Cyber CPU Tech, Britec09, others were affected by questionable YouTube takedowns!

Update - By the time I published this to YouTube, Cyber CPU Tech has successfully had his videos restored. See pinned comment for more info...

It has come to my attention that YouTube has removed some videos on the subject of bypassing Windows 11 system requirements to force-install on older systems or getting around signing in without a Microsoft Account when setting up Windows 11. It seems to primarily be affecting Cyber CPU Tech, and Britec09 on YouTube. As of this writing, none of my many videos on this topic have seen takedowns, and there are many other videos on the site (including brand new uploads) which have seemingly not been targeted. The alleged reasoning for the takedowns is YouTube claims the content violates the site's guidelines prohibiting "harmful or dangerous content". The problem here... there's nothing harmful or dangerous about either force-installing Windows 11 on systems not meeting the inflated "EliteClass" system requirements, or setting up Windows with a local account.

There are two factors which I personally believe are contributing to this issue Cyber CPU is experiencing...

1. YouTube's over-reliance on AI for handling moderation. AI is not as smart at making decisions as a human. Due to this, the chances of the system misidentifying material as violating the community guidelines is higher than ever before. YouTube's explanation to Cyber CPU claims that bypassing the EliteClass system requirements for Windows 11, or forcing a local account can "lead to serious injury or death". That's absolutely insane. You would think the simple solution for this would be to appeal the takedown and strike... but the appeals are handled by (you guessed it) the same AI which took the content down in the first place! Since AI is less intelligent than human intelligence, it will quickly assert it was right and deny the appeal. This leads to the second factor...

2. Cyberbullying. I suspect that Cyber CPU Tech may be victim of cyberbullying here. Knowing that the moderation system is highly likely to get it wrong, cyber bullies can take advantage of this, to censor or shut down someone. Cyber bullies have long misused tools for censorship, including the DMCA (to make fraudulent copyright complaints) to censor to delete sources of information. I don't care how much beef you have with someone, cyberbullying is unacceptable, period.

There is some speculation that Microsoft may be behind the takedowns. I have my doubts, as if they were, a whole lot more people would be affected by this. Besides, it would be bad PR for Microsoft if they were behind this. My channel along with many other tech channels were victims of false DMCA copyright claims by Microsoft over 10 years ago. Turns out, a company working on behalf of Microsoft was responsible, and while the takedowns were quickly retracted, it really painted a bad image on the company. Perhaps though this is the case again?

Hopefully these issues will soon be settled for Cyber CPU and any other creators dealing with this issue.

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