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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: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 08 2018, @05:42AM
One thing I sure noticed ( after 50 years experience ) is that in the real world, people who "get things done" are far more valuable than the people who "do things", hence the skill of hiring/firing people is far more valuable than the people.
Or as that joke went around in college when I graduated in the 60's... the class of Engineers yelled out "We Got Jobs! We Got Jobs", while the School of Business shouted back "Working for Us!, Working for Us!".
In my own experience, knowledge was a negative asset, as it tended to make one insubordinate. I took the "honors student" route. Did great in academia. I seemed to have a real knack for doing things that weren't in the book. However, those same paradigms sure got me into disrepute with management, that generally seemed rooted in having me do a certain thing at a certain time, whether or not it was the right thing to do or even needed to be done. And the root cause as I could see is that we, as a division, were so overfunded it wasn't funny. There was no incentive to actually do anything. Just don't rock the boat. There will always be someone else in a position to do what we could have done. Someone outside our business model and did not report to us.
I note my neighbor's kid is doing far better in his Cannabis growing operation than I ever did doing Engineering... All I learned was a skill that is useful to a very few people, and even most of them just want the paper for CYA purposes, they still want someone to blame when things go wrong... so they need obedient ones which are guided by leadership rather than knowledge.