Tag: youtube censorship
The current social/political/media climate in America today is likely to bring about the rise of a far more insidious and dangerous type of censorship: self-censorship.
May 20, 2020, Infowars host Alex Jones revealed Joe Rogan had signed a $100 million exclusivity contract with Spotify for his Joe Rogan Experience Podcast. According to Rogan, the move is his way to strike back against YouTube censorship #censorship
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki — wife of Google product director Dennis Troper — says the platform will ban videos that contradict World Health Organization guidance on the pandemic or share “fake or unproven coronavirus remedies” #censorship
Brian Rose of London Real announced that David Icke has been removed from both YouTube and Facebook within a 24 hour period. Rose #davidicke
The massive video sharing platform claimed to be targeting hateful content, “supremacists,” conspiracy theorists and anything that promotes discrimination or segregation based on sexual orientation, religion, race, gender, age and more.
The West is witnessing a remarkable new offensive in the war on consciousness, this time in the arena of information awareness. When a group of people gets together and conspires to deliberately restrict access to points-of-view, opinions, ideas, personalities and information, then those people are engaged in a struggle to control other’s perception of the world. Their aim is to control awareness of the diversity of possibilities in how the world is perceived. To shut down imagination.
In this video, Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange is joined by Derrick Broze to discuss YouTube and its financial support of mainstream news while suppressing alternative outlets. Facebook has moved in a very similar direction as well, removing the fan pages of over 80 alternative news sites – including ConsciousLifeNews.com.
Here’s how the new information box will work according to WIRED: If a user searches and clicks on a what is deemed to be a conspiracy video, YouTube will now link to a Wikipedia page that will aim to debunk the claim alongside the video.
To not be so blatant about their attempt to quash peaceful anti-war messages, YouTube is employing a form of soft censorship. Instead of simply deleting the videos—which has happened to the Free Thought Project on numerous occasions—YouTube is moving to slowly strangle alternative media through defunding their accounts, limiting their reach, and informing new viewers that the content may be offensive or extreme.
In the last week, we’ve witnessed a massive crackdown on alternative media — the likes of which are unprecedented. Quite literally overnight, YouTube issued a sweeping update and demonetized thousands of video in accounts across all political spectrums.
