but anyway i guess now its just some of the themes and channels that just by being popular get crossed with other demographics too. In another example im a man, in Brazil, i watch some clearlyy man-only content but i happen to not dig sports nor football (or soccer for the americans). But thats like an extreme outlier in my country, brazil of all places, not a football fan... it took YEARS for youtube to finally learn i never click on football. And to this day theres a funny content creator i rarely click because if i watch only a single feed video from him half my recomendations feed turn to sports overnight.

[@SylvesterAshcroft88]

Linus is spot on, they shouldn't be allowed to do this, this is as bad as ai identifying someone as a criminal, before they've even done anything wrong, in a similar way to minority report.

[@CNC295]

They hit UFD tech with a take down for talking about how ai can be abused to circumvent windows keys.

[@FrietjeOorlog]

Windows 95 keys. That MS doesn't even sell anymore.

[@Mario583a]

@@FrietjeOorlog The sum of all digits of Windows 95 keys are divisible by 7 with no remainder.

[@DrGibs347]

The default windows 95 cdkey is one digit repeated x amount of times to fill the spots need. It's no secret. But who uses windows 95 nowadays? Absolutely nobody. At this point win95 should be abandonware in public domain.

[@FelixUmbra]

@@DrGibs347 All operating systems that are held from sale and no longer supported should be public domain.

[@BoltRM]

And UFD merely reported the news.

[@thisishandlenumber2048]

Reminds me a story my old civics teacher told us. His parents were suspected communists at one point during the cold war so naturally they were being watched. He was a kid at that time and was obviously watched along with them but he never knew to what extent until he was an adult and decided to utilize the freedom of information act. He requested the file on him, assuming there would be some interesting stuff but not really that much because he was an elementary school kid for most of that time. He was wrong. They watched him constantly, they talked to his teachers and his principles about him. They had copies of every single homework assignment, test, and drawings he did at school. They had lists of kids he played with during recess and what he ate for lunch. They did this for over a decade. Keep in mind this was a child of SUSPECTED communists. They were never actually communists and it took over a decade of watching the entire family for the feds to decide they weren't a threat and closed their file. My old teacher said he never really knew why they were watched in the first place but assumes it was because his parents might have made a donation to a charity linked to the communist party of america since they were philanthropic people. That or they were a known associate of a communist party member. That's all it can take to be stalked by the government for over a decade. You drop some coins in the wrong bucket or have the wrong coworker. Now apparently hovering over the wrong thumbnail can be added to that list.

[@MrNicoJac]

As weird as that sounds... Did any of them ever experience any negative side effects of being monitored that closely?

[@thisishandlenumber2048]

@@MrNicoJac I wouldn't know the answer to that question since I never met his parents and I haven't seen him in over a decade. At the very least it likely stressed/creeped his parents out to know that they were being so heavily watched. He probably didn't know it was happening while he was a kid so he was probably living in blissful ignorance. Those are just assumptions on my part though because like I said this is a story I heard a long time ago and I never actually met his parents who would have known the most about their situation.

[@Vysair]

Managed Democracy is no longer satire

Luckily I've been on the lists the whole time >:).

[@lunaqueer]

The cold war sure sounds like it's was a convenient excuse to stomp out all unionizing power and socialist leanings in your country :/

[@AnotherOtherMan-alive]

I'm going to be that guy for a second: it never started as a joke. Frankly speaking the only reason we joke about it is to make light of a shitty situation. Kind of like if you ever searched for/purchased the anarchist cookbook puts you on a terrorist watch-list. (meanwhile the content is nothing compared to the publicly available US army field manuals).

[@spartanretro]

I’m going off second-hand information here, but most of the stuff that’s in the anarchist’s cookbook will result in you blowing yourself up

[@freedustin]

Yes this is definitely "gallows humor." We didn't start the fire, but we can joke about it.

[@futuza]

Everyone seems to have forgotten all the leaks Edward Snowden brought to light back in 2013.

[@TehGameRaven]

Isn't said video what was played on hacked KZbin channels? That was thousands of viewers that didn't even want to view the video.

