Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
“Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies,” a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
“YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community.”
Explosive Media’s content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
Ehy Google, what about the anti-vaxers, fake-moon-landing, qanon channels, and similar shit?
Conservative slop is always permitted on conservative media.
What about the pro Trump and pro US?
I’m fine with removing them as well
Remove Youtube
“YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community.”
- Bullsh*t it doesn’t and
- Which one of those categories does an obvious satire / parody channel fall under?
That Hegseth one was pure gold. I’m going to be bummed when it’s gone
Is this like when we banned the Chinese electric cars because we dont feel like competing anymore?
More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.
Or women athletes because they were better at certain sports
Sleazy company
Put them up on peertube.
I have not only de-googled myself, but I have de-Americaned too Moved all my online business to European equivalents. It has been eye opening as not only are the European equivalents comparable, but they had surprise extras that saved me money overall. That and OMG they are so much easier to setup and navigate as I am not wading through offers, upgrades, pop ups and dark patterns all over the dang place. It is like I have exited an abusive relationship with America that I did not even realize was as bad as it was. I love America, but I cannot be a part of funding their fascism.
where are our noble free speech warriors though?
Sucking on boots
Every American company is loyal to the empire. If not by gleeful obedience then at least by threat of court orders and political pressure. I guess in Google’s case it’s that kind of gleeful obedience.
They are welcome to join the fediverse and put videos on peertube, odysse, bitchute, kick, whatever.
That means the videos were effective; I don’t agree with Youtube’s decision but it’s their business I guess.
Now I want to watch the videos
TIL .ml loves mass-spam of genAI slopaganda if it’s in support of a cause they’re aligned with. Good to know.
yes. we dislike things that are bad, and we tolerate the things that can do good.
Not even a little surprised that tankies – the fucking cognoscenti of rhetoric that pretends to care about a bad thing, masking that the real goal is for “their side” to have a monopoly on the bad thing – lack consistent ethics when it comes to destroying the planet and flooding out human-made media for shitty, braindead, dubiously effective propaganda.
lack consistent ethics
Consistent ethics is when I declare all sides bad and ignore geopolitical context
destroying the planet
The tankies is China are creating the first electrostate in human history and installing more renewables energy capacity than all of the lib states
flooding out human-made media
It’s the tankies that are doing this (not big tech). I am smart
Quick username question: opinions on North Korea? Since we’re on the whole “shitty ethics” thing.
Sounds a lot like: “We broadly support North Korea, but that’s too embarrassing to say directly, so we’ll just shitpost about it like a neo-Nazi would when asked a direct question about their abhorrent beliefs – afraid of frightening away the normies by revealing their ‘power level’.”
It’s comforting to me that you have to carry the level of shame that your beliefs are unspeakable in spaces dominated by sane people – and are barely even speakable in this deranged hellhole for fear that your monstrous beliefs will surface above the irony poisoning and scare away the few people with functioning consciences who stumbled into this from the front page.
I support North Korea, cry about it halfwit
Smooth pivot. Really stuck the landing.
Just wanted to cut through the bullshit and remind myself that when they said I think “all sides bad and ignore geopolitical context”, they were definitely also referring to among the most reprehensible authoritarian regimes on Earth that they support.
Like it’s some ridiculous, hand-wavey stance to think the US and North Korea (and obviously Iran, but that doesn’t fully illustrate how depraved their worldview is) are simultaneously bad.
Just wanted to cut through the bullshit and remind myself that when they said I think “all sides bad and ignore geopolitical context”, they were definitely also referring to among the most reprehensible authoritarian regimes on Earth that they support.
Continue to ignore geopolitical context. Not like the US killed 1/5th of the north Korean population or anything. Not like everything you think you know about the DPRK comes from south Korea (which is US occupied). Stay ignorant and mad lib
For the less ignorant onlookers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0
