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'''YouTube Censorship''' has accelerated since the "[[Fake News]]" meme was launched in [[2016]]. In 2018 [[Mike Adams]] registered https://www.youtubecensorship.com to begin  reporting on it.  
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'''YouTube Censorship''' has accelerated since the "[[Fake News]]" meme was launched in [[2016]], and again during the [[COVID-19/Pandemic]], pushing a lot of people on to alternatives such as [[AltCensored]] or [[Bitchute]].  
  
 
==Policy==
 
==Policy==
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[[image:Sign in to youtube.png|left|550px|thumbnail|YouTube requires users sign in to view some content, a form of [[Internet/Censorship/Soft|soft censorship]]]]
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[[image:Bhakdi.png|right|375px|thumbnail|April 2021: In the drive to censor "medical misinformation, in this case from virologist Prof. [[Sucharit Bhakdi]]<ref>https://thenewamerican.com/covid-shots-to-decimate-world-population-warns-dr-bhakdi/</ref>, YouTube now gives no results and a blank screen apart from government sites]]
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After his channel was deleted, [[Sayed Hasan]] charged that "Youtube strives to hide its censorship behind a pseudo-legalistic procedure."<ref name=unz/> [[Soft censorship]] tactics include labelling content as age inappropriate, i.e. requiring users to sign in before viewing it.  
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[[image:Sign in to youtube.png|right|375px|thumbnail|YouTube requires users sign in to view some content, a form of [[Internet/Censorship/Soft|soft censorship]]]]
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[[image:Carey_Wedler-How_I_became_a_self-hating_Jew.png|right|375px|thumb|It appears that what would otherwise may be called legitimate political critique has a greater chance getting censored via sign in requirement when it comes to the [[Zionist]] state of Israel.]]
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After his channel was deleted in 2018, [[Sayed Hasan]] charged that ''"Youtube strives to hide its censorship behind a pseudo-legalistic procedure."'' <ref name=unz/> [[Soft censorship]] tactics include labelling content as age inappropriate, i.e. requiring users to sign in before viewing it and [[selective enforcement]] of its rules.
  
