Jim W6LG My YouTube Channel Hacked and Suspended, Gone, Nothing There

[bobowzki]

https://old.reddit.com/r/amateurradio/comments/v5azgu/jim_w6lg_my_youtube_channel_hacked_and_suspended/

[nickysielicki]

I’m familiar with his channel. He’s a very soft spoken guy who loves to share his knowledge with others, of which he has a lot. He has one of the more technical ham channels out there. He has the type of kindness that is missing from many curmudgeonly Elmers.

It breaks my heart to think that he might be worried about the loss of his legacy of videos while he’s dealing with his health problems.

[MikeDelta]

Horrible, especially given the circumstances he is in and how his legacy was taken away from him. I hope he manages to solve it and get his account and videos back.

[johnklos]

Google has only ever shown that they care when enough people make a stink. Like crowdfunding medical care, this is not sustainable.

We really need a Youtube alternative.

[the_biot → johnklos]

There are alternatives: at least peertube and LBRY (sp?). They're just not popular.

[aaaaaaaaata → johnklos]

> We really need a Youtube alternative

Then, we really need technology education.

[Havoc]

> asked YouTube for help and gotten nothing from them

What a surprise...

Starting to think this is intentional, not just in the obvious cost saving way, but rather to filter support requests through the social graph so to speak.

If it creates enough sympathy with kind hearted souls (and enough media noise) then it must be real

[midislack]

That's a real shame and a great reason to put all your stuff on archive.org too.

[toomuchtodo → midislack]

If Google restores the channel, it will be archived to the Internet Archive once available. Archival job is queued.

(no affiliation with IA)