Today’s blacklisted American: Pro-life news organization blacklisted by Google’s YouTube
They’re coming for you next: The pro-life news organization, LifteSiteNews, has been blacklisted by Google’s YouTube, which on February 10th without warning removed all the organization’s videos.
This was not the first time YouTube had banned the organization’s work. The reasons as always were specious.
A spokesman for Google, the company that owns YouTube, told The Blaze the LifeSiteNews channel was shut down for repeated violations of the company’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. Any content promoting prevention methods that differs from information given by local health authorities or the WHO is prohibited. “Any channel that violates our COVID-19 misinformation policy will receive a strike, which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube,” the spokesman said.
In other words, the only medical opinions allowed free speech by YouTube and Google are those that agree with “local health authorities or the WHO.” I emphasize the word “authorities” because of its fundamental meaning, someone in charge who must be obeyed, not because they know more but because they are in charge.
No one else is allowed to speak. If you wish to dispute these authorities their and their minion’s answer will be “Shut up!”, an action hostile at its core to free speech and the First Amendment.
Note that LifeSiteNews is not dead. They were prepared for Google’s action, and had backed up their videos and quickly moved their site to the new video site, Rumble.
Which by the way I encourage everyone else to do. The more people upload videos and view videos there, the less power and impact future blacklists by the fascist thugs at Google and YouTube will have.
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They’re coming for you next: The pro-life news organization, LifteSiteNews, has been blacklisted by Google’s YouTube, which on February 10th without warning removed all the organization’s videos.
This was not the first time YouTube had banned the organization’s work. The reasons as always were specious.
A spokesman for Google, the company that owns YouTube, told The Blaze the LifeSiteNews channel was shut down for repeated violations of the company’s COVID-19 misinformation policy. Any content promoting prevention methods that differs from information given by local health authorities or the WHO is prohibited. “Any channel that violates our COVID-19 misinformation policy will receive a strike, which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube,” the spokesman said.
In other words, the only medical opinions allowed free speech by YouTube and Google are those that agree with “local health authorities or the WHO.” I emphasize the word “authorities” because of its fundamental meaning, someone in charge who must be obeyed, not because they know more but because they are in charge.
No one else is allowed to speak. If you wish to dispute these authorities their and their minion’s answer will be “Shut up!”, an action hostile at its core to free speech and the First Amendment.
Note that LifeSiteNews is not dead. They were prepared for Google’s action, and had backed up their videos and quickly moved their site to the new video site, Rumble.
Which by the way I encourage everyone else to do. The more people upload videos and view videos there, the less power and impact future blacklists by the fascist thugs at Google and YouTube will have.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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c/o Robert Zimmerman
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You can also support me by buying one of my books, as noted in the boxes interspersed throughout the webpage or shown in the menu above.
I think Glenn Reynolds put it best – those of us who do not subscribe to the propaganda of the Left should never have left the wide-open reaches of the blogosphere for the fenced and Stasi-patrolled pastures of Facebook, Twitter, Google, etc.
Unfortunately, we did, so until and unless we are in a position to use anti-trust law to break up these fascist organizations, we need to return to those dispersed realms. So I concur with you and also urge everyone to stop using these companies’ products as much as possible.
You write:
So I concur with you and also urge everyone to stop using these companies’ products as much as possible.
Question:
How?
Ingvar: Notice that there are no Google ads on my webpage. Note too that I do not use Google as my search engine, and haven’t for more than a decade. I also dumped gmail about eight years ago.
I have no Facebook page, never use Twitter, am trying to encourage people who suggest evening pauses to use alternatives to YouTube.
The goal isn’t to destroy these companies, it is to make them feel some financial pain because their competitors are gaining market share. The competition will force them to straighten up, or they will go away.
And the key is to make a little effort to do so.
Rumble is a ghost town. Youtubers are complaining, but few are moving.
Proton Mail has been wonderful.
Parler not fully up.
Gab..not sure.. joined but not yet getting it, but I have never been a twitter/facebook person.
I think this is a mistake on the part of the Trump team:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/02/trump-submits-formal-appeal-reinstated-facebook-instagram/
Trump IMO needs to probably join and help build Parler or Gab in the interests of time and reject Twitter, Facebook and Youtube. Embrace Bitchute as a video platform.
By Trump appealing to these platforms (Asking for permission in order to play by their rules?) validates and empowers them and he remains under their censorship thumb. Don’t do that, you must break these politically biased and dangerous to freedom companies that specialize in censorship and promoting the Leftist world agenda and build what will be seen as the viable alternative to them.