 
==Timeline==
 
==Timeline==
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===2021===
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*November, YouTube censored a number of livestreams and commentary on the [[Kenosha riots|Trial of Kyle Rittenhouse]]. "Policy violations" were cited.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10208323/YouTube-censored-video-streams-independent-legal-experts-commenting-Kyle-Rittenhouse-trial.html</ref>
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*October, YouTube removed a video from the channel owned by [[Big Brother Watch]].<ref>https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vaccine-passport-david-davis-youtube-video-delete-b1938378.html</ref> The video was of British MP [[David Davis]] in which he was criticising [[vaccine passports]]. YouTube reversed their decision after scrutiny.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58915092</ref> On 26 October 2021, the channel of [[Novara Media]] was briefly deleted.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59052155</ref> This was ironic as they have encouraged and even defended [[internet censorship]] in the past.<ref>https://twitter.com/ArchRose90/status/1452975158466158609?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet</ref>
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*September, two [[RT]] German-language YouTube channels were deleted for "[[vaccine]] [[misinformation]]". Russia has threatened to ban YouTube in their country.<ref>https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58737433</ref>
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*August, the channel of [[Sky News Australia]] was striked, preventing the account from uploading new videos for a whole week. They were accused of spreading "[[misinformation]]" about [[COVID]] in breach of community guidelines. A YouTube statement said it had "clear and established [[Covid-19]] medical [[misinformation]] policies based on local and global health authority guidance". A spokesperson told the [[Guardian]] it "did not allow content that denies the existence of Covid-19" or which encouraged people "to use [[hydroxychloroquine]] or [[ivermectin]] to treat or prevent the virus".<ref>''https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58045787''</ref> Senator [[Rand Paul]] was also suspended for a week.<ref>''https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/11/youtube-suspends-rand-paul-covid-masks''</ref>
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*February, [[Ohio Advocates for Medical Freedom]] had a number of videos removed for "[[misinformation]]".<ref>https://apnews.com/article/public-health-misinformation-coronavirus-pandemic-ohio-bills-fe1a3028ab5dbdc1072e4558e9aec760</ref>
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*January, the channel of [[TalkRADIO]] gets shortly "deleted",<ref>http://archive.today/2021.01.05-111901/https://order-order.com/2021/01/05/youtube-terminates-talkradio-channel-following-lockdown-criticism/</ref> 12 hours later reinstated.<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/05/youtube-bans-talkradio-for-allegedly-breaching-content-policy</ref>
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===2020===
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YouTube ramped up [[COVID-19/Censorship|Censorship]] during the [[COVID-19/Pandemic]], removing videos that had been seen by millions of viewers. [[YouTube CEO]] [[Susan Wojcicki]] announced in 2020 that it would censor any opinions about [[COVID-19]] that dissented from [[WHO]] guidelines.<ref>https://www.verdict.co.uk/youtube-coronavirus-ban-who/</ref>
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*On December 9., YouTube declared it would remove "any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the [[US/2020 Presidential election|2020 U.S. Presidential election]]", including "claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors."<ref>https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election</ref>
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*On November 19., Youtube blocked the very popular, left-leaning German independent media site [[KenFM]]<ref>https://kenfm.de/youtube-blocks-kenfm-channel-completely/</ref>.
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* October: YouTube removed the channels of [[The Last American Vagabond]], [[Mouthy Buddha]], [[Dollar Vigilante]]<ref>https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=59818</ref><ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/ExposingthePedocracy/comments/jc5ljv/mouthy_buddha_censored_and_terminated_from/</ref> and [[Derrick Broze]]'s "The Conscious Resistance Network"channel.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20201101133733/https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/293348-2020-10-28-the-conscious-resistance-deleted-from-youtube.htm</ref>
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* June: The channel of [[Ayo Kimathi]], aka Irritated Genie, a Black nationalist according to [[Wikipedia]],<ref>http://archive.today/2020.06.27-200553/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayo_Kimathi</ref> was deleted on the 9th of June.<ref>http://archive.vn/2020.06.21-032638/https://www.facebook.com/irritatedgenieofsoufeeseee/posts/1372951012899799</ref><ref>http://archive.vn/20200621015629/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrAOei_cdg</ref>
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* In May the channel of [[South Front]] with 1,900 videos and approximately 60 million views was deleted. Termination without warning or notification and zero active strikes according to South Front.<ref>https://southfront.org/appeal-of-southfront-steering-committee-regarding-censorship-on-youtube-and-facebook/</ref>
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[[image:Brittany Venti 2020 Tweet YouTube.png|left|300px|thumbnail|[[Brittany Venti]]'s tweet dated April 10, 2020, exposing the hypocrisy of [[YouTube]]'s terms and conditions.]]
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* In April, [[YouTuber]] [[Brittany Venti]] had her livestream on [[YouTube]] taken down mid-stream when she was speaking critically about [[pornography]] and [[sex trafficking]]. Venti tweeted about the hypocrisy of the YouTube’s policy enforcement as many cam-girls are actively promoted by YouTube to children.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2381nxdSgOI</ref>
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In Summer 2019 YouTube announced new policies to bad any videos "alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion." This policy took effect immediately.<ref name=st/> Google CEO clarified that would also target borderline "content which doesn't exactly violate policies".<ref>http://www.madnesshub.com/2019/06/google-ceo-youtube-will-begin-targeting.html</ref>
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*In December 2019, Wojcicki admitted what had long been surmised, that the "trending" content on YouTube ''was'' subject to human censorship. She stated that “We just do a human check to make sure that the content that’s there makes sense to be on the Trending page and available for everyone”, but did not elaborate further.<ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-trending-human-reviewers/</ref> The leak by [[Zach Vorhies]] in August showed that "every day, top 250 videos (on YouTube) in top 26 locales are rated by multiple human raters”.<ref>https://www.theepochtimes.com/google-engineer-leaks-nearly-1000-internal-documents-alleging-bias-censorship_3042234.html</ref>
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*November: "YouTube may terminate your access, or your [[Google]] account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable."<ref>https://www.techspot.com/news/82711-youtube-can-now-delete-accounts-arent-commercially-viable.html</ref>
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*September: "More than 17,000 YouTube channels removed since new hateful content policy implemented"<ref>https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20845071/youtube-hateful-content-policies-channels-comments-videos-susan-wojcicki</ref> - headline by the [[The Verge]]
  
