Safety, security, misinformation and hate speech are obvious cover for politically motivated censorship. For YouTube, colluding with legacy media and purging creators made for a very public suicide.
yes, the only reason I can look at myself in the mirror, is that I have never seen an ad on youtube. Otherwise I would feel guilty for the simple pleasures that are still there, like Mark Dice and Tyler Zed, and a lot podcasters like new culture forum etc.
Ten years ago the type of censorship that exists now was almost unimaginable. Having access to information and letting people decide for themselves was once the norm and considered the ethical thing to do. Now the paradigm is "protecting" people from non mainstream narratives. The upside to this is that more and more people distrust MSM and realize that MSM seeks to stiffle opinions that are outside the bounds of discourse defined by MSM.
Excellent points. Yes, maybe even 6 years ago it was not very common and would raise eyebrows. We are on an accelerating timeline to the dark ages. The safety-ism of the Quads has flooded the corporate environment and we all are worse off for it. Someone recently opined that its not MSM - the atomized alternatives are the mainstream now and the more people tune out the corporate propaganda the more they will crush (censor/ban) the new mainstream sources. In the end people want the truth. Lately they're starved for it.
Remember when news articles online had comment sections? This was hailed as a MASSIVE victory for democracy. There were tons of stories and praise for it. The People's Voice would be added to the stories and form a new consensus! The people and the journalists engaging with each other and learning from each other. The people acting as a watchdog, and engaging!
Then - it all disappeared. The newspapers took down the comment sections and never explained why, acted like they never existed. Because people tore the media apart by showing the effect mass immigration has on the economy and crime, and pointing to who the neocons and their allied donors and media are. The facts were relentless, so they must be silenced.
"In 2016 the Silicon Valley cretins tried to engineer a Hillary Clinton victory, and were shocked when the people didn’t follow their instructions. In the years since, the lies and propaganda from the Corporate media gets worse by the day and the people know it as reflected in polls. The Plandemic has only amplified this awareness exponentially."
I'm very much of the opinion that Hillary would have implemented Agenda 21. The "pandemic" was needed to get rid of the orange man and speed up the timeline so they could get back on track.
Another wonderful article - thank you! I too wonder about the future of Substack now that I'm seriously considering investing more time here. Puts a new interpretation on the quote from Field of Dreams - "If you build it, they will come." (the they being the censorship mafia as opposed to readership). And I've had many of a day dream about kids in basements on private servers hacking enemy sites as young underground resistance operatives. If there were only some in that digital space with the resources to nurture such, it would be a good thing - maybe, hopefully, it's already happening.
Gosh, even on Substack, and even incognito, I'm still looking over my shoulder writing such things.
I made a comment the other day in reference to resistance and the friend freaked out and reminded me that the walls have ears - he wasn't kidding. You'd think Winston Smith would be accustom to this!
might be not that they've gone corporate. bitchute puts warnings on videos now "Dangerous content". All this paternalistic BS from the tech nerdaratti is nauseating.
That IS the last great thing about YT. The music videos. Having friends over for beers to watch music videos, especially from the 60s-00s is good fun. Ad blocker essential.
That's not the worst of it, they tried to pass off a completely different band as the Stones a few years ago. And they sang the lyrics as per the text in the video linked.
Great Article! I think a big thing you didnt mention though was the Silkroad website court case and its precedence. The precedence was that any website must monitor the activities of the participants. People are selling drugs on your website, well then that's life in jail for you.
"the hegemonic power of corporations, corporate media narratives"
I'm sure being a private business is what motivates Susan Wojcicki, Mark Zuckenberg and Sergey Brin, and their Indian allies like Sundar Pichai, Parag Agrawal and the ranks filling up Microsoft headquarters today. And motivates the ones who really formed the Left's paradigm, like the NYT Sulzbergers, the WaPo Grahams and CNN/ex-NBC Jeff Zucker.
