Here we go. In the past week, many of my videos have been removed from YouTube. YouTube is purging videos en masse under the guise of “hate speech” or “controversial religious or supremacist content.” They claim it’s to counter terrorism, when, in fact, it’s to silence those who dissent.
Who watches the watchman?
All of Islam is “supremacist.” So following that policy would require every video exhorting and preaching for Islam should be banned.
Look at the notification I received from YouTube:
“YouTube Creates ‘Limbo’ for Controversial Videos,” by Anita Carey, Church Militant, August 3, 2017 (thanks to Jihad Watch):
SAN BRUNO, Calif. (ChurchMilitant.com) – YouTube and other internet technology companies are rolling out new procedures to stop “controversial religious content” from publishing on its site.
Announced on their blog Tuesday, YouTube has created a “limited state” where videos can be placed that will prevent them from getting attention. Videos placed there will be ones that are not illegal but have been flagged by users as potentially containing hate speech.
YouTube then reviews the videos, and if they are found to contain “controversial religious or supremacist content,” they will be placed behind an interstitial, where it won’t be recommended or monetized and will not have comments, likes or suggested videos.
Last month, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism to work together to “employ and leverage technology” to “disrupt terrorists’ ability to use the internet in furthering their causes.” The goals of this initiative are to include other companies in the coalition and become a resource for other companies by providing training in best practices.
This is evidenced by YouTube’s commitment to apply Jigsaw’s Redirect Method to searches — created by a think tank owned by Google and already being employed for Google searches. YouTube notes when sensitive keywords are used in a search, “they will be redirected towards a playlist of curated YouTube videos that directly confront and debunk violent extremist messages.”
Church Militant spoke with Robert Spencer, a well-known expert on Islam who has led seminars with the FBI and armed forces, appearing on numerous news programs about the effectiveness of the redirect method. He told us, “For many years, whenever one Googled ‘jihad,’ Jihad Watch was the first result. This was back in the days when Google’s results were based on the relevance of the subject matter to the search and the popularity of the site. But now, if you search for ‘jihad,’ Google will give you a whole page full of Islamic apologetics, and Jihad Watch doesn’t appear on the front page at all.”
He reported that his site, JihadWatch.org, once had tens of thousands of referrals from Facebook and Twitter that have now trickled down to only a couple hundred and dropping. He explains that it is not because his readership has plummeted, saying, “No, quite the contrary. It is because Google is now fully committed to not allowing people to search the internet but to controlling what they find when they do,” adding, “Incidentally, when one googles ‘Robert Spencer’ now, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hit piece on me comes up before my own website bio.”
YouTube claims to be working with several groups including the No Hate Speech Movement and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to identify content that is “being used to radicalize and recruit extremists.”
YouTube is also planning to use “cutting-edge machine learning technology” that they boast is “faster and more effective.” They claim, “Over 75 percent of the videos we’ve removed for violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag.”
They also claim the tools “have proven more accurate than humans at flagging videos that need to be removed.” That claim is hotly debated by many, especially Michelle Malkin, who complained YouTube banned her video First, They Came, but not the Imams’ radicalizing videos calling for killing innocent people — videos such as Imam Ammar Shahin’s “Annihilate the Jews” sermon, which is is still up on the site….
Church Militant asked Spencer if there are any other options for promoting his site, and he replied that there aren’t, saying, “The only recourse we have is to call attention to this until the backlash against these social media giants grows so large that their power is broken.”
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To counter terrorism. Ha, same reason for denying a permit to build a synagogue in Oz. What a coinkydoink.
If synagogues are dangerous in one part of AUS, what are the chances they’ll be deemed dangerous in other parts of AUS? AUS is really sliding down the muslum slippery slope.
“…it’s to counter terrorism” as if Pamela Geller caused ever any terrorist attack! I wonder when YouTube will “discover” and start purging pieces from my music channel as well (because, you know, Mohammedans hate music and all musical instruments but drums) and I can be found accountable for causing their “feelings” to get hurt with my music…
And don’t, whatever you do, post a picture of your pet dog. Mozlems hate all dogs, which is surprising really, especially when you see some of their women
JUST CHRISTIAN AND WESTERN FREEDOM AND LIBERTARIAN VIEWS AND OPINIONS .