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*In Summer 2019 YouTube announced new policies to bad any videos "alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion." This policy took effect immediately.<ref name=st/> Google CEO clarified that would also target borderline "content which doesn't exactly violate policies".<ref>http://www.madnesshub.com/2019/06/google-ceo-youtube-will-begin-targeting.html</ref>
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"YouTube may terminate your access, or your [[Google]] account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable."<ref>https://www.techspot.com/news/82711-youtube-can-now-delete-accounts-arent-commercially-viable.html</ref>
 
  
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====Disabling search filtering====
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*In April 2019 Youtube blocked [[Press TV]]'s channel along with [[Hispan TV]], another state owned broadcasting corporation aimed at Spanish speaking audience.<ref>https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/23/google-blocks-iranian-state-tvs-youtube-and-gmail-after-anti-israel-propaganda/#6dd0606077bd</ref>
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For over a week after the [[Christchurch Mass Shooting]], the filtering features on [[Youtube]] were disabled.<ref>https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/03/luis-valdes/nz-confiscations-begin-police-going-to-gun-owners-homes-jobs-one-gun-owner-dead/</ref> Youtube later admitted that it had deliberately made it harder to find certain videos.<ref name=st>http://www.startribune.com/youtube-updates-hate-speech-guidelines-to-prohibit-videos/510866032/</ref>
 
  
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===="content that could misinform users..."====
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*For over a week after the [[Christchurch Mass Shooting]] in March, the filtering features on [[Youtube]] were disabled.<ref>https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/03/luis-valdes/nz-confiscations-begin-police-going-to-gun-owners-homes-jobs-one-gun-owner-dead/</ref> Youtube later admitted that it had deliberately made it harder to find certain videos.<ref name=st>http://www.startribune.com/youtube-updates-hate-speech-guidelines-to-prohibit-videos/510866032/</ref>
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[[YouTube]] said it would be making changes to its recommendations algorithm to explicitly deal with "[[conspiracy theory]]" videos. The company says the update will reduce the suggestion of “borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways.” YouTube clarified what kind of videos fit that description by providing three examples: “videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like [[9/11]].” The company clarified that this content doesn’t necessarily violate its community guidelines. This means that while the content may still exist on YouTube, the site’s algorithm will omit these videos from being recommended to its users.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://hpub.org/2019/01/26/article-70566/uncategorized/admin/|title=Youtube to crack down on 9/11 and Flat Earth videos… Of course they had to lump those together|accessdate=26 January 2019}}</ref>
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*January: YouTube said it would be making changes to its recommendations algorithm to explicitly deal with "[[conspiracy theory]]" videos. The company says the update will reduce the suggestion of “borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways.” YouTube clarified what kind of videos fit that description by providing three examples: “videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like [[9/11]].” The company clarified that this content doesn’t necessarily violate its community guidelines. This means that while the content may still exist on YouTube, the site’s algorithm will omit these videos from being recommended to its users.<ref>[https://hpub.org/2019/01/26/article-70566/uncategorized/admin Youtube to crack down on 9/11 and Flat Earth videos… Of course they had to lump those together]</ref>
  