Talking about "corporate" - that horrible word! - is something the Left invented. The Marxists claim the media being privately owned is why they don't go along with full Marxism (as if the media don't help Antifa every day). The anti-war leftists like Glenn Greenwald have adopted the "corporate" as their accusation - supposedly the wars are all about helping their fellow business owners to sell weapons. (In that case, why not invade African or South American countries, instead of antagonizing people in the vulnerable Persian Gulf?)
show me the actions of politicians in either party that don't benefit corporations before their constituents. Marxism has nothing to do with that fact. The US is either an oligarchy or corporatocracy but hasn't been anything close to a constitutional republic in some time. Greenwald is not wrong. War in the 21st century is a racket designed to never end...ie 'war on terror'. Every major spending bill is written by corporations for corporations. Congress privatizes capital gains and socializes capital losses at the expense of the taxpayers. The sooner the people all realize this regardless of ideology, the sooner things might change.
Also, the censorship of alternative independent creators cost Google tens of billions from changing YT's search to show only Corporate network results, which people tuned out. ~$17 billion the first quarter after they did it, which proves these decisions/people weren't motivated by business.
Like Gillette and the Salvation Army and so many others. Gone woke, gone broke. The market will teach these control freaks a hard lesson. Unlike the banks, they are not to big to fail.
They are not big enough to be accepted by the cool kids who hang out at Davos. Like many during these trying times they have turned on their friends to curry favor with the rich and powerful. Neither side will like them now. Gillette may succeed, but the Salvation Army won't. The globalists hate religion and are only using the Woke churches as transitionary steps. Online church services will pave the way to the Metaverse.
It sure would be a pity for the "Corporate-State" mafia, to which Substack and its investors belong, if some dissidents organized a boisterous and successful movement to abolish their precious incorporation. This simple, overdue change would help every go-getter and clique of go-getters to do business as a sole proprietorship or a partnership. (The new way could be called Responsibility Capitalism.) Also on the bright side of things, such a movement would bother some folks who already are huffing and puffing fearfully about being attacked by the very system for which conservatives and libertarians have long played the role of helpful shill.
It sure would be a shame if everyone installed a YouTube adblocker and left 50 tabs running 4K videos all night when there computers aren't in use.
yes, the only reason I can look at myself in the mirror, is that I have never seen an ad on youtube. Otherwise I would feel guilty for the simple pleasures that are still there, like Mark Dice and Tyler Zed, and a lot podcasters like new culture forum etc.
They interrupt to see if u r still watching....
The t v watches you too
Ten years ago the type of censorship that exists now was almost unimaginable. Having access to information and letting people decide for themselves was once the norm and considered the ethical thing to do. Now the paradigm is "protecting" people from non mainstream narratives. The upside to this is that more and more people distrust MSM and realize that MSM seeks to stiffle opinions that are outside the bounds of discourse defined by MSM.
Excellent points. Yes, maybe even 6 years ago it was not very common and would raise eyebrows. We are on an accelerating timeline to the dark ages. The safety-ism of the Quads has flooded the corporate environment and we all are worse off for it. Someone recently opined that its not MSM - the atomized alternatives are the mainstream now and the more people tune out the corporate propaganda the more they will crush (censor/ban) the new mainstream sources. In the end people want the truth. Lately they're starved for it.
yes, I think they are losing for that reason. Soon most people will be banned
Remember when news articles online had comment sections? This was hailed as a MASSIVE victory for democracy. There were tons of stories and praise for it. The People's Voice would be added to the stories and form a new consensus! The people and the journalists engaging with each other and learning from each other. The people acting as a watchdog, and engaging!
Then - it all disappeared. The newspapers took down the comment sections and never explained why, acted like they never existed. Because people tore the media apart by showing the effect mass immigration has on the economy and crime, and pointing to who the neocons and their allied donors and media are. The facts were relentless, so they must be silenced.
"In 2016 the Silicon Valley cretins tried to engineer a Hillary Clinton victory, and were shocked when the people didn’t follow their instructions. In the years since, the lies and propaganda from the Corporate media gets worse by the day and the people know it as reflected in polls. The Plandemic has only amplified this awareness exponentially."
I'm very much of the opinion that Hillary would have implemented Agenda 21. The "pandemic" was needed to get rid of the orange man and speed up the timeline so they could get back on track.
Another wonderful article - thank you! I too wonder about the future of Substack now that I'm seriously considering investing more time here. Puts a new interpretation on the quote from Field of Dreams - "If you build it, they will come." (the they being the censorship mafia as opposed to readership). And I've had many of a day dream about kids in basements on private servers hacking enemy sites as young underground resistance operatives. If there were only some in that digital space with the resources to nurture such, it would be a good thing - maybe, hopefully, it's already happening.
