Why Steve Wozniak Is Suing YouTube
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2020
- Jul.23 -- Apple Inc. co-founder Steve Wozniak says TH-cam has for months allowed scammers to use his name and likeness as part of a phony bitcoin giveaway. He speaks with Bloomberg's Emily Chang.
When the TH-cam algorithm recommends a video exposing Themselves
Gmail once sent an official Google email to my spam folder before.
Clearly we have not mastered robots yet...
Even their own algorithms and shit hate them
Lmao
With all TH-cam Sh*ts that is going on
I guess we should respect that
Woz literally explaining what every TH-camr knows: TH-cam support is non-existent
TH-cam is not run by humans. It is a huge AI that was left on its own and it is doing the best it can so all videos get viewed as much as possible...
typedef fair point, albeit possibly sarcastic, it's true. But with all the money they make it's very obviously deliberate for them not to hire humans to work on these problems.
It's the same with a couple of other big companies. It's just that they get so staggering amount of reports in an hour so Steve's reports were just "teardrops in a sea". I would contact authorities who then contact TH-cam directly, but I am not sure how this works in different countries and places. But sure, there are no people seeing your report when you make it...
well, every minute, over 400 hours of content are uploaded. you can't hire millions of people to look at all this stuff. even if they delete it, criminals will upload it again. It's the same with facebook and twitter. So many content, different languages, different legislations. When similar stuff happens in the real world, the justice system would do the job.
All TH-cam cares about is pushing Right Wing ads for money and screwing over viewers and channels.
If Steve can’t talk to a human at TH-cam , imagine small creators then
Wait he's a TH-camr??!
Well, he could if he wanted. I bet he has the phone number of Susan Wojcicki. But as he said he don’t want to use his name to solve this issue. There is one thing tho he could try. Reach the Police, they probably have more power
@@Mirsab no...he just meant that he is big in tech.
Nicola Serra he said he contacted the police...
@@SuperSerNiko97 He did contact the police - did you not watch the video?
The fact that he didn't abuse his power shows just how genuine the guy is.
@@ElisPalace yes, because a normal person wouldn't be able to do that
@@ElisPalace his point is to go through the process normal people have to, because that should work (but doesn't)
He's going to court to fix it for everyone. A common man can't go around suing companies like TH-cam.
@@TheAnantaSesa But if he wins, he can change it for everyone
Dominik Leitner; that's where his privilege is useful. To make change for everyone.
They can find 2 seconds of a song played as a copyright infringement, but can't stop the scammer videos?
and than they fuck up youtubers livelihoods because they said "a bad word" or showed a swastika in a historical video or something. demonetizing them while saying "this kind of content is not suitable for our advertisers"
I hate using adblock. I truly do but everytime I turn it off I get weird and seemingly illegal youtube ads. Just show a pepsi ad or smth and leave ffs.
You tube used to have some porno running on children videos. Reported the videos and emailed TH-cam multiple times took them over 6 months to resolve. That’s a damn shame
And scammers sellers such as Wish.
OOF
Right!
Woz: I don't like to use my privilege to get around the standard process.
Reporter: Why didn't you just contact the CEO of TH-cam?
@David Milton Seriously it looked like she was genuinely confused, but thats to be expected from an imbecile whos most likely been privileged their whole life...
That's not fair on the reporter, actually. He said he couldn't contact a human at YT, she asked whether he reached out to their CEO. Steve then replied saying he didn't want to use his privilege to do that. It was a fair question. If he had an issue with amazon you'd think he could ask Jeff to sort that shit out.
@@giteausuperstar No, earlier in the video he had already said he didn't want to use his status, he wanted to go through normal channels, then she seemed to ignore that and asked him why he didn't contact the CEO - she may be hot, but she seems dumb as a rock.
@@giteausuperstar Except he stated his position before she asked and then she asked. Almost like she wasn't listening. Woz goal was to do it normal channels.
@Reiner Braun No he states it 2 or 3 questions before she had asked!
I hope he wins. He’s a good guy. TH-cam and Google don’t give a damn.
Hassan abi your comment is so silly.
He could always buy Google and TH-cam with apple's money . After all , he was the one who founded the damn company (along with jobs).... Everybody thinks that only jobs created apple.Wozniak also deserve some credit.
