Monthly Archives: June 2021

A Capitol Hill rioter accused of destroying media material was arrested Monday in Austin, Texas, after being identified through YouTube videos.

Zvonimir Joseph Jurlina has been charged with destroying property in a special jurisdiction and aiding and abetting, as well as committing an act of physical violence on the Capitol grounds, according to an affidavit released by the prosecutor’s office American District of Columbia.

Prosecutors allege Jurlina was part of a mob that assaulted a media staging area shortly before 5 p.m. on January 6. Members of the press were forced to flee as large crowds passed metal barricades and began destroying cameras, tripods, blinds and other broadcasting equipment.

“Many members of the crowd shouted inflammatory rhetoric against members of the media,” the affidavit read.

A member of the press said his news agency destroyed between $ 30,000 and $ 40,000 in equipment, according to the affidavit.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released photographs of the onstage assault to the media and asked for the public’s help in identifying those involved.

FBI agents identified Jurlina from a series of 12 live streamed videos he posted to YouTube from the United States Capitol on January 6.

Jurlina allegedly kicked or stepped on equipment and helped set it on fire, according to the affidavit. Prosecutors also accuse Jurlina of having verbally encouraged the theft of media tools abandoned by the press and of having taken a microphone as a “souvenir”.

In an investigators video found on YouTube, Jurlina was reportedly recorded saying, “Yo guys, we have … this is our fuckin ‘shit” as participants in the media scene attack been seen trampling a camera.

Later in the video, prosecutors said Jurlina could be overheard saying, “This is reporter Zykotik coming to see you live. We are, haha. This is the real news media network. We’ve taken over. She’s America’s mother. First. That’s how we do it.

More than 500 people have been arrested to date in connection with the Capitol uprising, Attorney General Merrick Garland said last week. Garland said the count of arrests included 100 people who were charged with assaulting a federal law enforcement officer.

“Our efforts to lay criminal charges are not possible without the continued help of the American public,” Garland said in a statement. “To date, we have received over 200,000 digital tips.

FBI Director Christopher Wray said his agency still had hundreds of investigations underway and was considering several serious charges.

“This is far from over,” Wray told lawmakers during a hearing on Capitol Hill on June 23.

Jurlina’s lawyer is not on the affidavit. News week contacted the Justice Department for further information, but did not receive a response until publication.

England playmaker Phil Foden has revealed he’s watching YouTube clips of his best pre-game moments to get started.

The Manchester City man may only be 21, but he already has plenty of choice in the archives after playing in Manchester City’s Premier League title campaign and advancing to the final of the Champions League.

Comparisons to Paul Gascoigne have become inevitable – not least because of his bleached blonde hair – and although Foden cited the former England international as his inspiration, the only footage he watches online is that of himself. .

“Sometimes I watch my own clips on YouTube just to get into a game feeling confident,” he said on the Lions’ Den YouTube channel. “I don’t really like looking at someone else, I want to be my own person.”

There will be some impressive skills in the vault, as the Stockport-born striker is particularly good at getting past players, which he says is instinct.

“You don’t work on it, it just becomes an instinct,” he said. “When you see a man and put him between your legs, it comes to you.

“The best players in the world think fast.”

After showing a glimpse of what he was capable of in England’s opening two group matches against Croatia and Scotland, Foden was a substitute for the decisive clash against the Czech Republic.

And he admits he wasn’t a good spectator.

“I feel like I’m more nervous watching the game than playing,” he said. “When the guys were playing, I bit my nails hoping they could take the win.

“They crushed him and took the victory.”

England playmaker Phil Foden has revealed he’s watching YouTube clips of his best pre-game moments to get started.

The Manchester City man may only be 21, but he’s already spoiled for choice in the archives after playing in Manchester City’s Premier League title campaign and qualifying for the Champions League final.

Comparisons to Paul Gascoigne have become inevitable – not least because of his bleached blonde hair – and although Foden cited the former England international as his inspiration, the only footage he watches online is that of himself. .

“Sometimes I watch my own clips on YouTube just to get into a game feeling confident,” he said on the Lions’ Den YouTube channel. “I don’t really like looking at someone else, I want to be my own person.”

There will be some impressive skills in the vault, as the Stockport-born striker is particularly good at getting past players, which he says is instinct.

“You don’t work on it, it just becomes an instinct,” he said. “When you see a man and put him between your legs, it comes to you.

