drypowder
Les Deplorables
A couple of different threads have noted that many gun channels on Youtube have received "strikes" (as in 3 strikes, your account gets terminated). It's not just gun channels, it's lots of conservative channels.
What's happened is Google (Youtube's owner) has a Trusted Flaggers (TF) program where they outsource the flagging to a bunch of groups. We don't know who all the groups are, but we know the SPLC and ADL are among them. Based on that, I would guess the TF participants are mostly leftists. Now why would Google bring known leftist organizations into their TF program? Because Youtube is run by liberals. In fact, there is a very far left streak at Google - see the James Damore scandal (thread here).
Here's an article on Youtube censorship: YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos
So the situation is that those of us who use Youtube are playing on the left's turf, and we are at the mercy of their censorship (see the repressive and brutal history of Marxism for what constitutes mercy for Marxists). We need to find alternative video platforms where conservatives can share ideas freely without Marxists deciding it's "hate speech" and shutting it down.
I've been looking around and the best one I've found so far is BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/
It uses peer-to-peer technology to decentralize, which lowers their costs. So you sometimes have to wait for videos to load. There's also some white supremacist content on there - fair warning; perhaps not surprising given that they were the first to be chased off Youtube (but if BitChute catches on, they'll become a tiny minority of the content; no censorship means just that - if you don't like something, don't watch it; or even better yet, refute it with reason, logic and evidence!). But it's not like Youtube doesn't have black supremacist content, not to mention endless amounts of disparaging of the West.
But post up if you've found others.
What's happened is Google (Youtube's owner) has a Trusted Flaggers (TF) program where they outsource the flagging to a bunch of groups. We don't know who all the groups are, but we know the SPLC and ADL are among them. Based on that, I would guess the TF participants are mostly leftists. Now why would Google bring known leftist organizations into their TF program? Because Youtube is run by liberals. In fact, there is a very far left streak at Google - see the James Damore scandal (thread here).
Here's an article on Youtube censorship: YouTube Secretly Using SPLC To Police Videos
So the situation is that those of us who use Youtube are playing on the left's turf, and we are at the mercy of their censorship (see the repressive and brutal history of Marxism for what constitutes mercy for Marxists). We need to find alternative video platforms where conservatives can share ideas freely without Marxists deciding it's "hate speech" and shutting it down.
I've been looking around and the best one I've found so far is BitChute: https://www.bitchute.com/
It uses peer-to-peer technology to decentralize, which lowers their costs. So you sometimes have to wait for videos to load. There's also some white supremacist content on there - fair warning; perhaps not surprising given that they were the first to be chased off Youtube (but if BitChute catches on, they'll become a tiny minority of the content; no censorship means just that - if you don't like something, don't watch it; or even better yet, refute it with reason, logic and evidence!). But it's not like Youtube doesn't have black supremacist content, not to mention endless amounts of disparaging of the West.
But post up if you've found others.
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