SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Submitted via IRC for Runaway1956
YouTube has removed "hundreds" of videos advertising an essay-writing service, EduBirdie, following a BBC investigation that concluded over 250 channels were promoting the Ukraine-based company.
According to the BBC, the investigation ultimately discovered more than 1,400 videos with over 700 million views promoting EduBirdie, with the topics covering "range of interests including: pranks, video games, fashion and dating." After the BBC revealed the results of the investigation, YouTube advised the channels in question that promoting cheating services was a violation of its policies against "academic aids," which specifically prohibit both test-taking services and paper-writing companies. It further told them that videos featuring EduBirdie plugs would be removed if the creators didn't do so themselves.
Numerous YouTubers complained that they had lost numerous videos as a result of the purge, with several saying dozens had disappeared. One channel claimed that 138 of their videos had been removed. According to the BBC, some said they were in the process of editing out the endorsements when the videos went down
Source: https://gizmodo.com/youtubers-are-mad-again-after-youtube-deletes-videos-wi-1825803083
(Score: 5, Insightful) by FatPhil on Tuesday May 08 2018, @01:49AM (6 children)
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people; the smallest discuss themselves
(Score: 5, Informative) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:43AM (4 children)
I skimmed through the comments, and noted that no one addresses the issue as "cheating". I had problems epathizing with the "victims". They've gone into business, aiding and abetting academic cheating. No wonder so many college grads are such idiots. All they have to do is pay the money, and take home the grades. Then, they go into the business world, to learn their ethics of "dog eat dog".
So, yeah, I agree that nothing was lost.
(Score: 3, Disagree) by c0lo on Tuesday May 08 2018, @06:55AM (1 child)
You call it cheating, the MBAs calls it work-for-hire (even your beloved president used ghostwriters).
Guess who has better paid jobs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Touché) by Wootery on Tuesday May 08 2018, @08:41AM
#notAllMBAs
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @09:24AM (1 child)
A major reason that so many college grads are idiots is because the vast majority of colleges are little better than the typical high school in the sense that the standards are abysmally low. The 'education' consists mostly of rote memorization, and since people don't actually care about real education and just want the degree so they can bypass HR drones, this is allowed to continue. The 'everyone should go to college' mentality just made this worse.
There doesn't seem to be any major push to improve these de facto degree mills, just to send even more people to them. Ah, but don't forget the Good Old Days when the American school system was good (i.e. never).
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday May 08 2018, @02:34PM
Are you sure about that? None of my grandparents graduated high school. My father-in-law completed 8th grade. It was quite common back then for kids to go to school until 8th grade, then go to work, get married, and do adult things.
Funny thing, many (not all, but many) of those 8th grade graduates were sharp as sharp could be. Father-in-law was something of a mathematician, although he didn't do stuff like any of us were taught. He also loved to talk philosophy and the various philosophers. My paternal grandfather knew more geography than any ten high school and/or college grads to day. Both of those men seemed to have pretty well rounded educations, and each kinda specialized in their own area of interest. The ladies of that generation weren't prone to showing off like the guys were. I can only say that my grandmothers and mother-in-law were smart enough. And, it didn't seem that any of these people from grandparent's generation were unique. (It's only fair to point out that my father-in-law was a contemporary of my grandparent's generation - he was still making babies in his fifties!)
Education apparently dropped off in my parent's day - neither of them ever seemed especially smart at anything. Or, maybe they were poor students, and failed to apply themselves.
My generation - the tail end of the Baby Boomers, generally had decent education available, but I can vouch that many of my peer did the absolute minimum to get through school. That is, they showed up, and kept a seat warm for a few hours each day. Eventually, they got their diplomas, unless they dropped out first. Yet, some of us got excellent educations, despite being surrounded by braindead dopers.
I think it safe to say that any person can graduate as an ignoramus, despite good school systems. And, any person can be thoroughly educated, despite a piss poor system.
(Score: 4, Interesting) by takyon on Tuesday May 08 2018, @05:28AM
No real surprise to see that prank channels were involved. Scummy/stupid behavior is the norm in that community.
https://www.tubefilter.com/2016/04/13/good-bad-fake-the-rise-of-youtube-prank-videos/ [tubefilter.com]
https://www.polygon.com/2018/2/1/16959274/youtube-prank-videos-logan-paul-suicide-forest [polygon.com]
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/25/homeless-star-of-disputed-viral-video-dies-of-alcoholism [theguardian.com]
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/24/happy-birthday-youtube-terrifying-cesspit-clickbait-13 [theguardian.com]
https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/kissing-prank-videos-test/ [dailydot.com]
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-38552507 [bbc.com]
[SIG] 10/28/2017: Soylent Upgrade v14 [soylentnews.org]