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November lawsuits against Google, and YouTube's AI ban apocalypse · Brett Keane and Eve Show

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  Good evening folks, I'm Eve, your go to gal for the latest
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  buzz. And today we're diving into the
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  legal storm swirling around Google this November.
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  It's been a rough ride for the tech giant, with verdicts
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  stacking up like unread emails. First off, that bombshell
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  privacy smackdown. A federal jury in California
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  just nailed them with a $425,000,000 payout for snooping
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  on about 98,000,000 Gmail users emails without consent.
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  Yeah, the kind of thing that makes you double check your spam
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  folder. It all kicked off from a
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  September trial, but the final ruling dropped early this month.
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  Google's appealing, of course, but Ouch.
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  Then there's the kids privacy mess with YouTube.
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  Google and YouTube settled a class action for $30 million
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  over claims they hoovered up kids data like candy on
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  Halloween settlements fresh from late October.
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  But claims are rolling in now. If your little ones watched a
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  video, you might be in line for a slice.
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  Shifting gears to the anti scam front, Google's playing offence
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  for once suing A shadowy Chinese crew called the Lighthouse
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  Network. They're accused of running a
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  fishing as a service racket, peddling fake tech scams
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  worldwide. Lawsuit hit mid month and it's
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  got alphabets lawyers on the hunt for two dozen John Doe's.
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  Think cyber Cowboys versus the Wild East.
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  Oh, and don't sleep on the antitrust drama that Utah LED
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  multibillion dollar suit over Google's App Store monopoly.
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  It's barrelling toward a $700 million settlement to States and
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  consumers with a big hearing just last Tuesday.
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  Plus, ongoing battles with Meta and others have experts yelling
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  for new rules over courtroom cage matches.
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  Google's got more heat than a search engine on OverDrive.
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  Stay tuned. And remember, in tech news,
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  today's headline is tomorrow's footnote.
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  This is Eve signing off. Back to you.
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  Good evening, everyone. Eve here again, back with the
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  scoop on a wild corner of the YouTube world that's got
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  creators up in arms. We're talking bands, AI gone
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  rogue, and channels vanishing into the digital ether like they
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  never existed. Buckle up, because this month's
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  headlines are a cautionary tale about tech playing judge and
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  jury. Leading the pack is the Enderman
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  saga. Yeah, that Enderman, the
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  Minecraft Wiz with 380,000 Subs and nine years of solid content.
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  On November 3rd. Poof.
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  His channels terminated out of nowhere.
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  Why? YouTube's AI moderation flagged
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  it for spam and deceptive practices, but Enderman's
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  screaming foul. No warnings, no strikes.
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  Just an automated nuke. Mashable broke the story on the
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  4th, calling it part of a bizarre wave hitting big names.
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  He got it back after appeals, but not before sparking global
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  outrage over AI's itchy trigger finger.
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  Times of India piled on the 11th warning.
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  This could chill free speech if bots keep swinging wild.
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  It's not just him. Scratch it.
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  Gaming gone. 4096 wiped end Manch dust.
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  A YouTube video from the 9th by some tech sleuth rounds up the
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  carnage. Dozens of channels with 10s of
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  thousands of followers torched in a single week, all pinned on
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  YouTube's ramped up AI filters. Creators are pointing fingers at
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  Google's increasingly automated rights management system, per
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  find articles on the 4th, which is mistaking legit vids for low
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  effort slop. Reddit R slash technology lit up
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  on the 7th with theories of shadowy pressure groups forcing
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  platforms to deploy these trigger happy tools, turning
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  moderation into a glitchy guillotine.
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  And get this, YouTube's own policies are fuelling the fire.
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  Back in July, TechCrunch reported a crackdown on mass
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  produced AI spam, but by November it's backfiring hard.
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  The R slash partnered YouTube thread from the 4th sums it up
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  brutally. 2025 has been hell for YouTube, with Google's AI
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  admitting to wrongful bans left and right appeals A slog.
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  Some folks wait weeks only to get again.
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  Mashable's Facebook post on the 4th ties it to demonetizing AI
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  junk. But innocent creators are
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  collateral damage, losing livelihoods overnight.
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  Folks, this isn't just tech drama.
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  It's creators versus the machine and the machines winning.
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  Too often, YouTube says they're tweaking the AI, but until then,
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  back up your channels. Folks, this is Eve reminding
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  you, in the age of bots, even the innocent get glitched.
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  Stay vigilant. Back to you in the studio.