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The Russian Government Has Started Censoring the Internet

It’s no secret that the likes of China and Iran censor the internet to within an inch of its life, but now there’s a new Big Brother blocking content: Russia. https://gizmodo.com/how-china-censors-its-twitter-at-light-speed-5989161 The New York Times reports that the Russian government has recently been making heavy use of a new law to “block Internet content that…

Okay, April Fool’s 2013 Is Happening

YouTube and GoogleMaps are getting the ball rolling today. According to the release above, YouTube is not actually a video viewing and sharing site, but an 8-year contest to find the best video anyone can make. And GoogleMaps now has a treasure map layer. Nice, we see what you did there. [CNET]

Ugh. If you’re the type to record video on your iPad, then you might as well use YouTube’s Capture app. Ugh.

YouTube Co-Founder to Launch Rival Video Site

YouTube already has its fair share of rivals on all sides, from Vimeo to Hulu. Now, though, one of YouTube’s co-founders, Chris Hurley, is planning to create a rival of his own. Hurley left YouTube, by then a part of Google, in 2010. Seems he’s planning to try and pull at least part of the…

Beloved franchise Sesame Street hit 1 billion channel views on YouTube, meaning it’s still less popular than Psy.

Would You Pay For Ad-Free YouTube?

Reports from both Fortune and The Guardian indicate that Google is planning to start a subscription music service like Spotify soon. But the craziest little nugget buried in the reports: YouTube might be getting an ad-free option. Imagine no more Vevo ads. Hello, holy grail. Fortune seems convinced that YouTube—and not the Google Music storage…

YouTube Puts the Final Meta Nail in the Harlem Shake’s Coffin

If you somehow haven’t had quite enough of the Harlem Shake yet, you might be inclined to surf on over to YouTube and type in “Do The Harlem Shake.” And if you were to do that, YouTube’ll interpret it as a direct order, and unleash a meta-jig of its own. Can this be the final,…

YouTube iOS App Now Beams Video to Your TV

YouTube’s iOS app has been updated with the “send to TV” feature that lets you beam videos wirelessly to your television from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Here’s how it works: Make sure your TV and your iOS device are on the same Wi-Fi network, then tap the TV icon at the top of…

New YouTube App Code Shows Pay-To-View Is on the Way

Remember those rumors that YouTube was working on rolling out some paid subscription channels? According to Android Police, code in the recently updated YouTube app shows that Pay-To-View is in the works. It’s just a matter of when. https://gizmodo.com/report-youtube-may-start-making-you-pay-for-content-5979851 The code pretty much speaks for itself: < string name="paid_channel_subscribe_message">You can only subscribe to this paid…

Behind the Internet: The Rise and Fall of Keyboard Cat

Bad news first. Guys—Keyboard Cat is dead. The same cat you’re still splicing into videos and GIF-ing as fast as your little fingers can fly is, in all likelihood, rotting 6 feet below some nondescript, Midwestern backyard. It all happened one night in 1987; our beloved Keyboard Cat (formerly known as Fatso) raised his paw…

The Caleb Moore Crash: Watching Someone Die on YouTube for Fun and Profit

On January 24th, 25-year-old snowmobiler Caleb Moore crashed during the X Games freestyle finals in Aspen. A week later, he died of complications from his injuries. And if you want, today, you can watch the fatal crash in its entirety right on YouTube. It’s been uploaded dozens of times by perverse opportunists, viewed by millions…

Hundreds of Full-Length Movies Are Reappearing on YouTube

The Wall Street Journal points out an interesting trend: loads of illegally uploaded, full-length movies are finding their way on to YouTube, and studios are doing nothing about it. And you know what? It’s right. A quick Google throws up full versions of The Three Faces of Eve, Misery, Battle Royale, The Illusionist… we could…

Further proof that reality has become a William Gibson novel

While musing on Twitter about an app that could generate a “wholly fictitious but believable Facebook persona,” William Gibson received confirmation (or at least, an anecdote) that reality is at least as weird as working for Bigend in his most recent trilogy. Here’s what artist Greg Borenstein told him: I love the idea that Hollywood…

Report: YouTube May Start Making You Pay For Content

AdAge is reporting than in an effort to lure more content producers (along with the subsequent viewers and advertisers that follow) away from traditional television, YouTube is supposedly getting ready to launch paid subscription on specific channels. The subscriptions won’t be too pricey—at least for right now. Based on applications YouTube has reportedly asked a…

YouTube Capture can now handle 1080p uploads with improved audio—karaoke night just got a lot more menacing.

Netflix and YouTube Create a Way to Use Your Gadgets to Control Your TV

Netflix and YouTube have designed a new system for turning that second screen you’re poking at in front of the TV into a remote control for your TV, set-top-box, etc. The protocol is called DIAL. GigaOm reports that DIAL (“Discover and Launch”) has been in the works for sometime and that it’s been quietly debuted…

Gangnam Style has racked up enough views on YouTube to generate Google $8 million of revenue. Impressive. [Quartz]

Pakistan will finally be lifting its YouTube ban—as soon as it finishes work on a blasphemous content filter, that is.

YouTube Took 2 Billion Views Away from Sony, Universal, and Others

While Gangnam style was out racking up a billion views, channels owned by Sony and Universal have moved twice as far in the other direction. YouTube has stripped them of these views alleging a violation of the YouTube terms of service which prohibit the artificial inflating of view-counts. According to SocialBlade statistics dug up by…

Force a Little Christmas Cheer on YouTube Trolls with This Festive Censorship Browser App

YouTube comments can be an unmoderated wilderness full of ill-will and lame obscenities the likes of which, well, the likes of which you’ve seen in YouTube comments. Maybe you’re used to it, maybe you don’t dare drift that far down the page for fear of losing yourself in the inanity. YuleTube can help change that…