@Hassan abi nobody asked
@@overip yes
@mrtrex01 true
Woz: "I dont wanna pull any strings or use my privallege as an advantage I want to go through the system"
Bloomberg reporter: "have you tried talking to the CEO of TH-cam personally?"
Thanks Bloomberg
She is the machine
Every single question she asked except the first was answered in one or more of his previous answers.
"TH-cam should have a checkbox for fraud or something to that effect to make sure a human looks at it."
"So what do you think TH-cam can do to fix this?"
I'm surprised they got her back to interview Woz, after the last one she did
she may be hot, but she seems dumb as a rock.
so dense
I respect Woz so much for this. He refused to use his privilege to get special attention - he cares about the perspective of the average internet user who can't get a direct line to the CEOs of these tech companies. These companies have been profiting from the economies of scale enabled by software but haven't taken responsibility for delivering customer service at scale.
Same
However, Emily Chang thinks that each of us could reach out to CEO of TH-cam! SNOB!.... Thank you, Steve W, you are truly a humble person.
💯
Agreed, he was already someone I truly admire, and he is a great guy who understands the bigger picture. These tech platforms are taking too much, and not caring about their impact. Thanks Steve!
I agree
This why Wozniak is the fking GOAT. He is always supporting the small people
he give some of the early people apple stock becouse job did not want to share.
Not small people, but, - the PEOPLE.
Individuals vs. machines.
Wether the machines are hardware, artificial or hierarchical doesn't matter.
If the machines are allowed to silence human opinion we have a real problem.
Except when it comes to Apple. It's a shame that Jobs got to him.
@R V maybe god of everything tech?
@R V Acronym: Greatest Of All Time or GOAT
Every company always says they take everything "very seriously" no matter what you're talking about. By now, if you still trust those two words "very seriously", you're "very seriously" dumb.
Exactly. Words are so cheap these days.
@@estebanquito356 Especially those that are clearly put together by "public relations" experts, a.k.a. "spinsters", a.k.a. "professional liars".
Apparently Apple take supply chain ethics "very seriously" too (unlike the environment). They wouldn't be so cold as to allow children slave labour to help produce their products for dirt cheap and then sell it at a premium and reap all the profits.
@@WillBlacksilver That's not an Apple problem that a social problem. If Apple close that factory other factory will take those same employees. And if no factory employ those children they won't have their money to buy the rice for the day. It's not an Apple problem, it's a human problem. Why do you think those children go work in a factory?Because they have nothing else to eat. People are still slave working like they did in the early industrial revolution or even before that when we had slavery. "Had" slavery, like it's something from the past. It is still happening to this day. Don't be so naive to think that the world is a nice place and big companies are the bad guys, life sucks for most humans. They have to work from sunrise to sunset to get meal of the day and keep going. Big companies feed them all, by exploting them, but they feed hundreds of thousands of people. If they leave those countries, those people will starve to death. And first world country people wouldn't be able to afford their Iphones because they would be so expensible so they couldn't tweet about how much they are saving the planet by not using plastic bags.
The world is a lot more fucked up that you may think, stop blaming Apple for it. Stop blaming other people. Go and help your neighbor.
@@estebanquito356 Apple and every corporation absolutely *can* be blamed. You seem to labor under the idea that there's only one way to do things. There isn't. Cooperatives, for example, are a well-known enterprise model that does work. Don't excuse predatory companies just because you lack imagination or knowledge. Apple has what, a trillion dollar in the bank ? And they can't do anything about their factories ? Are you kidding me ? They could have their products made by well-paid people in any country. Sure, the price might triple, but that would not be a problem because their customers are quasi-cultists and we all know it. Used to be, no one thought people would pay a thousand bucks for a smartphone and yet Apple got people to. Don't ever paint a big corporation as a victim.
What's next ? Union Carbide should be forgiven for Bhopal ?
TH-cam is plagued with these fraudulent "giveaways" and they DON'T seem to care. I've reported every one that I see, but they still keep coming. Pretty sad...
I’ve been reporting them also they keep coming up space x ones I keep getting at the moment
Some of them are unreportable ads as well, it frustrates me. I'm sure the moment that we get the features we ask for someone will abuse it too. It's kind of irritating how the solution is so hidden
same with facebook, plenty of phishing scams and fake merchandise being advertised through their paid ads.