Did you know Like facebook , twitter, youtube even Google has joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris
As per your own brilliant laws, it is hate speech to target any religion, or any ethnic group. Therefore, criticism of islam and muslims is deemed unacceptable in accordance with your own laws, that you defend and uphold. Why the bemoaning now?
And don’t give the “islam is not a religion” crap. What are you, 6 year olds?
YOUR LAWS AND YOUR CONSTITUTION SEE ISLAM AS A RELIGION!
If they did not see islam as a religion and then if they removed any criticism of islam, only then you could make the “not a religion” argument. Also, if it was not necessary to give equal protection to all groups, including muslims, according to your own laws, and if then they were going out of their way to protect muslims, only then you could condemn them.
Seriously, grow a brain. Or better yet, embrace islam.
Islam will conquer the west, inshalllah. And allah knows best.
Muslim fascists like you hate America.
Would it be more correct to call them the ultimate in statists? Also Islam is a white supremacy religion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZxH4QYLRQY
Christians are criticised all the time, but we don’t kill critics. Therein lies the difference. Muslims make hateful speech about us constantly and threats.We are not yet under Sharia and we will not bow to or embrace Islam. Thanks for the offer, but no thanks. I can’t think of a more horrific future than under seventh century Islam.
If you Muslims love Islam so much why are they here and not in a muslim country? There are 52 to choose from . Lots of sharia there !
Or has it to do with free welfare, education, housing I suppose over here? Because we have been more successful , Muslims from poor muslim lands get a better life?
If you want Islam here too,then where will you flee for a better life?
islam will destroy itself as it has already started, more muslims kill other muslims than the rest of the world combined. As the wealth of western europe falls into islamic control, there will be major wars for dominance, which will result in more muslims dying. Like muslims not obeying the laws of the nations they invade, shari’a will not be obeyed, but destroyed. .
But by the time islum destroys itself, there might not be any other religions or belief systems left (incl. atheism).
Muhammad, are you concerned you take the reviled name of a child rapist, murderer, slaver, thief, liar, and genocidal inbred half wit who IF he existed which is in doubt, deserved to be hung over a fire ?
Everything you people eat, fly in, drive, speak into, are pictured by etc was invented and developed by us, the Judaeo Christian people of the world, and I have more bad news for you, if you think Islam is going to be protected in some way by it’s false status of “religion”, you better start to worry, because too many people are pledged to utterly destroy every trace of it, and as many followers as possible because of the Fascist political Tyranny with no right to exist it really is.
You think we are afraid of you, one day all of you will find out while you terrorist child rapists and war mongers may have sown a wind, you’ll reap a whirlwind.
The only thing keeping so many from your throats at present are our laws and government agency’s, but one day….
Um, “hate speech” as you call it, is protected under that thing you so despise, called the 1st Amendment. U.S. citizens are allowed to use “hate speech” all they want, as long as it doesn’t actively call for the killing of someone. Which is not the case with your fellow travelers in dirty night shirts. They call for the deaths of Jews and Christians constantly but, they are given a free pass? And FU*K your goat fu*king Allah!
Indeed. Allah does know best. You Mohammedans are murdering each other at prodigious rate.
I’m a little fuzzy on the Canadian constitution. You know the part where it says it’s ok to mutilate a girl’s vulva? Commit honour murderings? Murder Jews? Murder Christians? Enslave men? Rape women and girls? That mediocre, uninspiring document (implemented by the first Trudeau) actually bans that sort of thing.
Inshallah dude.
Your “religion” wants more privileges than Jews and Christians. The more privileges we give you, the more you want. If you are a “protected class” — and yet it is all right to commit more murder and destruction than most other criminals, and to ravage and mutilate women in the name of your allah, and threaten freedom-loving people — let’s also turn loose all criminals who invade homes, harm residents, steal everything they have, and mug and rape anyone who comes down the street. Only those authorities with perverse minds will permit you to do such things! Your allah knows best, like the devil knows best! The devil is a liar and the father of lies!
