YouTube, the world's largest video site, just announced another massive censorship campaign, this time called the "Nazi Ban":
'We've been working closely with lawmakers and taking a look at our approach towards hateful content. We will ban supremacists, and delete hundreds of thousands of videos that question events like the Holocaust and the massacre at Sandy Hook. We now prohibit content alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, or religion.'
This was another a pre-meditated attack on the independent alternative media, which serves to question the official narrative and prevent manipulation of the people through misinformation campaigns.
Up to a million videos were instantly deleted, as though they had never existed, and countless channels have been removed, penalized, or demonetized. One such demonetized channel is Press for Truth (Dan Dicks) who announced today his approximately $4000/month income was revoked by Google/YouTube. (Dan can hardly claim to be surprised, though... he has been predicting this exact thing would happen, for a very long time!)
Myself? I never partnered with Google (though the need for funds was often a barrier to my activism, and they offered several times). I've made $0 on YouTube in 10+ years of activism, and I've been heavily censored for at least the past 7. I've never had any income as an activist, so there has never been any way for them to attack my finances. They scrubbed me and all my activism off FaceBook a few weeks ago. It hurt my platform - my reach - but it didn't hurt my pocketbook.
Here's one of my videos talking about Sandy Hook, back in 2012. It hasn't been deleted - yet.
"Borderline" content
The "borderline content" issue came up a few months ago when YouTube's CEO Larry Page finally admitted they censor and shadowban anyone discussing 9/11 and other conspiracies. (More info on that here.)
😶 Here's what you can NEVER say on YouTube, FaceBook, and anywhere else mainstream:
[Keep in mind that I've never associated with, promoted, sheltered, approved of, made excuses for, or otherwise endorsed anything to do with Nazism. So you Nazis out there, don't think I'm being soft on you, you bunch of narrowminded immoral bigoted goofs. That whole line of thinking has long ago been discredited, and anyone flying that flag in 2019 is either completely off their rocker, or paid to act that way. I can't remember the last time I saw genuine Nazi content on YouTube, or anywhere mainstream. Unless you're throwing the term around to include everything you dislike, there's certainly not much ongoing promotion of this particular doctrine. To be very clear: I don't know any Nazis, 4/20 is about weed to me, and I don't judge people for being who they are (age, sex, ethnicity, etc). It's possible to criticize this "Nazi Ban" policy, and also be anti-Nazi. Thanks for understanding this clarification!]
That said, it's true that a cabal (of mostly Zionist Jews) controls the majority of mainstream society, through politics, media, entertainment, banking, the military-industrial-complex, and other positions of power/influence. YouTube labeled this latest censorship campaign a "Nazi Ban", but the ultimate goal is really to silence any - and all - critics of the Zionist Jews. Nazis are, for the most part in this situation, just boogeymen - used to justify complete control over the narrative. 'If you're not with us, you're with the Nazis!'
If you name the cabal, or talk about their censorship, you too will be censored, banned, deleted, blocked - and possibly labeled a Nazi or anti-Semite.
What (probably) got me banned on FaceBook:
About a month ago, my friend and fellow-activist Steve Grant posted a FB meme warning against 'TalmudVision' (a play on the word TeleVision). The comment section contained a fake conversation between 2 of Steve's supposed friends 'Alex' and 'Donnie', which were actually shill accounts owned by the same anonymous person.
When I replied that TalmudVision is 'TV and related media like JouTube', they called me anti-Semitic AND Nazi-ish, and got angry toward Steve for posting the meme. Normally I'd just block them and ignore it, but I decided to let them have an earful of my opinion on the matter.
Then, I hit them with the lyrics to one of Steve's best tracks on this topic, Murder the Mainstream:
In 2 hours, my account was permanently deleted, without warning. Official reason: they can't be certain I'm the legitimate owner of the account. I sent in a scan of my ID, confirmed my phone number, no response. Just like that, years of online activism removed from the history books. Tried to make a new account, but it got deleted too.
And despite granting myself the right to free speech on YouTube several years ago, I've still had to self-censor, and altar the direction of my channel there, for fear of being outright deleted like so many others lately.
I'm extremely uncomfortable about censoring myself, and I've been a constant critic of censorship on FaceBook and YouTube since starting here on Steem almost 2 years ago. See here, here, here, here, etc. Then there was the time I was banned for a month from FaceBook, for discussing free speech on FaceBook! I have much to say, but I'm banned or heavily censored by the mainstream sites.
I've been asked to consider applying to the new 3speak.online site, which supports censored and deplatformed activists like myself. I'm excited to learn more about it, and maybe try it out. (Here is their intro/info post.)
Hopefully, those affected today can recover and regroup, and continue onward, this time with less reliance on funding from the enemies of free speech.
"If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along." - Carl Sagan
In Liberty,
DRutter