[@NicosLeben]

I thought the same.

[@Boshea241]

Isn't it the same video that hit LTT?

[@apIthletIcc]

I have been trying to tell y'all, read my old comments

[@sudoCompetence]

​@@Boshea241thats probably why Linus is so authoritarian with this one.

[@benriser4018]

That slow head turn at the mention of scythe mowing and the "what the actual fuck" face was hilarious

[@baleavitt]

Watched a video about governments putting people on a list and now I'm on a list

[@jeffmofo5013]

The violat5ion of the 4th has been a serious issue since the internet started selling user data.

[@nicholasvinen]

You think that's bad, what about "civil asset forfeiture"?

[@RandoWisLuL]

@@nicholasvinen lets not get into EVERY issue. We are talking about KZbin and the internet. one issue at a time.

[@zybch]

Those 30k viewers aren't suspects. They're witnesses.

[@mattthemouse1]

The Glock switch converts a Glock into a fully automatic machine pistol by preventing the action from locking up and so it keeps firing as long as the trigger is pulled.

[@phelpsfilchat]

I see also like if it was cable tv where a live broadcast end up showing a crime. Lets say an arsonist fire. Then the police asking the tv broadcast to give the information of anyone who saw the fire. Like I know many people who forget the tv open on a random channel cause they went away for something. This is basicaly what happened with the law asking for google for private information

[@VioFax]

Time to quit computers. HAve a box in the corner for your personal job and bill paying and just stay off it otherwise.

[@dysphoricpeach]

this is NOT a good time to have discovered mental outlaw and develop an interest in OPSEC

[@futuza]

Congrats you're now on an NSA recruitment list.

[@newkfromrotterdam]

*puts on tinfoil hat* so.... you are an agent to discourage people doing research on OPSEC huh? ;p

[@UNSCPILOT]

I'd bet even just being a Linux user they've probably tried to put me on a list, even if my main activities are gaming and 3D modeling, must be a nightmare for them though because my browser scrambles all possible forms of tracking data making them have to do a whole lot of work for a boring nobody XD

[@druxpack8531]

once you understand that law enforcement simply does not care about adhering to any laws to close a case, then it all becomes clear.

[@ccfreakMetal]

KZbin being compromised? Hey, 2010 just called guys!😅

[@e.t.watchman5142]

SOME OF US KEEP KZbin ON AND IT AUTOPLAYS HOW THE HELL CAN THEY BLAME PEOPLE FOR SOMETHING EVERYONE HAS ACCESS TO WHAT A BUNCH OF B.S

[@A_Retired_MSgt]

KZbin hit those numbers by pushing a mentally abusive amount of ads on people.

[@filonin2]

What ads? Noob

[@UNSCPILOT]

Thus why I never have and never will feel guilty about ad-blockers, not to mention the shear number of malicious scam or even virus laden ads that slip threw even KZbin to potentially disastrous effect

[@skinwalker69420]

This is why every KZbin user should be using ad block on desktop (use ublock origin) and KZbin ReVanced on Android. Take KZbin back.

[@admiralkaede]

net worth has NOTHING to do with profit or revenue

[@2005HemiMagnum]

Yet we can't get scam livestreams taken down

[@Exilum]

One thing that makes it even worse is that these were regular videos. These weren't even videos that would put you on a list even in a dystopian state.

[@Notsram77]

govt: "oh crap, they know about our scythe mowing list. Abort!"

[@JustAFan444]

I've looked up some pretty messed up stuff on KZbin and the internet in general just out of sheer curiosity. I mean, who hasn't gone down a Wikipedia wormhole and ended up reading about things that have absolutely nothing to do with anything you were initially looking at or would normally have any interest in.

[@hellmalm]

This is just the normal way we cut tall grass in the Stockholm, archipelago in Sweden. I did not know that this was something to get excited about! 🤣🤣🤣

The scythe mowing is how it was always done in these parts. My grandfather was really good at it.

[@npsit1]

4:23 in this case it's more like "you happened to be interested in something that we don't think you should be seeing, so you're a criminal now whether it's illegal or not."