“The best players in the world think fast.”

After showing a glimpse of what he was capable of in England’s opening two group matches against Croatia and Scotland, Foden was a substitute for the decisive clash against the Czech Republic.

And he admits he was not a good spectator.

“I feel like I’m more nervous watching the game than playing,” he said. “When the guys were playing I bit my nails hoping they could win.

“They crushed him and took the victory.”

An upcoming security update from Google could break dozens of links to YouTube videos and Google Drive files. Starting next month, Google is changing the way it handles link sharing of older content to improve security.

Youtube

Four years ago, the video-sharing platform rolled out security enhancements that make it harder to find links to unlisted videos, which can be viewed and shared by anyone who has the link, but doesn’t. not appear in search results. YouTube is now reorganizing videos uploaded before January 1, 2017 and setting them to Private instead of Unlisted from July 23.

“If you have a video impacted by this change, we will notify you directly”, The YouTube team wrote in a blog post, alerting people that they must take one of the four steps within the next month. Active users can, of course, opt out of the change; simply fill out an online form ask to keep unlisted videos older than 2017 in their current state (without benefiting from Google’s security update). You can also make unlisted videos public or re-download clips as new unlisted content.

The last option, “do nothing”, ensures that the first unlisted videos will be set to “private” and that any links previously used to embed or share them will no longer work. Who, as pointed out by The Verge, could be problematic for content left on unused or inactive accounts.

“We understand this change can be difficult, so we’re giving you time to make adjustments to your videos before it goes into effect on July 23, 2021,” the blog said. “These videos are not new and therefore receive less traffic, which we hope will minimize disruption.… We encourage YouTube creators to review their old unlisted videos and choose the privacy setting that is right for them. “

Google drive

A similar security update affects some files in Google Drive “to make sharing links more secure”, according to an article on Google Workspace updates, which warned against new access requests for those who had not yet viewed the file.

Workspace administrators, encouraged to choose how the security update is applied before July 23, can track which users, folders, shared drives, and files are affected within their organization. Assuming the company does not choose to opt out, end users who own or manage the affected files will receive an email starting July 26 and have until September 13 to determine how to implement the change.

Personal account holders can also expect to receive notification from Google Drive regarding their affected files and will have the same 19 days to comply.

Eagle-eyed Super Smash Bros. Ultimate fans have discovered a few secret videos in a Masahiro Sakurai playlist on YouTube that may suggest a double fighter reveal at E3.

Announcements for Smash Ultimate are normally made at major Nintendo events, and the Direct scheduled for E3 is no exception.

Nintendo has made good use of its presence at E3 in the past to announce not only Smash Ultimate and its incredible cast featuring all of the previous fighters in franchise history, but also its DLC.

In 2019, Nintendo shocked the world by announcing not only Banjo & Kazooie, but Hero from Dragon Quest as well.

Double E3 Smash Revelation Leaked?

Now, on the eve of Nintendo’s E3 2021 Direct, fans have spotted potential evidence of yet another double reveal.

In an official Nintendo playlist titled “Masahiro Sakurai”, there are two unavailable videos listed as “hidden”, suggesting that both videos are for the fighters’ reveal.

“I’m assuming Smash ends with its last 2 DLC characters tomorrow at E3,” one user wrote on Twitter with a screenshot of the playlist.

I guess Smash ends with its last 2 DLC characters tomorrow at E3. 2 unavailable videos are hidden it seems … pic.twitter.com/Q6wo2SHDZ8

– LastAtari (@LastAtari) June 14, 2021

Strangely enough, the last video uploaded to the playlist is “Mr Sakurai Presents Hero”, which dates from July 2019. It also includes videos for Smash 4 on Wii U and 3DS.

It’s unclear exactly when the playlist was updated to include the two currently hidden videos, so this could all be unfortunate timing, but a double reveal seems possible given Nintendo’s history at E3. .

Sakurai was keen to reiterate specifically that there are only two DLC spots left with Fighters Pass Volume 2 and while waiting for a potential final bonus character, there is little reason to doubt him.

Fans believe Doomslayer will be revealed at E3.

Who are the last two fighters in Smash Ultimate?

If Nintendo opts for the double reveal, it’s also possible that we’ll be watching a Western character alongside a character from the East, just like they did in 2019 with Banjo and Hero.