Such an accurate comment, sad TH-cam hasn’t addressed this issue. Gave this comment a like, hopefully they fix this 👍
No one asked you to use youtube
Woz is known for his impeccable integrity and it is sad to see how TH-cam makes it difficult for him to protect his persona and reputation.
Det är synd att ödmjuka människor är dem som straffas av brottsligheten
Wozniak donated like $50,000 to ANTIFA.
@@KT-rq9id at least he DONATED instead of ROBBING someone 🤣
He also scammed people with jd
Wozniak started out as a hacker and fraudulently stole from AT&T AND sold devices enabling other people to steal from AT&T. Apple was founded using money defrauded from others.
he is right, Adobe, Google, Facebook, Amazon make it IMPOSSIBLE to talk to a responsible human manager or employee... this needs to STOP now.
no. NO. not amazon. Amazon has amazing customer service. You can talk to a human in minutes. The rest this is true.
Yeah, this is a huge double-edged sword. As soon as you put something in place to let someone get to a person at the *first* level/contact others will learn that and abuse it. TH-cam's current systems are rife with and easy to abuse due to this and the amount of manpower it would take to have a category that went straight to a human isn't realisitic (which is why it doesn't exist). There does need to be a way to escalate quickly or train the AI to better understand as they simply can't employ that type of workforce.
Not Amazon. Their customer service is EXCELLENT and that's why I keep buying stuff from them.
Anyone but Amazon....cmon man
You only get to (and HAVE TO / are forced to) talk to a human being at Adobe when you want to cancel your Creative Cloud subscription mid-term. And then you have to pay a huge fee to be allowed to cancel. Adobe is THE WORST company I have ever dealt with.
"you send $1 I send $2" "any human would say it's a crime" except those gullible enough to believe it
Lol, when he said that, he was unintentionally throwing shade at the people who were duped.
When framed like that its easy to see. But this scam is expertly crafted to be very misleading and abuses the confidence you have in TH-cam and eases your skepticism.
You have a featured, "live" conference with thousands of viewers(30k+), on a channel with 200k+ subs, and a millionaire speaker who probably WOULD give his money away.
They are "donating" millions to bitcoin, therefore it doesn't need to make sense financially for them. In the conference, they are promoting bitcoin like everyone should have it. So the giveaway doesn't even register as not being a part of the "event". It can make sense like, "oh they just want people to have bitcoin, you send bitcoin just to show you have some or bought some, and as incentive you will be rewarded like they believe bitcoin will be rewarding in the future".
What is more worrying is that it is a relatively new scam, not a lot of people know they can be watching a "live" conference from 3 years ago, or that views/subs/likes can be inflated by bots.
@@frozenfenix0 how is it expertly crafted when it's just: Give me money and I double it?!
@@frozenfenix0 no. Nobody giving money away is going to ask you to send them money first. Why would they need you to send them 50% of what you are going to get back? It makes no sense. If you believe it you are an idiot.
In eve online so many people got scammed this way that money doubling became a meme
The Woz needs to take this to US Congress. Especially when Google CEO is called.
I miss the days when folks like woz ran the tech world
He never ran the tech world. Steve Wozniak had no interest in running things. He's a hacker and engineer in the truest senses of the words.
@@Nabeelco But that's precisely his point and what "ran/run" mean in that context.
There was a time when those cowboys were seen as the gods of tech.
These days it's some businessman, capitalist, or face of a company the average power user has more technical know how than that fills that slot.
he never ran the tech world
nabeelr he never ran the business side, but he had a powerful influence on the product. He and Jobs were both product people. Jobs was also a visionary yeah.
But since they both left, Apple for example, has been run by the business people, in the business side AND the product side.
Which is why the innovation stopped. That and maybe Jobs was a genius.
But if you look at our modern word, the products we use, all came from those 2 steves.
The terminal, the personal computer, the idea of a mouse and a screed with “windows” and drops down menus, color screens, touch smartphones.
Since Jobs died, it all died. Everything has stayed the same. Why? Because it’s business men running the show, and for business it’s a lot safer and easier to just to the same thing better and improved and sell products to a cult like audience.
The biggest invention since then has been what, phones that fold? Apple has done nothing since they left.
