Paul, who defeated ex-UFC fighter Ben Askren by first-round knockout last month, has become something of an unlikely voice in the fighter pay debate in which White becomes occasionally embroiled. The internet star has boasted that Askren’s disclosed payout of $500,000 for less than a full round of boxing eclipsed …
Read More »YouTube censors RT for daring to entertain unapproved thoughts, but tyranny won’t build confidence in the prescribed narrative
YouTube on Friday disappeared four videos from RT’s channel and assessed a strike, which will sanction the news outlet for one week. If it happens again, the next round of penalties will last for two weeks (as just hit RT’s German channel, RT DE). Eventually, enough alleged violations of community …
Read More »YouTube blocks videos & hands strikes to RT’s English & German channels over alleged Covid-19 disinformation
On Friday, four videos on RT’s main English-language channel were made inaccessible for viewers for what YouTube said were violations of its policies on “medical misinformation” and “spam, deceptive practices and scams.” In its notification letter, the platform didn’t specify what exact content in those clips went against its regulations. …
Read More »YouTube REMOVES roundtable video featuring Florida Gov. DeSantis & anti-lockdown health experts, citing ‘terms of service’
The nearly two-hour video was first streamed on the channel of a Florida CBS affiliate in mid-March, in which the governor spoke at length at the Florida state capitol with four public health experts hailing from Stanford University, the University of Oxford and Harvard Medical School. While the roundtable remains …
Read More »YouTube removing ‘dislike’ would play into hands of progressive woke inquisition trying to radically transform American society
Although it certainly stung many fragile egos, one of the functions that made YouTube so attractive is that it trusted average Joes to play emperor in the coliseum of ideas. After watching a particular video, users are empowered to activate the ‘off with its head’ sign of ultimate rejection. Or …
Read More »YouTube blocks – and then unblocks – highly popular RT Arabic channel after US-based company files copyright infringement claims
Created in 2008, the RT Arabic YouTube channel has attracted a significant audience in the Arab world, gaining over 5.5 million subscribers and 2.8 billion views. Now, following a dispute with Business Casual Holdings, an American educational account, it is under threat. As per the website’s policy, a channel may …
Read More »‘Protecting Biden from further embarrassment’: YouTube to hide ‘dislikes’ on videos as users ruthlessly downvote president
At a glance, the number of thumbs down a YouTube video has received can tell a user to steer clear. The video could be boring or misleading, or the creator could say something so unpopular that thousands of viewers log in to downvote it to oblivion. Then again, mass downvoting …
Read More »‘Huge middle finger’: YouTube tells foreign creators they will soon be charged AMERICAN tax
The video platform, owned by Google, actually updated its terms of service to tax US creators shortly after the 2020 election, but the change went largely unnoticed in the uproar about censorship. On Tuesday, however, YouTube announced that the taxes will soon be taken out of earnings by creators outside …
Read More »YouTube bans several channels of Myanmar media citing ‘community guidelines’ – media
According to Reuters, the banned channels include MRTV, (Myanmar Radio and Television) as well as the military-owned Myawaddy Media, MWD Variety, and MWD Myanmar. “We have terminated a number of channels and removed several videos from YouTube in accordance with our community guidelines and applicable laws,” a spokesperson for the …
Read More »YouTube REMOVES video of Trump’s CPAC speech from RT channels – yet it’s ok with the SAME video posted by Western outlets
On Tuesday, RT and its German-language channel RT DE got a notice from YouTube that the video of Trump speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Florida on Sunday was being flagged for a “strike” under the platform’s rules on “supporting the 2020 US presidential election” announced in …
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