“We’ve steadily seen false claims about the coronavirus vaccines spill over into misinformation about vaccines in general, and we’re now at a point where it’s more important than ever to expand the work we started with Covid-19 to other vaccines,” YouTube said in a blog post on Wednesday. The new …
Read More »As Merkel fashions her exit, the blocking of RT’s German-language YouTube may not be the only Russia crisis her successor inherits
On Tuesday, YouTube banned two channels belonging to RT’s German-language affiliates in a move that the Russian Foreign Ministry has said amounts to “censorship” and “aggression.” The response has been furious, with Moscow threatening to block the site altogether and insisting it could have only taken place with the “obvious …
Read More »Russia will take ‘zero tolerance’ approach to US tech giant YouTube’s ‘censorship’ of RT’s German-language channels, Kremlin warns
Speaking to journalists on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary said that “there are of course signs that Russian law has been broken” after the platform moved to ban RT DE and Der Fehlende Part from its site. “In fact, it has been broken very brazenly,” Dmitry Peskov added. “Because …
Read More »YouTube could face total BAN in Russia if tech giant doesn’t unblock RT’s German-language channels, Moscow’s media regulator warns
In the statement, released on Wednesday morning, the country’s national media regulator, Roskomnadzor, said that it “demands all restrictions be lifted from the YouTube channels RT DE and Der Fehlende Part (DFP), run by the news outlet RT, as soon as possible.” According to the authorities, failure to do so …
Read More »YouTube is out of order banning channels like RT in Germany, as it’s got a legal pass in exchange for promising free speech
It must be a wonderful feeling to sit among the tech giant royalty high above the little people in Mountain View, California, making arbitrary, far-reaching decisions to punish anyone who doesn’t see the world the way you do. We’re all mere playthings at their mercy. Flick a switch here, click …
Read More »YouTube deletes 2 channels of RT’s sister project RT DE with 600K subscribers over alleged community guidelines violation
The Google-owned video service “has deleted the RT DE channel, as well as our second channel DFP [Der Fehlende Part, “the missing piece”], without the right to restoration,” Dinara Toktosunova, head of RT in Germany, announced on her Telegram channel on Tuesday. The main RT DE channel was barred from …
Read More »Could growing censorship lead to a mass YouTube exodus? Glenn Greenwald & Tulsi Gabbard move to ‘free speech platform’ Rumble
The veteran journalist, along with former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard and several other well-known commentators, have joined Rumble’s “deep pool of content talent,” the company said in a press release on Thursday. As part of the agreement, Rumble will provide the all-star content creators with resources to help them produce videos …
Read More »‘Badge of honor’: Rand Paul fires back at YouTube after ban over mask comments
“A badge of honor,” Paul said on Tuesday, adding that “leftwing cretins” at YouTube gave him a seven-day ban over a video that quoted “two peer-reviewed articles” questioning the effectiveness of cloth masks. Paul had posted the video on August 3, in response to YouTube censoring an interview he gave …
Read More »It beggars belief that a trans YouTube star, arrested for allegedly raping his own mother, will be jailed with women inmates
I started writing about the case of Chris Chan earlier this week, when I read about the transgender YouTuber’s arrest. The vlogger and artist, who goes by the name Christine Weston Chandler, was arrested after a leaked phone call revealed her allegedly admitting to sexually abusing her elderly mother. Chandler …
Read More »YouTube bans Sky News Australia for a week over alleged Covid misinformation
The one-week suspension was issued following a review of Sky News Australia’s “old videos,” the channel announced on Sunday. Under the terms of the temporary ban, for seven days, YouTube will allow no videos or livestreams to be posted by the channel, which has 1.86 million subscribers, and some earlier videos …
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