Your comment is proof that parallel world's exists.
"You can't reach humans when you need them" Sounds like mentioned the biggest underlying problem there.
Carlos Siguenza exactly
it is impossible since it just too big and web 2.0 mean you had to do both side... otherwise people just keep stop video and people just gave up mading video... let face it if they had issue they just not paiding ad reveune... other case you can just call support since they do had them...
And the reporter still ask what you want TH-cam doing now?
Seriously what else put a human there, at lease for "crime" category report.
@@fadrium1464 Yeah she wasn't *LISTENING*
Almost like reaching a computer
Do a fusion between this story and the fictional story where A.I. launched the attack against humans in the Terminator movie.
I'm glad Steve is using his voice to raise public and corporate awareness of this issue, which has been plaguing people on the Internet for years. TH-cam and other companies MUST take responsibility for crimes like these and should be FORCED to implement human verification of reported crimes on their sites.
Once their lawsuit protection goes away, you'll be able to reach a human instantly. You'll find out just how lazy and profligate these companies really have been.
The best part of this is he could have easily used the weight of his name to get these taken down. But he decided to use TH-cam's built in methods of flagging and reporting videos. To prove a point, TH-cam doesn't care about you the user, and he isn't wrong.
It may have gotten youtube to take the video down but they wouldn't have changed anything about the system. They have known about these scams for years. They are nothing new. There has been people doing them with illegal things like credit card skimmers etc. because the victims can't go to the cops.
I kept flagging these scammers on TH-cam but they kept coming back. TH-cam is riddled with stupidity.
Same, I also flagged these whenever I saw one
@@wdai03 thank you guys for helping flag ❤ even tho it doesnt seem to do anything ever. Thanks for trying ❤
Same
me too
same; the reports don't do anything.
"I don't go around and use my privilege because of my name, we did it as a normal person online" - Steve's humbleness speaks to his character. If only more people it tech were like him
what you find in the wild are pretty young people bragging with "I worked with Google, FB, msft, etc."
But he was not attacked as a normal person would be either. His likeness was used because he is a public celebrity. No one is using my picture in a scam. Because I really am nobody.
@@1pcfred Fake reviews could use your picture and name, it's very common.
@@xWood4000 I always leave fake reviews.
@@1pcfred :) sounds a bit immoral
Good. TH-cam algorithm is way too friendly to scammers.
Scammers, plagiarists, glorified prost- it - utes, etc. They've destroyed the honest content.
I reported a few of those stupid scam livestreams, really frustrating coming back over 2 hours later seeing the stream still up with a recording of someone like elon musk yapping away with tens of thousands of people watching and these scammer's bitcoin wallet codes continuing to steal more and more gullible peoples bitcoin without youtube doing a thing about it
360 noscopr bhop away from the scammers for maximum flex.
bhop speedrun moment
I honestly keep forgetting that you are a person. I always just think of you as the better asmongold.
@@linuxnoodle8682 junki etalon
Always amazed to find TH-camrs I like just comment on the most random videos - damn interesting one though. Hope something changes, but doubt it will. Cheers
I reported the same thing to TH-cam several times. Except they were using Elon Musk.
Erik Owren yeh I seen Amazon one with Geoff bezos lol
Bro...why do you look like Patrick Star
I saw one for bill gates a while back. I didn’t think much of it but it really did look quite official
And Chamath
I saw one with Jeff bezos too
watching youtube video about youtube being sued lol kinda meta 😂
it is kind of the beauty of youtube or at least what youtube should be
TH-camception
Or is it the anti meta.
wow just realized😂
Great point - They'll probably take it down (eventually) ;-)
Woz could have made billions but instead he did what he did for the people.
Dra O what just cause you’re set doesn’t mean you can’t help people? You don’t make any sense
TH-cam: We vet scam ads and/or videos.
Also TH-cam: it's free real estate.
Emily doesn't seems to understand what living without privilege means and what Steve is actually trying to prove.
Taking Steve's side is fine. Why pick on Emily? She asked a valid question. I would have asked the same thing. It's possible TH-cam was taking down the videos and the criminals were quickly putting them back up. TH-cam probably dropped the ball during this COVID time. Americans need to lay off reporters a bit. She's doing her job the best she can.
