What Leafy's Ban Means for Free Speech on YouTube
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Click Management
4.9 • 852 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Leafy was permanently terminated from YouTube this week. What does this mean for free speech on the platform and what responsibility does YouTube have to police this?
Also - Apple vs Epic continues! And why has Fall Guys been so successful?
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine how it feels to have one person kind of come at you and be like, |
| 0:03.6 | oh, like you're ugly or you're, you know, fat or you're dumb or anything like that. |
| 0:08.3 | It hurts. |
| 0:09.3 | Now imagine you have that being put in a video that is then broadcast to millions of people. |
| 0:14.3 | What's up guys? |
| 0:20.3 | Welcome back to Watch Time. |
| 0:22.3 | This week on the podcast we've got a few things that we're going to talk to you about an update on the epic first apple |
| 0:28.9 | lawsuit that is going on that is happening basically right now. We're going to be talking about fall guys and why their social media has been so successful |
| 0:38.8 | over the past week and then we're going to be touching a little bit on Leafy and his band from YouTube and why that was and how YouTube is managing the community at the moment. |
| 0:48.0 | But firstly, Elliot, how is your week? What have you been up to? |
| 0:52.0 | Honestly, a bit of a weird week. |
| 0:54.0 | It's kind of at this stage, which is like right before the new season of Fortnight, |
| 0:58.0 | because that's dropping in like two days now, |
| 1:00.0 | where I'm kind of like, I probably should make like one more video before the new season |
| 1:04.6 | maybe too but like I just keep feeling like there's gonna be some big end of season |
| 1:09.2 | event that just like hasn't happened quite yet and I'm just kind of like I'm sitting around like is gonna drop is it not gonna drop is there like we've got new POIs appearing and it kind of just makes it weird to record videos because I'm like if I record something but then something huge happens it's going to be like well okay that was a waste you know like why I just wasted a bunch of time |
| 1:28.1 | recording something that I now can't use but yeah so it's I don't know it's this. I have to make videos, but I don't know what to make some worried that they'll get outdated |
| 1:36.4 | Anyway, basically just kind of in a holding pattern. Yeah nice. Yeah, I'm I'm actually trying to take nights off working this week. |
| 1:45.0 | For those of you that don't know, I'm based in Canada at the moment, but obviously the rest of the |
| 1:49.8 | click team is in Australia, so I often find myself working like crazy late nights all the time and so this |
| 1:55.8 | week I'm like giving myself some self-imposed breaks where I'm not going to be working nights |
| 2:02.0 | apart from the fact it's like literally 10 p.m. |
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