 
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In 2018, of [[Sayed Hasan]] criticised YouTube after it removed his channel on December 2017. This has had 400 videos and over 6 million views, "subtitled in French and English speeches of [[Sayed Hassan Nasrallah]], Secretary General of [[Hezbollah]]", explaining that it was a “violation of the rules concerning violent or graphic content on Youtube”. This contrasts with its acceptance of [[Donald Trump]]'s threat to “completely destroy” [[North Korea]] "or the Israeli bragging about bombing Iran and toppling its regime, assassinating [[Hassan Nasrallah]]".<ref name=unz>https://www.unz.com/article/kafka-2-0-how-youtubes-political-censorship-is-exercised/</ref>
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*[[Mark Crispin Miller]] reports in December 2018 that YouTube had removed a video of [[Mort Sahl]] speaking about the [[JFK Assassination]].<ref>http://markcrispinmiller.com/2018/12/mort-sahl-now-too-dangerous-for-youtube/</ref>
  
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[[image:Youtube_2018_censorship.png|left|380px|thumnbail|It "violates our guidelines"]]
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*In March 2018, YouTube removed all 1700+ videos from [[Mike Adams]]' "Health Ranger" channel, claiming that the videos, covering nutrition, natural medicine, history, science and current events violated their guidelines.<ref>https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-03-youtube-deletes-entire-health-ranger-video-channel-deletes-over-1700-videos-in-latest-politically-motivated-censorship-purge.html</ref>
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In February 2018, Youtube removed a video of an eyewitness to the [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting]], stating that it "violates our guidelines".<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-23/youtube-removing-video-parkland-student-who-claimed-there-was-second-shooter</ref>
 
  
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In March 2018, YouTube removed all 1700+ videos from [[Mike Adams]]' "Health Ranger" channel, claiming that the videos, covering nutrition, natural medicine, history, science and current events violated their guidelines.<ref>https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-03-youtube-deletes-entire-health-ranger-video-channel-deletes-over-1700-videos-in-latest-politically-motivated-censorship-purge.html</ref>
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[[image:Youtube_2018_censorship.png|right|500px|thumnbail|It "violates our guidelines"]]
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*In February 2018, Youtube removed a video of an eyewitness to the [[Stoneman Douglas High School shooting]], stating that it "violates our guidelines".<ref>https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-23/youtube-removing-video-parkland-student-who-claimed-there-was-second-shooter</ref> Also in February the channel of [[Richie Allen]] was removed for interviews he did with [[Wolfgang Halbig]] and [[Michael Rivero]] with a third strike pending.<ref>https://gilad.online/writings/2018/2/22/youtube-deleted-the-richie-allen-show-channel</ref>
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[[Mark Crispin Miller]] reports in December 2018 that YouTube had removed a video of [[Mort Sahl]] speaking about the [[JFK Assassination]].<ref>http://markcrispinmiller.com/2018/12/mort-sahl-now-too-dangerous-for-youtube/</ref>
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*In January, [[Sayed Hasan]] criticised YouTube after it removed his channel in December 2017. This has had 400 videos and over 6 million views, "subtitled in French and English speeches of [[Hassan Nasrallah| Sayed Hassan Nasrallah]], Secretary General of [[Hezbollah]]", explaining that it was a “violation of the rules concerning violent or graphic content on Youtube”. This contrasts with its acceptance of [[Donald Trump]]'s threat to “completely destroy” [[North Korea]] "or the Israeli bragging about bombing Iran and toppling its regime, [[assassinating]] Hassan Nasrallah".<ref name=unz>https://www.unz.com/article/kafka-2-0-how-youtubes-political-censorship-is-exercised/</ref>
  
 
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Prompted by the removal of a video he had posted about the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]], [[Mike Adams]] reported in December 2017 on "the worsening pattern of censorship of political speech by YouTube."<ref>https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-14-youtube-threatens-to-shut-down-health-ranger-channel-over-this-podcast-that-discusses-the-fbis-obstruction-of-justice-forensic-science-fraud.html</ref>
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Prompted by the removal of a video he had posted about the [[2017 Las Vegas shooting]], [[Mike Adams]] reported in December 2017 on "the worsening pattern of censorship of political speech by YouTube."<ref>https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-14-youtube-threatens-to-shut-down-health-ranger-channel-over-this-podcast-that-discusses-the-fbis-obstruction-of-justice-forensic-science-fraud.html</ref> Other commentators from Las Vegas noticed that private video footage from the shooting was widely taken off from the platform at some point.{{cn}}
  