He’s proving relying on computers for only is a mistake because their are hiccups
@Lost and Dearly Departed Asking that question made it possible for Wozniak to really hammer the greater point home.
@@KitagumaIgen The disagreement isn't about whether TH-cam could take down the hoax video. What matters is how long the hoax video would stay down. The criminals will re-upload the video in no time at all. TH-cam would need to be monitoring to ensure it stays down. How much should they spend on the monitoring and/or how much should they pay him for dropping the ball? Then, there's the question of why they should be financially punished for the actions of a bad actor who will most likely never be caught or even pursued by law enforcement? Is Wozniak seeking punitive damages? Does he have a number in mind or is his goal to promote some other social media site? A reporter asks questions and her question seems reasonable to me.
@@Eeveewashere Once they know what to look for, it would be trivial to program a filter for a scam like this, especially if it's involving one specific person.
Plot twist: youtube has no humans working for them.
This is ridiculous, there are plenty of human beings working here. I, for one, am a human being myself.
TH-cam Algorithm lmao
@@dislike__button Yea stfu YTWs lol more like your bots or your brains have been wirehacked not to think like a human
How anti-Semitic of you! Are you saying the ADL censors aren't human?!
The desks in their HQ are replaced with servers
Met Steve at an event in Berkeley several years back. Incredibly down to earth and friendly guy. Good for him.
This should surprise no one who has ever tried to contact them.
The fraudsters and scammers should be put to jail.
The facilitators... ie TH-cam. are also guilty by associative neglect. As a landlord would be if they rented a premise that was then used as a brothel and didnt react following complaints from neighbours.
Trump, that’s the one.
*Thick Indian Accent* Yeah I'm Steve Jobs, Special Investigator with IRS, We have warrant for your arrest give me 50 apple gift card! 😂😂
@@Mr3344555 tank you berry much, come again!
@@everythingvideos24 Not his fault that people like you lack any sign of frontal lobe development.
Very good point! Not being able to contact a customer service person is the most annoying thing! All businesses should have a person available to provide customer. service.
Most of the time customer service people aren't even American or even IN America!!
I agree
Are you paying for youtube? you can demand better customer service if you are paying for something, how much would it cost to pay that staff? a lot of youtubes (for example commentators on china) complaint that anti-freedom of speech mobs get their videos shut down. It is a difficult problem, if you make it too easy to take down videos people will abuse it, if you make it too hard, people with abuse it. It is hard to do it if you are not charging and you have to work with algorithms only to keep the service free
*ROCKAUTO*
The most modest comment I have heard "we are just normal people".
He is a wonderful human being. Steve Jobs was so so lucky to have this wonderful person as his friend.
Steve Jobs was an asshole to him like he was to everyone
It’s like what he is telling her goes through one ear and comes out the other...
Benny Aderaw maybe she isn’t real just a AI reporter pretending to be a webcast! Lol 😂 the irony.
youtube through one ear and comes out the other
oh well.. just sue.. and we will see rich people.. they can take their time...
@@jamesluckhurst4798 reporters have been like bots since before the days of technology
@sue musk Love this comment 😭, made my week to see not everyone is so brainwashed by the media
Good for him! Especially since he’s not using his privilege to resolve this. Instead he’s proving how difficult it is if you’re a normal person.
Even though I am not an Apple fanboy, I have always had huge respect for Woz
If the TH-cam algorithm can pick up the word "racism" TH-cam can certainly identify this...
I refuted some stupid statement about a 'm u s l 1 m invasion' to one racist and found my comment instantly removed.... so yes the phrase 'bitcoin giveaway' should get flagged! :-)
TH-cam put me under heavy censorship that instantly gets rid of "controversial" comments, yet it takes days for them to respond to the bullshit Bitcoin videos
It’s surreal to see this man, who was a key person in galvanizing the computer centered society we live in now, complain about how we need a more human touch.
He checked out of the corporate life fairly quickly. He's much like the early computer nerds that never cashed in. He built the Apple I on open source IP and even open hardware. He pushed against the tech industry on that principle to start. He's always been the human centric one
There’s a difference between an IBM (industrial business machine) and an Apple or MS PC (personal computer).