[@ThisTruckingLife]

The fact that the US would even ask that against their own people shows where we are right now. Who's leading everything

[@KoopstaKlicca]

Me when I'm put on a list bc I took a dump for too long and I forgot to turn autoplay off

[@JustAFan444]

I fell asleep and woke up 4 hours into a video showing a lasagna floating in space...

[@Waouben]

The problem with scythe mowing is that takes some training and it's pretty physically intensive

[@-DeScruff]

Yeah my grandfather used a scythe to mow my family's property before the house was built. It can be fast! But it is VERY tiring, and if you aren't used to it its super easy to pull your back muscles.

[@UNSCPILOT]

That and you still need to gather the grass after, that said it can clearly handle much taller fields of grass than a usual lawnmower, while I might use a weedwhacker to do the same task, a scythe in the right hands is clearly a good option, if only because the tool is much simpler and requires far less consumables to operate

[@davidgoodnow269]

Scythe mowing is for the young, and requires a lot of strength and flexibility. I know, because my dad made me use a scythe to do the alley, and a manual push scythe mower (no engine) to do the yards, at home, and scythe the virge at his business when I was a kid. After he died, that's what was around to maintain the property and it's a lot harder when you are older and out of shape! You'll drop ten pounds of flab in a summer month, though!

[@iclicklike3397]

@@UNSCPILOT weed whacker can cause damage due to vibration if in excess, while scythe is exercise and is actually beneficial.

[@dtaggartofRTD]

I ended up being one of about a dozen viewers of what seemed to be an infomercial on pigment mixing hardware. It was genuinely interesting, incredibly niche. Governments stepping on human rights like that is unsettling.

[@zion9575]

It’s hard to not believe in the slippery slope when you’re sliding down it at 200mph

[@RetroEcoChicken]

youtube : puts video on your front page you : click it fbi: LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE GOT HIM

[@MrHaydnSir]

that grass competition video, i’ve seen that before, so fascinating now imagine i ended up on a list because of a random recommended video, or even worse, because of a random short or vertical live stream whilst scrolling

[@Aras14]

I am definitely on a list, "How to make Methamphetamine" (which was recommended to me) and a tutorial on how to make yellow cake (the radioactive kind) are quite the reason.

[@metarukarakuri783]

It's been compromised for years

[@m4rt_]

mowing grass with a scythe is a bit scary, and you have to be careful, but it's a lot of fun. Though if you want your grass to be short you may need to use a lawnmower. (though if you are good at it, you could do it only using a scythe). At my family's cottage here in Norway we cut the grass with a scythe and an old manual lawnmower that you push. (it has a round thing that spins when the wheels spin, and on the round thing there are blades to cut the grass)

[@OriginalPiMan]

It's still possibly to buy a manual lawnmower in Australia too, at least, but almost no one does because it's only slightly cheaper than a basic petrol or electric one.

[@jamez6398]

Imagine being the guy who brings in the cakes and refreshments to the Holocaust planning meeting room and being out of the loop, and everybody there has to awkwardly fall totally silent whenever you come in and awkwardly shuffle their feet until you left and you find out later what the meeting was actually about. "Don't tell Friederick, I think he might be a Jew."

[@user-mn8lz7gf6d]

that absolutely happens in top secret meeting. Or aides/assistants work with the understanding that they 'forget' what they heard and saw, just like IT will ignore all the nudes on the devices they work on.

[@dodowner132]

You can make any 3D printed gun reliable as long as your 3D prints are ready to accept a real barrel, and real uppers/lowers. I do not 3D print guns, and if the police try to use this to search my house, all they're going to find is a lawsuit.