Fan speculation favorites so far include Crash Bandicoot, Master Chief, Doomslayer, and Ryu Hayabusa.

As always, take all of these rumors and possible leaks with a grain of salt. We’ll know for sure once Nintendo’s E3 Direct kicks off on Tuesday, June 15 and at 9:00 a.m. PST.

When you think of the ephemeral of the web, YouTube probably wouldn’t come to mind. Since its launch in 2005, the site has become a go-to resource for internet users for a range of video content around the world, but this unmatched position can be part of the problem.

“Anything you can think of [that] can be as a video can be found on YouTube. And I always say YouTube is the video encyclopedia of the world, ”says Louisa Ha, professor in the School of Media and Communications at Bowling Green State University in Ohio.

Ha is also the publisher and one of the authors of the book Audience and activity of YouTube and online videos. She credits the streaming site’s success to the backing and backing it receives from Google’s search engine, as well as its versatility as a platform for short and long videos.

She spoke to Sparkhost Nora Young on the enduring global cultural significance of the video streaming site and what that means for online news permanence.

Here is part of their conversation.

I’ve heard that YouTube itself is the second biggest search engine after Google.

YouTube also had the benefit of working with Google as a business, and a big business with financial backing and everything. And it has also developed very quickly internationally, like Google. So due to the large international base, it really attracts audiences from all over the world. And he also has other linguistic abilities, at the moment he has subtitles. You can also have a transcript now and translate some of these videos. So it can be very, very international.

Some of the other video sites are probably limited to their own language, but YouTube is mostly global. There are more international videos than videos produced in the United States. So basically it’s a global site.

As an expert in mass communication, what do you think are the implications of YouTube’s dominance in space?

Well, like I wrote in my book, if YouTube goes out of the world, if it goes bankrupt, all the videos [will be] faded away. This is what happens because so much has been put on YouTube, many institutions put their videos there because it has a good interface. That’s why even my university puts all of its videos on YouTube. So if it’s gone then all that documentation will be lost because sometimes they don’t keep an archive as good as YouTube. That’s why I think it’s really important for international organizations like the United Nations or other organizations to have international cultural power to really oversee these kind of giant global sites.

Not only does YouTube have commercial influence, but it also contains a lot of cultural artifacts and documentation that can disappear overnight if they have no good way to summarize and archive them, and if there is company went bankrupt. So who would take care of it? At present, there is no liability outside the company. So we rely too much on the company.

Overall, what do you think is the role of YouTube in culture and in preserving our cultural history?

I think right now it’s very important, especially [with] today’s generation because they don’t use print. They rely on everything online and most importantly a lot of people are very video based. Whether they’re learning from video or entertaining through videos, they’re doing a lot in the medium now. Video is the primary medium for many people. Video is therefore such an important cultural artefact in our life.

So I would say that in 50 years, if someone wants to research the history of people in the 21st century, they will definitely have to find some kind of video site like YouTube or something else that they can find, like TikTok, and try to grab the thing. This is the documentation, we no longer have the stone engraving. We use this kind of electronic device and these files. That is why it is very important that these files can be recovered and archived, so that in the future, no matter what, someone can always find them.

I worry a lot about it and I don’t know if the people in the library or other specialists do things like that. But I think it’s very important that we don’t wait too long because from time to time things can happen. We do not know. Maybe there will be a disaster or something that will take place that will cause these things to disappear from the face of the earth.

Do you think YouTube should be subject to some kind of government regulation like the FCC in the US?

In my book, I recommended that there be an international organization, like the United Nations or the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which would be able to have some kind of international authority because this medium does not is not limited to the United States. It’s just that the company is based in the United States. But most of the materials are no longer American material. So it’s not an American affair, it’s a global affair.

So I would say that it is very important that international organizations step up and maybe ask for control or management of materials. For example, when banks go bankrupt, the government tries to save them. It is so important. I think YouTube would have the same status as if they really go bankrupt or disappear, the [global community] must come and help.

There is so much on YouTube that covers every country in the world, even China. Even though YouTube is banned in China, [they] also post a lot of videos on YouTube. So it affects everyone in the world. Some countries have more than others. This is why it is a global affair, not the affair of an individual country.

This Q&A has been condensed and edited for length and clarity. To hear the entire conversation with Louisa Ha, click on the “listen” link at the top of the page.