@@jonathannagel7427 uP
He's doing the right thing, TH-cam should have dealt with this when he reported the issue through their normal lines. YT be quick when demonetizing though
I remember meeting Woz in person, and he seemed like an incredibly kind person. Props to him for drawing attention to this issue; we need more people like him!
"Identity theft is not a joke, Susan."
Steve ... true American Hero ... You have my everlasting respect. Effectively, 911 calls for cybercrimes, what a difference that would make.
hero to the world i'd say. his genius created the entire pc industry years ahead of it would have been created had he not been there, which means that today so many people (office workers) even in not so well developed countries can work from home without losing pay or job in this pandemic because the technology is now so advanced
Susan Wojcicki wakes up every morning and schemes to make youtube worse
I’m glad he’s bring this to light. Companies over rely on technology to handle customer issues. Companies need to ensure that there are humans can still be reached to deal with issues.
They do not over rely. They never had any intention of handling customer issues in the first place. They're in it purely for the money. Having staff costs money too.
@DarthLesbian420 dropping off my cable box when I moved really was an eye opening experience. They had more bulletproof glass than a bank does. I could just imagine people going in there and throwing the set top boxes at it. I imagine the video feed from there is pretty entertaining stuff. It really is a lost reality TV show opportunity.
TH-cam and Google needs to take a stand against scams being advertised on their platform.
Just about every second ad I see from Google Ad Words is a scam.
THATS RIGHT. We need to get humans back onto product support when you need them. AMEN
anyone who fell for this scam clearly never played runescape.
Getting scammed on RuneScape was the first and last time I got scammed
damn i miss so much my job of armor trimming in that game
Thank you Woz, I was calling them since years. TH-cam never listened. Suing it makes sense.
These scams are everywhere and youtube still hasn’t done a thing about them
Every human would understand this is a crime, say that to the ones who sent the bitclin hahaha
Thank you S.W for doing this. These scams needs to be dealt with and youtube ain't doing it!
Out of all of the silicon valley people who founded or co-founded a huge company he is one of the most humblest and kindest person. He does not use his influence to his advantage. I wish others and MODERN rich people would be humble like him. They got too blind with money. This is why he is "The Woz".
Every human would look at this and say it's a scam, except for people who are stupid enough to fall for it
Imagine being dumb enough to fall for it....
I just recently experienced TH-cam’s bad customer service. My other channel was hacked and their forms that I’ve filled out are useless. And I talked to them on twitter and they just told me how to fill out the form that doesn’t work.
I saw one of these featuring an Elon Musk video, I flagged it and nothing happened...
If youtube thinks money is at stake, they're Johnny On The Spot.
I have a unique perspective of this situation: I have over 100K subs so I have access to TH-cam's exclusive creator support team (humans). I can chat with them live, or send an e-mail if I have any problems and the response time is relatively fast. I can imagine how it could be difficult for a normal TH-cam user to access human support from TH-cam though.
How do you have that many subs and views off of a dead meme?
@@damian9303 I have no idea 😂
I’m addicted to those cats! You’re godsend
Scammers were able to fake how many people were watching the stream.
Ok I was wondering because I see like 10k people watching those streams and wonder how they can get that many people. I try to report them but like Woz says there isn't a good way to report it
@@MichaelSnyder1776 they use computer bots and proxy severs.
Bots are cool for general things but some times you do need a live person
to respond to your questions.
Is this the full interview? It seems cut off.
I see so many scams on TH-cam that are coming up as you tube sponsored advertisements that lead to a TH-cam channel with less than 300 subscribers and are random channels that have no videos
Yeah, that is messed up is the fact this was a featured video on the front page for TH-cam Users.
Not just videos I've seen actual sponsored promoted paid advertisements on TH-cam promoting the same scam using John McAfee
So he should. The ads and scams surrounding bitcoin are insane. It’s the Wild West.
Yep, especially on TH-cam and Twitter
What is the box on a lanyard hanging off him in the video photo?
Is this why YT is so spammy at the moment? they need extra money to pay legal fees on top of overpaying their ceo's?
TH-cam isn't a profitable company as it is. Not to mention they're only reason Susan wojcicki is the CEO of TH-cam is because she let Google start up in her garage. Tbh if they actually tried to make TH-cam more efficient they could make it at least break even.
These bitcoin scams happen all the time on TH-cam... a lot recently tied falsely to elon musk on youtube’s livestream recommendations.
