Last week I posted my video on Vox Media copyright
striking Bitwit and ReviewTechUSA for their
reaction videos to The Verge PC build guide
video in September 2018.
Bitwit and ReviewTechUSA appealed to YouTube
and got the copyright strikes removed.
Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief at The Verge,
stated in an article that this situation could
have been avoided if the content creators
had reached out to him first.
As many content creators pointed out, fair
use under the copyright law does not require
asking permission to make videos.
I called that situation #adulting since it
was similar to my recent video about
Bill Maher and Stan Lee.
In today’s video we will learn a new hashtag,
#SomethingPostive.
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Steve at GamersNexus on Twitter reached out
to interview Nilay Patel by either flying
him down to the GamersNexus studio or flying
up to The Verge headquarters to discuss
the copyright strikes.
Nilay Patel's response was somewhat incoherent
since he still perceives himself as being
the victim of a "racist harassment campaign"
by Internet trolls.
He challenged Steve to "make something positive
for the world".
Steve turned that failed insult into a successful
positive by donating $270 in ad revenues from
his reaction video of The Verge PC build guide,
and $1,000 of his own money to his favorite
charity, the Eden Reforestation Project.
The Eden Reforestation Project provides trees
and jobs to reforest impoverished areas around
the world as a way to combat global warming
and human slavery.
Trees removes carbon from the atmosphere that
causes global warming, purifies the water
table for drinking, and stops soil erosion
that prevents farms from being productive.
Farmers who cannot farm for a living will
travel to the cities to get jobs that might
put them into modern day slavery that is common
in poorer countries.
Steve tweeted an image of his donation receipt
to Nilay Patel with the hashtag, #SomethingPositive,
and challenged everyone else to do something
similar by donating to the Eden Reforestation
Project or their favorite charity.
Nilay Patel has received a steady stream of
tweets with #SomethingPositive, mostly with
images of donation receipts and some with
sharp comments regarding the copyright strikes.
I jumped on the #SomethingPostive by donating
$71 dollars to the Second Harvest Food Bank
of Silicon Valley.
Why $71 and the Second Harvest Food Bank?
My channel does not qualify for ad revenues
as it does not have 1,000 subscribers and
4,000 hours of watch time in the last 12 months.
When I made my donation on Friday, February
22, 2019, my channel had 71 subscribers and
I donated $1 per subscriber.
When I got serious about posting weekly videos
on YouTube, it took 14 months to go from three
subscribers in December 2017 to 56 subscribers
in January 2019.
This month, February 2019, my channel had
15 new subscribers, making it likely that
reaching 100 subscribers will happen a lot
sooner than a year.
So I donated $71 to the Second Harvest Food
Bank, a local food bank that helps those in
Silicon Valley who are less fortunate in providing
food for themselves and their family.
Contrary to popular perceptions not everyone
in Silicon Valley is a newly minted billionaire.
A family of four making $120,000 per year
in San Francisco is considered “low income”
by the U.S. government.
A family of four anywhere else making $25,000
per year is considered low income.
Some people consider me to be part of the
“working poor” because I make $55,000
in my government I.T. job, live in a studio
apartment for almost forever, and cannot afford
to own three models of the Tesla car.
Never mind the burger flippers at McDonald
are making minimum wage in Silicon Valley.
I first became aware of Second Harvest when
I worked at Cisco Systems in 2013.
Cisco had a policy of donating a team’s
time to helping a nearby charity.
The Second Harvest Food Bank was just around corner
on
North First Street in San Jose.
Cisco got a tax write off, the team got paid
a regular day, and the food bank got free
workers for a day.
My team spent a day sorting good plums from
bad plums out of four huge bins donated by
a Central Valley farm.
That was a lot of plums.
Ever since then the Second Harvest Food Bank
has been my number one charity for donations
in recent years.
Second Harvest Food Bank in Silicon Valley
has a 97% rating by Charity Navigator, which
means that it is a verified public charity,
financially responsible, and transparent and
accountable in its mission.
Please take a moment to consider donating
to the Eden Reforestation Projects, a food
bank in your area, or your favorite charity.
Links to everything that I have mentioned
in this video can be found in the description
below.
Thank you for watching.
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