Former US Congressman Ron Paul has joined a growing list of independent political journalists and commentators who’re being economically punished by YouTube despite producing videos that routinely receive hundreds of thousands of views.
In a tweet published Saturday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted a screenshot of Paul’s “Liberty Report” page showing that his videos had been labeled “not suitable” for all advertisers by YouTube’s content arbiters.
YouTube economically censors former presidential candidate @RonPaul for criticizing U.S. foreign policy on Afghanistan and WikiLeaks. pic.twitter.com/AnC88rZkhO
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Assange claims that Paul was being punished for speaking out about President Donald Trump’s decision to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan, after Paul published a video on the subject earlier this week.
The notion that YouTube would want to economically punish a former US Congressman for sharing his views on US foreign policy – a topic that he is unequivocally qualified to speak about – is absurd. Furthermore, the “review requested” marking on one of Paul’s videos reveals that they were initially flagged by users before YouTube’s moderators confirmed that the videos were unsuitable for a broad audience.
Other political commentators who’ve been censored by YouTube include Paul Joseph Watson and Tim Black – both ostensibly for sharing political views that differ from the mainstream neo-liberal ideology favored by the Silicon Valley elite.
Last week, Google – another Alphabet Inc. company – briefly banned Salil Mehta, an adjunct professor at Columbia and Georgetown who teaches probability and data science, from using its service, freezing his accounts without providing an explanation. He was later allowed to return to the service.
Conservative journalist Lauren Southern spoke out about YouTube’s drive to stifle politically divergent journalists and commentators during an interview with the Daily Caller.
“I think it would be insane to suggest there’s not an active effort to censor conservative and independent views,” said Southern.
“Considering most of Silicon Valley participate in the censorship of alleged ‘hate speech,’ diversity hiring and inclusivity committees. Their entire model is based around a far left outline. There’s no merit hiring, there’s no support of free speech and there certainly is not an equal representation of political views at these companies.”
Of course, Google isn’t the only Silicon Valley company that’s enamored with censorship. Facebook has promised to eradicate “fake news,” which, by its definition, includes political content that falls outside of the mainstream.
Still, economically punishing a former US Congressman and medical doctor is a new low in Silicon Valley’s campaign to stamp out dissent.
Stop with the nonsense. Google has rights. Freedom and all that. Somebody was just scolding me about this this morning. Right here
Another way to look at it is that they are getting scared. Underhanded tactics like this aren’t necessary if you are winning the war of ideas. They can clearly see they are not. They may well control these platforms, but they still know they are losing. If your views have merit, they can stand on their own and withstand honest debate. They damn sure aren’t doing this from a position of strength. Hell, they themselves are losing money on this.
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Maybe someone could talk admin into listing all media, video, content, pay systems and search engines on the side bar.
Let’s get these fuckers.
“Hell, they themselves are losing money on this.”
Sort of conflicts with that ‘free market’ fantasy, doesn’t it? That they apparently value social control more than money?
When you have a theory that not only fails to predict a behavior, but in fact predicts that the exact opposite of what actually happened would occur, it might be a good time to re-evaluate some of your positions.
I agree its desperation.Has anyone been following John MCAFEE?He vows to take down Google and he had an attempt on his life.
Until Youtube is declared a monopoly they do in fact have the right to decide what fits their terms of service and what doesn’t. Bitch and complain all you want but you cannot ignore that reality.
Google’s services are free because YOU and YOUR data are their product and you give it over to them willingly every time you use their service. Would forcing them to host/accurately return search content from all comers MAGA? Forcing these private companies to bend to your will would do nothing more that put you in exactly the same position you were in 6-12 months ago and you still had plenty to bitch about then right? So what has changed now?……..you got something extra to bitch about is about all.
I agree that what they are currently doing is politically motivated but there is no law against it right now. If you believe their practices are monopolistic then get busy doing something about it or STFU and find a way to deal with it. You’re preaching to the choir here on TBP.
Ron Paul just needs to try harder. He’s clearly just being outsmarted by a much higher quality tech culture that has a great work ethic and solid family values as the foundation of their success.
I heard from a hearing aid that Ron Paul was theoretically putting subliminal alt-i-know-right?-neo-morpheusian messages in his videos and was spotted by an undisclosed source viewing The Monthly Shower on Usenet.
This is over the top; somebody find a technical way around the ZOG to create a site TPTB don’t own; Ron and thousands of big names will support that and Conservatives will donate the money needed, just ask and ye shall receive!
Ron Paul is another anti-semite who is getting too much attention. More proof that the zionazis are running scared. Keep up the pressure, death to all neocons!!
Who is next?
Bill Burrs podcasts
El Coyote.
If you haven’t read Ann Barnhardt’s recent experience with shutdown attempts… have a gander over here.
2 ways around this.
yes,these are private companies who can choose what kind of content that they will host or display.
however,if it walks like a duck,quacks like a duck,…it probably is a duck.it is quite obvious that these companies are colluding on this stuff that they are pulling,which is illegal.sessions needs to announce an investigation into collusion in the tech industry.
additionally,the republican leadership needs to let it leak out that the tech industry is about to take it on the chin when they get around to tax reform.
Content providers should move to DailyMotion already. It is basically the same thing.
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
Ron Paul has repeatedly tried to keep a distance between himself and his supporters. Last week he was putting the entire Alt Right in with Antifa, so if he’s demonetized, oh well.
I have been dwelling on Llpoh’s POV all week while I work, even in my dreams. I have always held that the most important right is the one to say “No”, but he is correct about the primacy of private property. If all of these private property owners like YouTube and Google are collectively telling everyone to get off their lawn, they are welcome to what will eventually become their increasingly empty echo chambers.
There’s more than one way to skin a dead cat.
You would be wrong on this one, Hardscrabble, and Llpoh is full of shit on this one, too. Stubborn principle without the mental flexibility required for survival is no virtue. Defending this kind of bullshit is nuts. Google is so intertwined with the NSA it is a fucking government agency. Time to break them up. Even if it weren’t, it will be time to break them up. Too much power concentrated in too few hands. You two best rethink this. Big Tech can no longer be allowed to police itself
https://www.ft.com/content/ce1d6a00-89a0-11e7-bf50-e1c239b45787?segmentId=7ac5b61e-8d73-f906-98c6-68ac3b9ee271
Anyone can establish a service competing with YouTube and Google.
There are actually several out there already.
The problem is getting people to use them instead of using YouTube and Google.
It’s a voluntary thing on the part of the users of them to use the alternatives or to use YouTube and Google.
Only a relative handful use the alternatives, and I suspect most of the people that do also use YouTube and Google as well.
— “The problem is getting people to use them instead of using YouTube and Google.”
The bigger problem once you do start getting people to use them is handling the traffic costs. Google and Youtube can operate these services at losses in ways others can’t.
This is why the distributed networks that don’t rely on central hosting show promise, but require people to open their computers up to sharing similar to torrents and that’s a hard sell. But it at least means one person/company isn’t bearing the full load when it does work.