Back in March after Bill Gates stepped down from Microsoft. The Microsoft TH-cam account ran a BTC scam in a Livestream video.
@@moneybagz8292 thats not official Microsoft youtube channel
Such a humble guy - He could use the clout he has to resolve this in a second - But he prefers not to -
Yea only a arrogant asshole would use his clout to stop a crime and stop the mentality disabled community from advancing in society
Yea that is exactly the point of the lawsuit that an average joe couldnt get a scam against him taken down through the report feature
TheLegendSpeaker ahhhh ok I get it now. There’s no way to profit from stopping a crime, you let it happen and then sue the people who also didn’t stop it... well played Woz well played
@@TheLegendSpeaker why would a scammer use an average person to promote their activity? That makes no sense. You need to use someone the mark recognizes and imagines backs the scam up.
2:41 I thought TH-cam had automatically bumped up the play speed to 1.25
Mr Wozniak lectures here in Sydney, I had a chance to meet him and he seemed to be going somewhere; I apologised and he said he'll make time to talk to me next time. He spotted me around the Campus, maybe 2 weeks later? He came up, apologised for last time and then gave me undivided attention for around 30 mins. I was learning about Investing, and he was so honest about himself; he especially said, "Look, don't focus on hype. It's okay to let the hype die down. That's when you focus. It can help to not jump the boat too quickly, just take your time, do your analysis, and you'll know what you have. Trust that, the data won't lie to you". Cheers.
I appreciate that Woz doesn't want to use his celebrity status to resolve this (with TH-cam) in ways other people can't - but at the same time I feel like he kind of has a responsibility to do so.
I mean, the reason his name is attached to these scams in the first place is specifically *because* he has that celebrity status, because that status has some degree of value and power. Someone without that celebrity status would have a harder time getting TH-cam's attention about an issue like this - but it would also be less likely to be an issue in the first place because their name wouldn't have the same kind of value attached to make it worth using as a banner for a scam.
And now he is using the power of his name and reputation - but to call attention to the problems in TH-cam's process rather than directly to deal with the scam. And I guess I'm a bit on the fence about that one. On the one hand I appreciate it because I would like to see those processes be better. On the other hand he chose not to use that same power to stop the scam itself.
I dunno. I hope he gets it all sorted though.
You make a good point Mr. Wozniak's "Integrity" about" not using means other people don't have" does not really derive from anything. He used means other people don't have to invent the amazing technologies he created. He used means others don't have to build companies and yes, he's using it now to draw attention to this issue. Meanwhile, how many people could have been saved from the scam if he had just called up ANYONE at TH-cam/Google/Alphabet and said "I'm Steve Wozniak, I built the bulwark of your industry, and I have a problem?"
Ultimately, no one is guilty for crimes but the criminals themselves, but there is more than one way to look at this story.
The sad thing is that it’s still going on but instead with Ethereum and XRP
I respect this guy for standing for common people.
Most tech giants are in tech for just money. What they need to do is to set up call centers, where people can actively reach them. This will not only create jobs but make the process of eradicating scam and illegal content much easier.
Not everything needs to be done by computers. It's just their way of keeping more money. What they should actually be doing is creating jobs! Give back to the community.
And create better platforms. It would also resolve the TH-cam algorithms taking down videos.
Wozniak is suing TH-cam and I learned this on TH-cam...
They used a lot of people, like Jack Dorsey and Vitalik Buterin and others too to promote this scam giveaway.
Massive respect to Steve for doing this. Looking forward to a huge win for him 👍🏻
How did he do that with his leg at 03:17 ?
2:19 It's funny because she acts like she is reading back a personally written statement made just for her, but it's just the same generic automated response every one else gets, basically proving Steve's point.
What kind of idiot sends bitcoin hoping to get more back.
The same kind of idiots that believe in a god, bigfoot and a flat Earth.
Charlie D Surf hahaha exactly
Same idiot letting people loot their cities.
This is just a scam someone wins and someone lose . In the beginning it was on websites and now it’s get over on TH-cam and Twitter .It's even easier than creating a website . The Russians have a proverb: Without a sucker and life is bad 😅
Could be someone desperate, broke, at their wits end.
Doesn't matter who did it.
