I think there is a general tendency to label a bit too many things as “shitposting”, “political ramblings” or “off-topic”
I think it’s important you distinguish between political statements and factual observations I recently had the following paragraph marked as off-topic
Most Big Tech services are inherently hostile towards privacy I’ve had a good 10-20 various google accounts blocked or banned because I don’t provide any personal details and connect over vpn or Tor. They likely assume it’s bot activity and its easier for them to just ban anyone they deem suspicious since they can’t milk any of your personal information from you anyway and thus have no incentive to keep you around.
Big Tech censoring comments is not anything new and completely unrelated to hacking. Even swear words will make your comments not show up on certain channels and I’m guessing it’s the same for any number of reasons why you might get caught in some filter. Especially if you are telling people to go watch your channel they will get caught by anti-spam filters
Syntax errors like in the JSON file is not exactly uncommon. A refresh would obviously never fix that since the issue is the contents of the file itself
I don’t think that making the observation that most services are hostile towards users who prefer privacy is particularly controversial. Try using Tor to sign up for a website and it should be pretty obvious by the swarm of capchas, even for sites with .onion services like twitter I’ve had numerous accounts banned or restricted almost immediately because I don’t want to provide them with a phone number.
Likewise I don’t see why it would be off-topic to say that YouTube has anti-spam filters to deal with bots which has a bias towards privacy users since they make use of some of the same things bots do (doesn’t connect from their private IP, uses throwaway emails, blocks scripts)
Again. I really do not see how any of this is remotely controversial or political in response to someone sharing a video saying they believe they have been hacked and give their comments being shadowbanned on youtube as an example.
I also disagree that making the observation that majority of Big Techs business model relies on advertising and selling user data and therefore don’t have a financial incentive to ensure that there are no people who just dont share private information mixed in with the millions of bots they ban
Syntax errors like in the JSON file is not exactly uncommon. A refresh would obviously never fix that since the issue is the contents of the file itself
This one I just have no idea why would ever be marked as off-topic? I’m guessing it’s a mistake?
As a new user it’s pretty discouraging to spend half an hour looking through a video and offering alternate explanations to why something might have occurred only to have large parts of that explanation marked as “off-topic”