 
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In 2016, YouTube announced that making "negative comments" about someone else and hurting their feelings might be considered sufficient grounds for the to [[censor]] content.<ref>http://www.blacklistednews.com/YouTube_Says_Making_%22Negative_Comments%22_About_Someone_Reason_to_Shut_Channel_Down/52177/0/38/38/Y/M.html</ref> The political commentator [[Gabe Zolna]], who had some very caustic remarks towards [[Hillary Clinton]] during the 2016 US election, had his channel with 18,300 videos<ref>https://www.dailymotion.com/gabor-zolna</ref> and sometimes tens of thousands of views<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20160924042235/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-oi5gaheWr5Ao_-49hthA</ref> the same year removed with strikes in short succession.<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/5812306546001</ref>
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*In 2016, YouTube announced that making "negative comments" about someone else and hurting their feelings might be considered sufficient grounds for to [[censor]] content.<ref>http://www.blacklistednews.com/YouTube_Says_Making_%22Negative_Comments%22_About_Someone_Reason_to_Shut_Channel_Down/52177/0/38/38/Y/M.html</ref>
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*The political commentator [[Gabe Zolna]],<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/channel/zolareportcom</ref> who made some very caustic remarks towards [[Hillary Clinton]] during the 2016 US election, had his channel with 18,300 videos<ref>https://www.dailymotion.com/gabor-zolna</ref> and sometimes tens of thousands of views<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20160924042235/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-oi5gaheWr5Ao_-49hthA</ref> the same year removed with strikes in short succession.<ref>https://www.brighteon.com/5812306546001</ref>
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The comment sections of political or government critical videos of some channels received a huge uptick in [[Spam]] comments since around mid 2015.<ref>http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-psychological-warfare-in-ukraine-targeting-online-independent-media-coverage/5437883 saved at [https://web.archive.org/web/20180126230601/https://www.globalresearch.ca/us-psychological-warfare-in-ukraine-targeting-online-independent-media-coverage/5437883 Archive.org] and [http://archive.is/5hAAM Archive.is]</ref> Channels like [[Truthstream Media]], who experienced manipulation of their view counts since around the same time,<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP82MlVVR28</ref> had on very successful videos which generated tens of thousands of views in the first weeks an assessable number of comments. It was easily feasible for the onlooker to read through the discussion and get an overview about the opinions that get exchanged. The comment section of this channel and others got flooded noticeable at one point, drowning any sensible discussion with several hundreds of annoying and useless statements and replies. This could at the one hand of course mean, that more people choose to leave senseless replies, but also, that as part of [[cyberwar]] the military and contractors have decided to degrade the communication therein.
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In [[2018]] [[Mike Adams]] registered [https://www.youtubecensorship.com youtubecensorship.com] to begin  reporting on it and created the new video hosting platform [[Brighteon]].<ref>https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-15-real-video-is-the-answer-to-youtube-censorship-explains-founder-mike-adams.html</ref> [[Reclaimthenet]] also has a focus on Youtube censorship. The browser plugin [[TubeShift]] allows for searching of deleted videos on other [[video platforms]].<ref>https://reclaimthenet.org/tubeshift-censored-alternative-videos-bitchute-odysee-rumble/</ref>
  
 
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Interest of• AltCensored
• Project Veritas
• Reclaim The Net
YouTube Censorship gained pace during the late 2010s, especially around 2016 and in 2020 during the COVID-19/Panic. Videos which had millions of views were removed, pushing a lot of people to alternative platforms such as AltCensored or Bitchute.