[@charlesvalkyrie4096]

America online used to have the Anarchist Cookbook where you could download it but the moment you did so your user name and account was reported to the FBI. I speak from inside knowledge on this

[@znth-gameworks]

This "you shouldn't be on a list for a search" remided me of a thought I've had earlier today: My son was born earlier this year and recently I've been studying on how to protect him from predators through education, proper handling of his activities and supervision, etc... So the thought of how and why predators operate got me thinking "Is there a place in the world where PDF files are not illegal?" but i've refrained from googling it because I am already on enough lists being a gun nut, anarchist with 3D printing as a hobby (I DO NOT PRINT GUNS)

[@jmjedi923]

PDFs arent illegal? At least the PDF I'm thinking of

[@CubesAndPortals]

Adobe stock price in shambles after the global criminalization of portable document files

[@znth-gameworks]

@@CubesAndPortalsread it phonetically and considering context :v

[@ThePC007]

I stopped using ChatGPT because it had a feature where it tried to detect “problematic” chats. I was researching a cybersecurity-related topic and got flagged multiple times because some AI thought I wanted to hack someone. This is just stupid.

[@thesidneychan]

@@zigzagtoes app stain island?

[@Rottypops]

I can't find the North Korean drone footage they're talking about and I wanna see

[@Chastity_Belt]

Fun fact about north Korea: whole shoreline is forbidden for civilians to enter, and there's a full length fence installed on a shores. You can even recognize it on google maps. That's something wild.

[@3.b.c]

This is just simply wrong. North Korea sucks, but don't spread lies.

[@davidgoodnow269]

Yeah, that's why I hate this, "Build a Wall," bullshit. I grew up with the Iron Curtain and the Berlin Wall. I know those are used to keep people in, a lot better than they keep people out! If the U.S. if A. doesn't want people coming in illegally, just disincentivize it.

[@dewcodered88]

Slippery slope argument only has problems if you strawman it. In reality with actual events it an extremely strong concept/argument.

[@sjschauer4235]

The crazy search histories of writers....

[@guard13007]

7:20 Having used two 3D printed guns personally, they jam a lot, but they do not break after a few rounds. It takes a couple reloads or more at this point.

[@aaronklein1490]

Seeing linus go from confused about the scythe mowing to totally into it in real time like that was top tier.

[@electrified0]

The closest real life analog I can think of is a DUI checkpoint, which have similar challenges in regards to the 4th amendment. Being on the wrong road at the wrong time allows the police to search your vehicle in a context they otherwise would not. However, even then, it's not like they can wiretap your home and search your house. This is where the KZbin situation goes way further, in requesting far too much data. If they got the name/email/ip of everyone who saw the video and at what time, that is still intrusive but is narrowly scoped to a very specific purpose and would be much more in line with something like a DUI checkpoint.

[@shlushe1050]

10:51 as someone who has Amish neighbors and an Ex-Amish fiancée, they actually use reel style mowers, their fully mechanical manual push mowers. They aren't really hard to use and leave a really clean cut! They only use scythes for cutting really high grass/brush, or cutting on really steep hills

[@exvils]

9:35 we do that in Slovakia xD Probably in Poland too, if you live in village and have some farm animals, chances are you have scythe at home to mow what's called "Alfalfa" in english. You get that way lot of green tall grass for pigs or chickens that way, and still keeps water inside (wont dry that quick). 9:55 There are also scythe competitions here, mostly on farm day events

[@dosesandmimoses]

Thank you gentleman and all staff for all your hard work!

[@Striker9]

I legit want a scythe. They are amazing for tall grass compared to a weed wacker, or even a push mower.

[@TWeaK819]

Is this why KZbin urls now include a tracking string when you share them? That was only introduced over the last few months.

[@futuza]

This kind of thing is useful in helping people remember/realize how important privacy is and that everything you do on the internet is recorded (unless you specifically take steps to hide or obfuscate it). Company's use this data (that most people don't think about being dangerous) primarily to make profit by selling it to advertisers, but because that data exists and doesn't magically go away, governments or the public could also get access to this data because of either a data leak, court order, or the company getting bought out, etc. Also, everyone still seems to forget everything that Edward Snowden leaked years ago, nothing has changed (at least in the US), and the NSA is most certainly still up to it's usual tricks of spying on the public.

[@RetroEcoChicken]

goverment mixing with entertainment never ends well.

[@ElectricityTaster]

You talked about bumpstocks and now I'm on a list. Thanks guys.

