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I would love to see an European YouTube alternative with less morals being enforced through demonistation.

TV is literally way less self censoring at this point

And don't get confused. Most videos would be allowed on YouTube content creators just prefer to monetize them.

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> Started in 2017 by a programmer known as Chocobozzz, development of PeerTube is now supported by the French non-profit Framasoft. The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

Copyright laws are usually more strict in Europe. Yes it's a broad generalization and Europe has a lot of different jurisdictions, but the biggest European countries all have worse Copyright laws. France has HADOPI, Germany has its own mess, and the EU itself is extremely pro-copyright.

I don't think there's any law that restricts that type of speech in the US. YouTube is strict about those things because of advertisers, not because of any local law.

To my understanding COPPA is basically forcing all public media to be "child friendly"

There would be more enforcement of this if it was the EU / UK.

Generally anything that looks or smells like hacking or copyright infringement isn't a good idea to put on your YouTube channel. I upload Linux videos and I will not mention youtube-dl (or equivalents), anything torrent related even torrenting legal things like Linux install media.

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