Is Your TV Channel Vulnerable to Censorship?
Censorship is one of the significant threats that video creators face, which can greatly affect their ability to connect with audiences and share their ideas. It involves the suppression of speech or public communication deemed objectionable by platforms, often forcing video creators to navigate a challenging environment.
This situation can create hesitance to address bold topics, ultimately hindering creativity and reducing the variety of perspectives available to viewers. By recognizing the implications of these vulnerabilities, video creators can take proactive steps to safeguard their voices and uphold the integrity of their content despite censorship.
Are video creators at risk of losing their audiences due to censorship?
The topic of online censorship has become increasingly important for the success of video creators.
Those in authority have a long history of employing censorship to silence objectionable opinions, regardless of their truthfulness. When combined with ever-evolving copyright regulations and platform content guidelines, this results in a difficult landscape for video creators aiming to thrive in the online space.
Starting your own independent channel takes you beyond these limitations.
Widespread censorship by media conglomerates can be seen as having an increasingly negative impact on the ability for online content creators to build, maintain, grow, and monetize their online audiences.
Copyright strikes driven by new AI technologies have also fueled concern and panic among creators of every genre, fearing that the audiences they have spent years of hard work building up are at a surprisingly high risk of being destroyed at a moment’s notice.
Major tech companies can slow or even outright stop your online growth if you are relying solely on their platforms for service. What’s even more frightening is how this can happen to anyone, for even minor offenses. In fact, many content creators have already been kicked off of platforms like Youtube, Twitter, Vimeo, Twitch, and many more.
Erasing entire audiences and sometimes even years’ worth of hard work!
This is why it’s critical to maintain as much control over your content as possible, especially in today’s social environment.
The solution? You need your own media outlet, where you maintain full control over your own platform independently as a creator.
Censorship and the future
The way this kind of censorship works is quite interesting, processing massive amounts of data through pre-defined filters and often believed to leave much room for error. Information is processed in real-time, making it possible for media companies to censor vast amounts of data at light speed. To make this worse, there are very few legal protections to prevent this from directly impacting your channel or online audience without recourse.
A.I. or artificial intelligence will be much more aggressive in the future, and most A.I. auditors are controlled by media conglomerates. These algorithms can stop anyone or any company that starts to gain traction and reach large audiences.
They can also be seen to have a two-fold purpose: to squash any future competition and ensure popularized content has the most views.
At TVStartup we don’t believe in limiting the ability of content creators to reach their audiences in any way.