[@metallboy25]

Im not surprised. Some time ago I watched a livestream of a youtube content creator. During the livestream he drank some alcohol and expressed his displeasure with paypal locking his account and effectively stealing his money(money he could never recover). The next day a team of feds was at his door interrogating him about the "incident"

[@TheFrantic5]

I see all those Mental Outlaw videos are going to get me jailed again.

[@Aeoss_1]

I have watched videos of high level technical jobs simply because the algorithm suggest it and I clicked it wondering why. Then after 39 minutes I basically had a fair enough knowledge to splice high voltage power lines. Another video on how to program software for GPS geofencing way points for home made drone lawn mowers. Which doubles as a method for someone to use flying drones to monitor large property. Had no idea that just clicking something like that could lead to a self incrimination scenario based off my ip traffic. Yay

[@moze_-]

"PokeGO somewhere..." reminded me of "PokemonGO to the polls." lmao.

[@BrownFoxWarrior]

I'm sure at this point there are lists so extensive that they defeat the purpose of being a list.

[@roflBeck]

If everyone's on the list, no one is.

[@duanefouche378]

So you mean because I watched that one furry vid on KZbin I'm now going to be locked up and put in a cell with other furries... oh nooooo ~

[@CrystalFier]

Oh no, that would be the woooorrrsssttt....

[@VioFax]

@@CrystalFier As an ex furry I can confirm. Being trapped with more would be a nightmare for me.

[@LindonSlaght]

you seem like the type of person they say lock up your daughters about. not being mean idk. You just strike me that way.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

worth it

[@blancobull]

I had to rewind it a couple times to be sure. But at 3:58 Linus says they're "Groping people into buckets.". I have to say, I definitely feel the reach around. Which distracts me from the Pounding I'm taking from behind.

[@ShadowWolf2508plays]

I've seen that scythe mowing competition video lol, i actually still get it recommended to me every once in a while

[@cstan327]

I never have understood the algorithm because it sometimes just makes no sense to see millions of views on videos that are like so obscure? Like how even?

[@CampervanCookout]

Some of the channels I follow have literally disappeared from the algorithm and the views plummeted because. I still watch via subs. I guess it’s not the optimum cost vs income so it gets punished?

[@cstan327]

Yeah its crazy seeing some channels just not appear anymore and not sure if its from competition or just the algo just messing it up?@@CampervanCookout

[@nebula8072]

I refuse to believe its anything other than viewbotting/astroturfing.

[@asdprogram]

best background so far 😂

[@MasterHigure]

The fast scythe mowing reminds me of Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett. Death goes on a working holiday to live on a farm, and he's, let's say, pretty good at mowing the fields with a scythe. "ONE STRAW AT A TIME" he says, while keeping pace with a darn combine.

[@RetroBerner]

KZbin recommendations: Here's a crazy video about blowing shit up! Me: Cool, let's see... KZbin: Yes, FBI? Yeah, this guy right here...

[@yaughl]

We've all been down weird rabbit holes on KZbin out of pure curiosity.

[@NeverlandSystemZor]

And now I am searching Scythe mowing... wild.

[@milkevgaming]

since i watched this video does that put me on a watchlist for a country im not even a citizen of?

[@BitBam]

i watch a lot of youtube... imagine i stumbled onto this vid with my handle lookin all sussy like, despite it actually being inspired by a band name's acronym.

[@BitBam]

BTBAM \m/

[@BradleySmith1985]

7:40 flipper 0 ban is also a joke.

[@psionx1]

the thing scythes is they don't work very well on steep hills and can't get into tight corners so it makes more sense to compare them to a push mower then a weed eater.

[@enzovulkoor]

It annoys me that I have family who have issues with websites not allowing you to say what ever you want which doesn't brake 1st amendment but they have no issue with blanket search and seizure of data by law enforcement. USA education and law enforcement is a joke.

[@blancobull]

There was this concept in US Jurisprudence called McCarthyism. And the Council on Un-American Activities. The actual thought police.