What the hell is that respiratory device around his neck?.
iPhone 13
This is one of the biggest problems and sources of stress in the country. companies left and right make it impossible to actually speak to someone and they do it on purpose. WE NEED AND WANT ACCOUNTABILITY.
It's like those computerized phone menus without an option to reach an operator. Just a loop to nowhere.
1:59: Why wouldn’t Ed McMahon say it’s a crime? LOL
Poor old Ed...LMAO
Shame on that interview for even suggesting he should have gone straight to the CEO. Yes he could have because he's famous. WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF US?!?
If she didnt ask the question then we wouldnt have heard wozniaks answer... which is what the interview was really about... Steve wozniak did take this interview to rant about how people are using his name to scam people, he used it to bring greater awareness to the fact that the average person that experiences something like this on youtube does not have the ability to contact a live human being and the systems set in place by youtube are doing nothing to remedy problems experienced by everyday users. Interviewer question was warranted and answered.
This man is absolutely right. There's no way to get escalated support from a human on any of these platforms. I knew someone whose account was hacked on Twitter, password and email changed, they went on to impersonate them, for two years they have tried to ask Twitter to give them access to their account back and they won't because "your email doesn't match the one attached to the account." Incredible. Absolutely fucking incredible.
There's fraudulent ads in Russian sector as well, claiming some refunds from government which is completely bs
She doesn't get it..
She doesn't want to ....you know how it is .....when it's her then she will want everyone "to care" and "understand" ....or maybe she HAS a direct link to "the humans"at YT???..🤔
Emily Chang probably is a person whom she thinks that everyone has a privilige to reach out CEO of TH-cam! She should be commending Steve Wozniak for using the same channel that any ordinary people would use. She forgets that this is a serious issue that can happen to anyone! Her questions are very condescending towards a person who had contributed so much to the world. Emily Chang's one sided approach tells skills as journalist. Soon, she would like to secure an interview with the CEO and go easy with the CEO...Please be more professional, Emily Chang! Yes, I know...I am writing on the same platform I am critising!
Yea your so right, only a rich privileged asshole would do what ever he can to stop a crime and save innocent adults who still live with their parents from financial ruin
Most of media people nowadays are more or less similar, smug, entitled, holier than thou.
Get away from such persons, keep your mind hygiene
If they ever make a movie on Woz, Michael McKean (Chuck from Better Call Saul) can play the older version!
Facebook has the same kind of scam advertisments, I've reported a bunch and have noticed that they say they will review and keep me posted, but I have never recieved anything and it's over a year ago I sent them the first scam report. The same ads just keeps popping up, sometimes they alternate the picture of the same celebrity or even have a different celebrity or company.
3:16 What the hell was that?? :I
Offcourse his dog
The person sitting next to him kicked their foot up.
TH-cam: lets see who's at work today?
A.I: I am Human.
I think the youtube algorithm, twitter, etc, all the AI is just the stamp collecting machine, but it wants clicks and not stamps. I think sometime around 2017 it determined it could create real world events for people to report on for more clicks. Now its manipulating entire populations to behave in absurd fashions so there are more clicks.
@@JB-ym4up sounds about right
He has a point. I reported these to youtube and facebook and they only blocked me from viewing but never actually removed the offending content.
Big companies need to be able to listen to the little guys
we reported these videos and youtube went there and did partnerships with them. Cant beat them ? join them
This seems to be a typical silicon valley attitude, don't employ enough people, just use computer algorithms to deal with everything. Tesla is the same, impossible to speak with a human about a problem with their cars, all done though a phone app that is mostly ignored.
It should be a crime to sell anything with anonymity. A decade ago I wanted to cancel my subscription with DISH Network. To my horror there was no way to actively do that. No phone number. No address. Not even on their web site. Fortunately my credit card expired the following month or I would still be paying them. Its criminal conduct.
There have been hundreds of thousands of accounts in different social media platforms advertising cryptocurrency scams since April. Most of them are from Africa and these groups need to be put in prison. Just like what Steve meant here the reporting of these scam accounts is close to impossible. I had reported dozens of fake accounts in Facebook, all of which were African made, and the support team said “nothing about them is illegal”... These social media companies need to be sued on how very careless and broken their tech support are. A lot of people are “investing” on these scams and their money will never be returned.