YouTube Filters Conservative Videos - What to Do, and More

You have probably read about Google blocking conservative webs sites in Google searches. You have probably read about YouTube (YT) doing the same as well as defunding some conservative channels and shutting down channels.

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/08/conservative-lee-stranahan-youtube-account-taken-discussing-radical-islam/

This is most likely just the beginning. Hopefully we are ready to play chess and not checkers. We need to be thinking several moves ahead. In fact thinking ahead to several endings that all end badly. The following is a shopping cart of ideas that deal with current issues as well as some bad endings and many points in between. These ideas may be disjointed but think of them as lego pieces that can be connected any way you like or left behind.

To set the tone I need to share a story. One day at work someone brought in one of those 5 quart containers of ice cream. So I put a great big scoop of Ice cream in my half full cup of coffee. One of the guys looked at me from across the room and loudly said no (as in “this is just not right”). Much teasing and comments followed. I didn’t care. My only response was “It’s ice cream……Ice……CREAM”. They don’t know what they are missing. So that outside the box thinking gets applied to all sorts of things. I am planning to do a set of experiments in the near future to find out how well a small 12 volt solar panel on a roof top works to pick up modulated light beams (light wave communications) in direct sun light as well as in the dark.

Most people will not make a move until the herd moves and will only follow where the herd leads. They are stuck buying the products they find off the shelf and are believing only the ideas and “facts” served up to the herd. Every now and then, I will loudly comment in the break room as I am pouring a cup of coffee, “I wish I had some ice cream”.

So let’s serve some up.

The free flow of ideas (free speech, freedom of the press and more often the free flow and easy access to these) is being impeded in various ways with attacks and impediments coming from multiple sources. This is all going somewhere. Most likely a modern version of 1984. Currently there are the above mentioned YT and Google issues as well as denial-of-service attacks. Some web site owners have dealt with the temporary or permanent lack of access to their sites with mirror sites that give people who go to their site an alternate address to get most or all of the same content. Web sites that provide email updates should make sure the people who sign up for updates have made updates accepted from two or three email addresses from the site owner. If either site goes down email updates should kick into high gear. Proactively a buddy system would be helpful. How great would that be if allnewspipeline site went down and stevequayle put up a link on his home page to a temporary page that looks just like the ANP site with links and all. But the links are SQ pages with ANP content. Minimally SQ and others can put up a notice of the issue and the mirror site address. ANP should also post a story on beforeitsnews with all the details and should send an email or two to the editors asking them to put the story on the editor’s choice list for a few days. Considering the past history with ANP authors and BIN I can’t see why they wouldn’t help out. Perhaps drudge would post a story but not from BIN. Maybe Natural News. A DOS attack should trigger more than a Pavlovian response of waiting it out and posting a follow up story (Pavlov….that name rings a bell). I we all magically link arms in an attack it will send a message. Site owners may want to author a story or two now with the literal dashed line blanks to be filled in that will be ready for posting within minutes of an attack:

On (date. time) it appears that a denial-of-service attack was launched. (generic content. what is DOS DDOS. accounts of past attacks). This is ongoing. details to follow as they are available.

All of this and more is a DROS (Distributed Redirecting Of Service).

Perhaps this is an over the top response to an attack that may end after a few hours but it may be worth a live test when not a lot is at stake. which leads me to the next point. Testing testing testing. Most important in regard to prepping but applicable to so many other things.

Another story. I bought a crank light marketed / manufactured by a well known tool manufacturer. It was junk. It didn’t work very long at all. Fortunately I tested it till it didn’t work any more. The same thing happened with a shake light I bought. So when I got home from work a few weeks ago an hour into a 12 hour power outage I was happy to see the happy glow of led lighting and low voltage whirling fans. Everything worked great with no shaking or cranking or wiggling. We were ready for a much longer outage since I had previously tested one of the fans 24/7 for weeks connected to the micro-solar set up. Testing testing testing.

What happens if the internet goes down? One site owner transmits regularly on shortwave. The same person has suggested that the internet may be up and running but unusable by the vast majority of people will not be able to connect to websites via the web address / domain name (www.name.com). He had made a point in the past to inform is readers how to reach his site with his IP address. I can’t find the article. Just pasting in an IP address does not work.  This needs further research.

So with no internet we need to re-live the past. Before the internet there was BBS (Bulletin Board System). The short version: People access your bulletin board computer that is connected to a phone line through a modem using a terminal program and their modem. When your computer is accessed they can do things like download files or chat depending on how you set up your bulletin board. This is slow and very limited in regard to the number of people who could access information in a 24 hour period but could be useful to a core group of people who would be given access (the private number and instructions). This would need set up and testing by all parties ahead of the need for it. Multiple BBSs with multiple owners in various locations sharing files to make available would be helpful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system . See also Fidonet (still in use): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet .

Shortwave has already been mentioned. News letters via US Mail used to be popular.

YouTube (YT):

I think YT needs some competition. My vote is for vimeo.com. I noticed that there is quite a few Steve Quayle videos there. Perhaps YT would change their ways in regard to filtering conservative videos if the job of finding and filtering became too big due to a spike in volume. If it became known that a particular video (of great importance) became hidden in a YT site search a small volunteer army could spring into action by posting the same video with modified titles and run times / format changes multiple times. Apparently YT can detect if you upload the same video more than once. Cutting one or a few seconds off the beginning or end and modifying the title should fix that. Some titles could have some level of ambiguity in regard to the political position of the poster. For example: “Hillary does a wonderful job of clearing up mystery of missing emails…or not?”. So if a video ends up MIA on a search, 10 volunteers are alerted and within 48 hours, 150 to 200 videos are uploaded to take its place.

Well… If YT wants to relegate itself to the low level task of being a file storage site then we just need a dedicated site with a mini search engine that links the user to only conservative videos on YT. Videos can be found two ways on this hypothetical site. Keyword search / title search and topic pages. The keyword search searches this website. Not YT. There is no filter. The results show a list of hits that display title and a brief description and also the YT link to click on. The topic pages would be very useful. Imagine a page with 20 or 30 videos on Benghazi from trusted YT posters. Imagine 50 other pages on important subjects. I think a Breaking News page would be useful also. I think this sort of site would work well for articles also. Perhaps the two could be on one site. I think this site could give BIN and Drudge a run for the money. It would have good features from both. It would have the topic pages and permanence of stories of BIN but the filtering of the site owner like Drudge. Content would be easy to manage if the site owner made a list of quality, trusted sources of videos (and or articles) and if the links, titles and descriptions were provided by the sources to the site owner via email in a predetermined format. The site owner needs to update at most 3 pages: all posts: for searching. Applicable topic page (or tag search from all posts page). Breaking news: If applicable. As a courtesy to the sources the links to their web sites or YT channels is provided on a “Links” page. Have you heard of Prepper Website? (www.prepperwebsite.com/) He (Todd) has the latest articles listed on the home page and notice how many source web sites he has listed. He is THE website for prepping. Here is his version of the topic page:

https://www.prepperwebsite.com/tag-cloud/ .

If the site became popular enough it could be the go to page for conservatives looking for a YT video rather than going to YT. And not a single crappy video to be found.