Re: Big Tech, Social media and the government
YouTube Becomes Latest to Censor Trump, Citing “Potential for Violence”
The purge continues. The Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube on Tuesday placed a temporary suspension on President Donald Trump’s account, preventing the president from uploading new content for a week. “After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies,” YouTube said in a statement Tuesday night. “It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a *minimum* of 7 days,” the company continued.
If a content creator gets three “strikes” within a 90-day period, his or her channel will be permanently banned from the platform. “Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump’s channel, as we’ve done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section,” YouTube added.
This comes amid the effort by various social-media companies to censor or ban the president on grounds that his words “incite violence,” a claim allegedly evidenced by the march on Congress last week, in which a crowd entered into the Capitol Building without authorization. Following those events, the social-media platforms Facebook, Instagram (which is owned by Facebook), and Twitter banned President Trump. This is a perilous moment for freedom of speech, and not only in the sphere of social media. The establishment has shown that they are willing to use whatever industry they control to silence political dissidents. Are you guilty of “right-wing hate speech?” The major social-media sites will ban you. The major telecom firms will take down your websites. Soon all the major banks will shut down your account, and even if you use a local credit union, Visa and Mastercard will blacklist you so you can’t use cards.
https://thenewamerican.com/youtube-b...-for-violence/
YouTube Becomes Latest to Censor Trump, Citing “Potential for Violence”
The purge continues. The Google-owned video-sharing platform YouTube on Tuesday placed a temporary suspension on President Donald Trump’s account, preventing the president from uploading new content for a week. “After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies,” YouTube said in a statement Tuesday night. “It now has its 1st strike & is temporarily prevented from uploading new content for a *minimum* of 7 days,” the company continued.
If a content creator gets three “strikes” within a 90-day period, his or her channel will be permanently banned from the platform. “Given the ongoing concerns about violence, we will also be indefinitely disabling comments on President Trump’s channel, as we’ve done to other channels where there are safety concerns found in the comments section,” YouTube added.
This comes amid the effort by various social-media companies to censor or ban the president on grounds that his words “incite violence,” a claim allegedly evidenced by the march on Congress last week, in which a crowd entered into the Capitol Building without authorization. Following those events, the social-media platforms Facebook, Instagram (which is owned by Facebook), and Twitter banned President Trump. This is a perilous moment for freedom of speech, and not only in the sphere of social media. The establishment has shown that they are willing to use whatever industry they control to silence political dissidents. Are you guilty of “right-wing hate speech?” The major social-media sites will ban you. The major telecom firms will take down your websites. Soon all the major banks will shut down your account, and even if you use a local credit union, Visa and Mastercard will blacklist you so you can’t use cards.
https://thenewamerican.com/youtube-b...-for-violence/
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