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Comment on YouTube to end community captions feature and deaf creators aren’t happy

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Bad move as some channels love that their content gets translations into other languages as helps them and they can't afford to pay for that and it's fans/supporters/people learning that create that. That's all going to go.

What they should and hopefully will still do is - allow it to happen still, but give control to the content creator to authorise it and only authorised is public. That way you get the best of it all. Then you would have a way to acknowledge any abuse/spam and get on that instead of liberally tarnishing all community captioners as spammy evil people who should be stopped as that is how they are doing it. Playing the, we're doing this as bad things happen focus and utterly and completely ignoring every positive good aspect of this. A pattern many a company/government uses and still don't make it right. This approach is what I call "Think of the children 2.0", same thing in effect, just more meanutiatered and subtle approach and yet still heavy on the blinkers.

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