[@V3DT]

I leave youtube on autoplay often when going to sleep, I'll wake up then & often it will be on a video from Linus or some other youtuber I watch but sometimes I'll wake up & it will be on completely random things I never would of searched for or watched. Also I don't get why sometimes youtube will stop & "ask are you still watching?" yet other times it seemingly keeps playing for ever & a whole day later it's still going on autoplay without stopping.

[@TRayTV]

The video could also be embedded in one or more webpages.

[@ashember7064]

Im a knife nerd, gun nerd, fabrication nerd. Im constantly worried that im being put on a list for mechanical interest.

[@montecorbit8280]

Why not talk about KZbin Shadow banning various channels?? In the last couple weeks the KZbin channel Shadaversity talked about that....

[@friendlysoviet1]

You have to sharpen the scythe after a dozen strokes or so for it work effectively.

[@radstronaut]

“Groping people into buckets” is a helluva Friday night

[@fakjbf3129]

I think a more narrow version of this sting where they send someone an unlisted video and then subpoena KZbin for who viewed it could be reasonable, since the only people watching an unlisted video are going to be people you gave the link to. But using a public video with huge numbers of innocent people is way too broad a net and a massive overreach.

[@alien9279]

That would be ideal. At the same time even if it has 30k it would be fairly easy to narrow that down to your suspect since you'll know a lot about them already

[@fakjbf3129]

@@alien9279 Yes, but now they have information on 29,999 innocent people who are watching a “problematic” video that they wouldn’t have had access to otherwise. They are pushing people to these videos not because they want to catch that individual person, they are doing it because they want that data about all the other people and this is their way of getting their foot in the door.

[@h4tch3tt74]

Government undercover feeding a suspect an unlisted video and then arresting them for watching is potential entrapment for one thing. Then abhorrent for making knowledge illegal.

[@fakjbf3129]

@@h4tch3tt74 They aren’t being arrested for watching the video, they are being arrested for whatever they were being investigated for. The video is just a way for them to get info they can use to figure out/prove who the person is. Think of it like those sting operations where they just emailed people with active warrants that they won Super Bowl tickets and then arrested people when they showed up.

[@PURCELLYOUTUBE]

this is exactly why you never let your random teammate pick up a scavenger contract in warzone. they will end up in the wrong place at the wrong time and you will pay for it

[@blindmown]

I was thinking about this and I'd bet the reason specific videos are targeted is that they're shared in dark web forums like Dread and the feds want to see if they can cross reference anyone's details from the forums to see if they've been sloppy with opsec.

[@sudoCompetence]

Keep your policies in Canada please.

[@joebullock5450]

Darn it Linus, I had to bounce at 11:00 marker to watch scythe mowing! Of course I came. Next looking up the North Korea Video.

[@yaggii]

I didn't get it.... So if a person has seen the video the US government demanded all details from this person... Would they get only IS citizens data? Or would they be obliged to supply all users regardless of their state details

[@samuraininjaguy3900]

I've wondered if it was an unlisted video they posted to a forum somewhere to try to figure out the identity of forum members (existing suspects). Like a site on the dark web. I hope we get to find out, but I'm not holding my breath.

[@TIOLIOfficial]

Americans really just forgot about Snowden...

[@MrNicoJac]

But..... If you're on 10 lists, and you still haven't been arrested or eaves dropped or been searched or SWATted or whatever... Does it actually matter??

[@Bekkenes]

I downloaded the Anarchist cookbook in early to mid 90s in txt format. Im sure if it was monitored I got on some list, if not Im sure i would go there now.

[@KillahMate]

'Why would they do this?' What a stupid thing to ask. They would do this because they CAN. And they can because no one ( _certainly_ not Google) will stop them.

[@usualatoms4868]

Them being so excited about scythe mowing is just deeply funny to me. Also a good reminder of how detached we are for tried and true tech of the past.

[@FlFisher966]

Here we are, in the information age, surprised that a information giant does something they shouldn't . . . far from the 1st shady things done.

[@benpaholke3922]

Prosecutors could limit the number of people caught in the dragnet by limiting the timeframe. "People who watched the video between [date/time] and [date/time]" But is the WAN show available as a podcast? Or some on-demand service OTHER than youtube?