Know that it's owned by The Great God Google. "Google is Your Friend." That is, if you like piracy, harassing people, getting access to porn, ignoring problems of being underage, etc.
YOUTUBE is now under fire for being Pedophile Paradise.
It's also an illegal jukebox and a treasure trove of stolen material uploaded without permission and openly: "I don't own copyright. I just wanted to share it! No infringement intended!"
Most every big Fascistic Internet company gives the finger to morality. Some might, when they get around to it, remove an offensive auction (Ebay actually has a rule against selling things that endorse the KKK. Wow. But not against abusing women.)
Most big Fascistic Internet companies operate on the basis of the antiquated DMCA laws, which state, in essence: "We're just a venue. We're not responsible for what anyone posts on our site." The RIAA is upset about this. You can tell. Once in a while they Tweet "the DMCA laws must change."
On YOUTUBE, if somebody uploads a video on you, it's not considered a violation of "intellectual property." This is a LAW, but YOUTUBE doesn't recognize it. (Gee, even EBAY does).
YOUTUBE seems to ONLY recognize COPYRIGHT. If you're a copyright owner and somebody uploads your movie or your music, you get it taken down. (YouTube doesn't want to mess with Disney or Warner Bros.) Yes, they'll leave the item up, and just put a SAD FACE in its place, and tell the world who was ruining the fun, but they REMOVE THE ITEM.
What if you find that somebody is hounding you all over an airport because you're a celebrity? YOUTUBE is ok with it. Somebody with a camcorder parks outside your house and constantly takes video of you to hoist to YOUTUBE? Fine. Somebody simply decides you look good lying on the beach and though you're not famous, you get five minutes of being inspected by a camera and now everyone is watching you on YOUTUBE?
YOUTUBE's answer is to contact the anonymous jerk and say "Pretty please, take this down." To which the anonymous jerk replies, "I'm making MONEY, and I've gotten a whole buncha six-packs of Budweiser because thousands have watched my video of YOU. And YOU get nothing except maybe crank phone calls or lewd comments left on my page. Har har har."
If you DON'T want to contact the jerk, YOUTUBE's shrug is that you can file a "privacy" complaint to some anonymous, bored Milennial turd who will shrug and think, "Doesn't seem bad to ME. Who has privacy anymore? Live with it!"
That is, if you jump through all the HOOPS before you can even reach the form. You are given constant prompts, hoops and roadblocks to read and click before you are ALLOWED to even complain:
Once you get to the form, you are expected to give them the URL, give them the time on the video where you appear, and explain in LESS space than a TWEET, why this is an invasion of privacy.
What happens then? A big FUCK YOU YAWN:
In a real store, you go to the manager. If the manager locks the door, well, the manager has to come out sometime. YOUTUBE is just a bunch of anonymous drones and it's hard to find an email or a phone number to speak to anyone. Like Chaplin in "Modern Times," you are just a helpless cog to be run through the machinery. Privacy and morality be damned.
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