YouTube Censorship has accelerated since the "Fake News" meme was launched in 2016, and again during the COVID-19/Pandemic, pushing a lot of people on to alternatives such as AltCensored or Bitchute.

Policy

April 2021: In the drive to censor "medical misinformation, in this case from virologist Prof. Sucharit Bhakdi[1], YouTube now gives no results and a blank screen apart from government sites
YouTube requires users sign in to view some content, a form of soft censorship
It appears that what would otherwise may be called legitimate political critique has a greater chance getting censored via sign in requirement when it comes to the Zionist state of Israel.

After his channel was deleted in 2018, Sayed Hasan charged that "Youtube strives to hide its censorship behind a pseudo-legalistic procedure." [2] Soft censorship tactics include labelling content as age inappropriate, i.e. requiring users to sign in before viewing it and selective enforcement of its rules.

Timeline

2021

2020

YouTube ramped up Censorship during the COVID-19/Pandemic, removing videos that had been seen by millions of viewers. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki announced in 2020 that it would censor any opinions about COVID-19 that dissented from WHO guidelines.[14]

  • On December 9., YouTube declared it would remove "any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election", including "claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors."[15]
  • On November 19., Youtube blocked the very popular, left-leaning German independent media site KenFM[16].
  • In May the channel of South Front with 1,900 videos and approximately 60 million views was deleted. Termination without warning or notification and zero active strikes according to South Front.[23]
Brittany Venti's tweet dated April 10, 2020, exposing the hypocrisy of YouTube's terms and conditions.
  • In April, YouTuber Brittany Venti had her livestream on YouTube taken down mid-stream when she was speaking critically about pornography and sex trafficking. Venti tweeted about the hypocrisy of the YouTube’s policy enforcement as many cam-girls are actively promoted by YouTube to children.[24]

2019

  • In December 2019, Wojcicki admitted what had long been surmised, that the "trending" content on YouTube was subject to human censorship. She stated that “We just do a human check to make sure that the content that’s there makes sense to be on the Trending page and available for everyone”, but did not elaborate further.[25] The leak by Zach Vorhies in August showed that "every day, top 250 videos (on YouTube) in top 26 locales are rated by multiple human raters”.[26]
  • November: "YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable."[27]
  • September: "More than 17,000 YouTube channels removed since new hateful content policy implemented"[28] - headline by the The Verge
  • In Summer 2019 YouTube announced new policies to bad any videos "alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion." This policy took effect immediately.[29] Google CEO clarified that would also target borderline "content which doesn't exactly violate policies".[30]
  • In April 2019 Youtube blocked Press TV's channel along with Hispan TV, another state owned broadcasting corporation aimed at Spanish speaking audience.[31]
  • For over a week after the Christchurch Mass Shooting in March, the filtering features on Youtube were disabled.[32] Youtube later admitted that it had deliberately made it harder to find certain videos.[29]
  • January: YouTube said it would be making changes to its recommendations algorithm to explicitly deal with "conspiracy theory" videos. The company says the update will reduce the suggestion of “borderline content and content that could misinform users in harmful ways.” YouTube clarified what kind of videos fit that description by providing three examples: “videos promoting a phony miracle cure for a serious illness, claiming the earth is flat, or making blatantly false claims about historic events like 9/11.” The company clarified that this content doesn’t necessarily violate its community guidelines. This means that while the content may still exist on YouTube, the site’s algorithm will omit these videos from being recommended to its users.[33]

2018

  • In March 2018, YouTube removed all 1700+ videos from Mike Adams' "Health Ranger" channel, claiming that the videos, covering nutrition, natural medicine, history, science and current events violated their guidelines.[35]
It "violates our guidelines"
  • In February 2018, Youtube removed a video of an eyewitness to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, stating that it "violates our guidelines".[36] Also in February the channel of Richie Allen was removed for interviews he did with Wolfgang Halbig and Michael Rivero with a third strike pending.[37]
  • In January, Sayed Hasan criticised YouTube after it removed his channel in December 2017. This has had 400 videos and over 6 million views, "subtitled in French and English speeches of Sayed Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary General of Hezbollah", explaining that it was a “violation of the rules concerning violent or graphic content on Youtube”. This contrasts with its acceptance of Donald Trump's threat to “completely destroy” North Korea "or the Israeli bragging about bombing Iran and toppling its regime, assassinating Hassan Nasrallah".[2]

