YouTube suspends monetisation of Russell Brand's channel
YouTube suspends monetisation of Russell Brand's channel
The comedian and actor is accused of historical rape and sexual assaults, which he denies.
Or in other words "Megacorp reminds you that it can and will decide to pocket cut your income based on the court of public opinion".
This is not a discussion about the allegations against him, this is about the fact that Google have decided to pocket the income they would otherwise be giving him (not taking down the videos, oh no, they're probably bringing in even more ad revenue now!) without any convictions or similar. Not that Google is an employer (I'm sure they consider payments they make to video uploaders to be some kind of generous untaxable gift), but should an employer have the power to take away a source of income based on allegations, no matter how heinous?
Edit: seems they're actually not putting ads on his videos at all now, which was a surprise to me
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They aren't making more ad revenue off of his channel, because demonetized channels do not display ads via Google. It doesn't mean shit if he's innocent. The court of public opinion is the only court that matters to marketing departments, and he's hot enough right now that no corporation is going to want to be associated with him.
If they're not displaying ads at all now then I guess that's slightly better than I initially assumed, thanks for the clarification
Maybe you should edit your post as not to misinform more people given that you stated something as a fact that you basically just fabricated.
Edit: this comment was more rude than was necessary
OK, I've edited it, no need to make it sound malicious
You're right I should have worded that better, so apologies for being rude. I just think they demonotised him because it's actually pretty clear he is guilty (even if it is just to protect themselves) and your post was kind of adding to the narrative that it's just a witch hunt when demonotised videos don't even have the ads anyway.
But I understand you were just making a point about private companies having too much power over the livelihoods of creators etc which I agree with. I'm sure you didn't have ill intent so like I say I'm sorry for jumping to conclusions.
Thanks, I'm so used to super-angry replies on any slightly contentious internet discussion that I probably got the wrong sentiment from your message! I definitely don't want to be misleading anyone and I'm happy to have discovered that I was wrong about that particular bit.
I don't think think you even got the wrong sentiment I was definitely being rude lol. I think l was just in a bad mood and interpreted your post uncharitably but when I read your comments on the post later I saw you didn't have any ill intentions and felt bad for jumping to conclusions. Glad this exchange ended on good terms any way.
I'm glad too, I don't think it was ever this civil on Reddit!