Gosh, even on Substack, and even incognito, I'm still looking over my shoulder writing such things.
I made a comment the other day in reference to resistance and the friend freaked out and reminded me that the walls have ears - he wasn't kidding. You'd think Winston Smith would be accustom to this!
Great piece. I won't subscribe to YouTube TV because of this censorship.
I have material on utoob. It is my music, much of the Rule of Freedom suite
Obviously one can't be too bold on msm
But freedom is a concept that may still resonate
Until they disallow and ban any such talk or code
If utoob was honourable they'd post folks reading rfk Bible
I am in s f if folks want to do a people's read of the work in public, maybe we can post it ( on odysee?)
Heard rumble is censoring now too is it so?
might be not that they've gone corporate. bitchute puts warnings on videos now "Dangerous content". All this paternalistic BS from the tech nerdaratti is nauseating.
yes, I have to point my vpn to american servers to see most videos recommended to me on bitchute. Blocked in my country for hate speech.
That IS the last great thing about YT. The music videos. Having friends over for beers to watch music videos, especially from the 60s-00s is good fun. Ad blocker essential.
They've been coming for the music videos for years. Watch the lyrics here and compare to what is sung
https://youtu.be/O4irXQhgMqg?t=161
That's not the worst of it, they tried to pass off a completely different band as the Stones a few years ago. And they sang the lyrics as per the text in the video linked.
Great Article! I think a big thing you didnt mention though was the Silkroad website court case and its precedence. The precedence was that any website must monitor the activities of the participants. People are selling drugs on your website, well then that's life in jail for you.
EweTueb... a safe place where the sheeple bleat
"the hegemonic power of corporations, corporate media narratives"
I'm sure being a private business is what motivates Susan Wojcicki, Mark Zuckenberg and Sergey Brin, and their Indian allies like Sundar Pichai, Parag Agrawal and the ranks filling up Microsoft headquarters today. And motivates the ones who really formed the Left's paradigm, like the NYT Sulzbergers, the WaPo Grahams and CNN/ex-NBC Jeff Zucker.
Talking about "corporate" - that horrible word! - is something the Left invented. The Marxists claim the media being privately owned is why they don't go along with full Marxism (as if the media don't help Antifa every day). The anti-war leftists like Glenn Greenwald have adopted the "corporate" as their accusation - supposedly the wars are all about helping their fellow business owners to sell weapons. (In that case, why not invade African or South American countries, instead of antagonizing people in the vulnerable Persian Gulf?)
show me the actions of politicians in either party that don't benefit corporations before their constituents. Marxism has nothing to do with that fact. The US is either an oligarchy or corporatocracy but hasn't been anything close to a constitutional republic in some time. Greenwald is not wrong. War in the 21st century is a racket designed to never end...ie 'war on terror'. Every major spending bill is written by corporations for corporations. Congress privatizes capital gains and socializes capital losses at the expense of the taxpayers. The sooner the people all realize this regardless of ideology, the sooner things might change.
Also, the censorship of alternative independent creators cost Google tens of billions from changing YT's search to show only Corporate network results, which people tuned out. ~$17 billion the first quarter after they did it, which proves these decisions/people weren't motivated by business.
Like Gillette and the Salvation Army and so many others. Gone woke, gone broke. The market will teach these control freaks a hard lesson. Unlike the banks, they are not to big to fail.
They are not big enough to be accepted by the cool kids who hang out at Davos. Like many during these trying times they have turned on their friends to curry favor with the rich and powerful. Neither side will like them now. Gillette may succeed, but the Salvation Army won't. The globalists hate religion and are only using the Woke churches as transitionary steps. Online church services will pave the way to the Metaverse.
I agree.
It sure would be a pity for the "Corporate-State" mafia, to which Substack and its investors belong, if some dissidents organized a boisterous and successful movement to abolish their precious incorporation. This simple, overdue change would help every go-getter and clique of go-getters to do business as a sole proprietorship or a partnership. (The new way could be called Responsibility Capitalism.) Also on the bright side of things, such a movement would bother some folks who already are huffing and puffing fearfully about being attacked by the very system for which conservatives and libertarians have long played the role of helpful shill.
Goodcitizen, Re Substacks new writer in residence, did you discuss it already? I smell sharkskin.