2017

In 2017, YouTube allegedly censored content more swiftly than Facebook or Twitter, deleting 90% of flagged videos within 24 hours.[38]

"Worsening pattern of censorship of political speech"

Prompted by the removal of a video he had posted about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, Mike Adams reported in December 2017 on "the worsening pattern of censorship of political speech by YouTube."[39] Other commentators from Las Vegas noticed that private video footage from the shooting was widely taken off from the platform at some point.[citation needed]

2016

  • In 2016, YouTube announced that making "negative comments" about someone else and hurting their feelings might be considered sufficient grounds for to censor content.[40]
  • The political commentator Gabe Zolna,[41] who made some very caustic remarks towards Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US election, had his channel with 18,300 videos[42] and sometimes tens of thousands of views[43] the same year removed with strikes in short succession.[44]

2015

The comment sections of political or government critical videos of some channels received a huge uptick in Spam comments since around mid 2015.[45] Channels like Truthstream Media, who experienced manipulation of their view counts since around the same time,[46] had on very successful videos which generated tens of thousands of views in the first weeks an assessable number of comments. It was easily feasible for the onlooker to read through the discussion and get an overview about the opinions that get exchanged. The comment section of this channel and others got flooded noticeable at one point, drowning any sensible discussion with several hundreds of annoying and useless statements and replies. This could at the one hand of course mean, that more people choose to leave senseless replies, but also, that as part of cyberwar the military and contractors have decided to degrade the communication therein.

Exposure

In 2018 Mike Adams registered youtubecensorship.com to begin reporting on it and created the new video hosting platform Brighteon.[47] Reclaimthenet also has a focus on Youtube censorship. The browser plugin TubeShift allows for searching of deleted videos on other video platforms.[48]


 

An example

Page nameDescription
DemonetizationA deep state weapon?

 

YouTube/Censorship victims on Wikispooks

TitleDescription
Jair BolsonaroPresident of Brazil who publicly refused a COVID-19 jab and suggested that the virus may have been intentionally created and released.
Dave CullenIrish Youtuber and political dissident.
Patrick LancasterFormer US Navy sailor living in Donbass who covered the war since the beginning.
Matt OrfaleaAmerican video blogger
Rand Paul

