YouTube Accused of Censorship Over Controversial New Bid to ‘Limit’ Access to Videos (Are We Seeing the 'Chinafication' of the Internet in the USA?)

Google it appears is going all in on political correctness now.  And “liberals” you need to pay attention too. This is about narrowing ALL discussion not just speech the “social justice warriors” don’t like. The #OLDMEDIA want to control the narrative again and it looks like Google has joined their cause. 

It should be noted that the establishment has been trying to figure out how to put the information genie back in the bottle for a few years now. Remember when Dianne Feinstein called for the licensing of journalists? Many thought that with a politically correct president in Hillary Clinton they’d be able to shut things down legislatively. Since that didn’t happen we are seeing the powers that be go another route.

Lots of websites are seeing their traffic impacted these days – Right, Left, and other. We should all be very concerned. Some people do not want average everyday people with empowering information. And it appears that the big shots are willing to go to extraordinary lengths to keep people from thinking.

This is against everything the Internet is supposed to stand for.

The only way Google (and others) will learn is if such actions significantly impact its bottom line. So consider that. Hopefully this move toward censorship, toward a truly Orwellian Internet, can be stopped. The Chinese are locking down their Internet as we write this. We must not let America suffer the same fate.

We will be watching closely to see what is thrown into the “can not share” bin.

(From The Sun)

This policy was announced several months ago but has come into force in the past week, prompting anger among members of the YouTube community.

The Sun Online understands Google and YouTube staff refer to the tactic as “tougher treatment”.

One prominent video-maker slammed the new scheme whilst WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange described the measures as “economic censorship”.

However, YouTube sees it as a way of maintaining freedom of speech and allowing discussion of controversial issues without resorting to the wholesale banning of videos.

Videos which are put into a limited state cannot be embedded on other websites. They also cannot be easily published on social media using the usual share buttons and other users cannot comment on them.

Crucially, the person who made the video will no longer receive any payment.

Earlier this week, Julian Assange wrote: “‘Controversial’ but contract-legal videos [which break YouTube's terms and conditions] cannot be liked, embedded or earn [money from advertising revenue].

“What’s interesting about the new method deployed is that it is a clear attempt at social engineering. It isn’t just turning off the ads.

“It’s turning off the comments, embeds, etc too.

“Everything possible to strangle the reach without deleting it.”

Criticism of YouTube’s policies is most acute among people on the right of the political spectrum, who fear that Silicon Valley is dominated by the left and determined to silence opposing voices – a claim denied by tech giants like Facebook and Google.

The new YouTube rules were highlighted this week by Paul Joseph Watson, a globally famous British right wing YouTuber and editor-at-large of Infowars, who spoke out after saying a guest on his online show had one of her videos removed after the appearance.

The black female YouTuber, who uses the name RedPillBlack, made a video entitled “WTF? Black Lives Matter Has A List of Demands for White People!” in response to a member of the activist’s group calls for white people to “give up the home you own to a black or brown family“.

The video was part of a series which features an offensive racial term in its name, which we have decided not to publish, and criticises the BLM member’s statement point by point.

We watched her video and whilst it’s clear that many people might disagree with the political point she is making, the actual video did not appear to be offensive or gratuitous.

“Some people might watch the video and think I’m speaking out against black people,” she said in the video.

“But what I’m doing here is speaking up for black people.”

The video was allegedly banned but later reinstated following a series of tweets from Watson, which you can see below.

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