 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Integrity Initiative/Leak/3“Find ways to remove e.g. RT/Ruptly video and infographic content from corporate media e.g. newspaper websites, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Such content is quite professionally done, entertaining and cheap (or even free) for cash-strapped corporate media outlets. But for these reasons, this kind of content gets numerous ‘clicks’ and is therefore picked up by reputable outlets that help spread Russian disinformation.”Victor Madeira16 March 2018
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  1. ↑ https://thenewamerican.com/covid-shots-to-decimate-world-population-warns-dr-bhakdi/
  2. ↑ a b https://www.unz.com/article/kafka-2-0-how-youtubes-political-censorship-is-exercised/
  3. ↑ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10208323/YouTube-censored-video-streams-independent-legal-experts-commenting-Kyle-Rittenhouse-trial.html
  4. ↑ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/vaccine-passport-david-davis-youtube-video-delete-b1938378.html
  5. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-58915092
  6. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-59052155
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/ArchRose90/status/1452975158466158609?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
  8. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-58737433
  9. ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-58045787
  10. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/aug/11/youtube-suspends-rand-paul-covid-masks
  11. ↑ https://apnews.com/article/public-health-misinformation-coronavirus-pandemic-ohio-bills-fe1a3028ab5dbdc1072e4558e9aec760
  12. ↑ http://archive.today/2021.01.05-111901/https://order-order.com/2021/01/05/youtube-terminates-talkradio-channel-following-lockdown-criticism/
  13. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/jan/05/youtube-bans-talkradio-for-allegedly-breaching-content-policy
  14. ↑ https://www.verdict.co.uk/youtube-coronavirus-ban-who/
  15. ↑ https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/supporting-the-2020-us-election
  16. ↑ https://kenfm.de/youtube-blocks-kenfm-channel-completely/
  17. ↑ https://www.cryptogon.com/?p=59818
  18. ↑ https://www.reddit.com/r/ExposingthePedocracy/comments/jc5ljv/mouthy_buddha_censored_and_terminated_from/
  19. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20201101133733/https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/News/293348-2020-10-28-the-conscious-resistance-deleted-from-youtube.htm
  20. ↑ http://archive.today/2020.06.27-200553/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayo_Kimathi
  21. ↑ http://archive.vn/2020.06.21-032638/https://www.facebook.com/irritatedgenieofsoufeeseee/posts/1372951012899799
  22. ↑ http://archive.vn/20200621015629/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSrAOei_cdg
  23. ↑ https://southfront.org/appeal-of-southfront-steering-committee-regarding-censorship-on-youtube-and-facebook/
  24. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2381nxdSgOI
  25. ↑ https://reclaimthenet.org/youtube-trending-human-reviewers/
  26. ↑ https://www.theepochtimes.com/google-engineer-leaks-nearly-1000-internal-documents-alleging-bias-censorship_3042234.html
  27. ↑ https://www.techspot.com/news/82711-youtube-can-now-delete-accounts-arent-commercially-viable.html
  28. ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2019/9/3/20845071/youtube-hateful-content-policies-channels-comments-videos-susan-wojcicki
  29. ↑ a b http://www.startribune.com/youtube-updates-hate-speech-guidelines-to-prohibit-videos/510866032/
  30. ↑ http://www.madnesshub.com/2019/06/google-ceo-youtube-will-begin-targeting.html
  31. ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/04/23/google-blocks-iranian-state-tvs-youtube-and-gmail-after-anti-israel-propaganda/#6dd0606077bd
  32. ↑ https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/03/luis-valdes/nz-confiscations-begin-police-going-to-gun-owners-homes-jobs-one-gun-owner-dead/
  33. ↑ Youtube to crack down on 9/11 and Flat Earth videos… Of course they had to lump those together
  34. ↑ http://markcrispinmiller.com/2018/12/mort-sahl-now-too-dangerous-for-youtube/
  35. ↑ https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-03-03-youtube-deletes-entire-health-ranger-video-channel-deletes-over-1700-videos-in-latest-politically-motivated-censorship-purge.html
  36. ↑ https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-02-23/youtube-removing-video-parkland-student-who-claimed-there-was-second-shooter
  37. ↑ https://gilad.online/writings/2018/2/22/youtube-deleted-the-richie-allen-show-channel
  38. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/technology/germany-hate-speech-facebook-tech.html
  39. ↑ https://www.naturalnews.com/2017-12-14-youtube-threatens-to-shut-down-health-ranger-channel-over-this-podcast-that-discusses-the-fbis-obstruction-of-justice-forensic-science-fraud.html
  40. ↑ http://www.blacklistednews.com/YouTube_Says_Making_%22Negative_Comments%22_About_Someone_Reason_to_Shut_Channel_Down/52177/0/38/38/Y/M.html
  41. ↑ https://www.brighteon.com/channel/zolareportcom
  42. ↑ https://www.dailymotion.com/gabor-zolna
  43. ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20160924042235/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCq-oi5gaheWr5Ao_-49hthA
  44. ↑ https://www.brighteon.com/5812306546001
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  46. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP82MlVVR28
  47. ↑ https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-05-15-real-video-is-the-answer-to-youtube-censorship-explains-founder-mike-adams.html
  48. ↑ https://reclaimthenet.org/tubeshift-censored-alternative-videos-bitchute-odysee-rumble/
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