Google And YouTube Ban Prof Who Refused To Use Gender-Neutral Pronouns
A professor in Canada who refuses to use gender-neutral pronouns and
criticizes social justice issues was banned from using his Google and
YouTube accounts Tuesday, regaining access hours later with no detailed
explanation provided.
Professor Jordan B. Peterson of the University of Toronto disputed
Google and YouTube’s decision to lock him out of his accounts, according
to correspondence obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation.
“Please tell me what principle I have violated,” said Peterson in his
email to Google upon discovering that he was locked out of his account.
“I have not violated any terms that I am aware of and have not misused
my account.”
The psychology professor has over 350,000 subscribers on his YouTube channel, which he uses as a platform to post his lectures, interviews, and Q&As.
“We understand you’ve recently been unable to access your Google
account, and we appreciate you contacting us,” said Google in a
response. “After review, your account is not eligible to be reinstated
due to a violation of our Terms of Service.”
But Google did not provide any details regarding which rule the professor violated.
When emailed at his Google address, Google returns an “Address not found” error message.
“I’ve had that account for the last, say, 15 years,” said Peterson to
TheDCNF. “All of my correspondence is in that account. It’s hundreds of
thousands of emails from people all over the world.”
The professor said he initially thought it was just a mistake.
“But the fact that they reviewed it and then decided that my account
is not eligible to be reinstated indicates to me either that this is
quite a curious mistake or that there’s something that’s political going
on that is associated with censorship.”
Peterson reiterated that he had not violated the terms of service,
stating that he had only recently posted a video detailing his plans for
the future. The professor said that he could not
“This is just another example of these big companies that either
[kowtow] to pressure…or deciding on their own accord who gets to
communicate and who doesn’t,” he told TheDCNF. (RELATED: Canadians Could Face Hate Crimes Over Using The Wrong Gender Pronouns)
Peterson’s YouTube videos criticizing social justice regularly obtain
tens or hundreds of thousands of views. The professor came under
scrutiny in 2016 after criticizing a bill which could potentially
criminalize using the wrong gender pronoun to identify someone. That
bill is now law.
(UPDATE: Peterson reported
that he regained access to his Google and YouTube accounts shortly
after the publication of this piece, but the company still has not
provided the professor with specific reasoning for his ban.)
He needs to get an email service in Switzerland, a high privacy jurisdiction.
Its deliberate attempt to remove truth about Islam.
And why don’t conservatives flag Left/Pro-islam
videos too ?
Did you know Like facebook , twitter, youtube even Google has joined Islamofascist gang http://tinyurl.com/lgp28rs
To censor conservative and Anti-jihadi news to push the islamisation agenda of the Left/Liberal/jihadis funded by saudi/qataris
What would happen if the f’ing muslums were to buy up ISP’s? They could eliminate free speech on the internet all over the world.
Moslems ***ARE*** buying up ISPs!!
From Time Warner to AT&T to Verizon … the moslems’ shares are growing
I should’ve figured. My G-d, it’ll be the end of free speech and the muslums won’t have had to fire a shot in anger.
>… why don’t conservatives flag Left/Pro-islam videos too ?
I am a Libertarian, the classical type, not exactly fit the mold of ‘conservatives’ but I do share a lot of common sentiments with some of them
To answer your question — we are in a conundrum
We do not like the way the leftists / islamofascists behave – by shutting down, shouting out opponents’ point of view — we still believe in free speech, even to the point of letting the enemies to spout off their racist antisemitic views
If we are to do what they are doing then we will be like them — and the world we live in, the civilization that we get to enjoy, will wither
Furthermore, do you seriously think leftist media, including youtube, will honor our requests to ban the leftists’ propaganda piece?
You think they check whether you are “left/liberal/conservative” when you flag a video and report them ? Of course not.
you flag , they check and decide to remove it or not. you do your part first.
That’s how the videos get removed. If the videos you believe shud be removed are not ..then you have proof its discrimatory practice and they can be sued.
Do you know a good lawyer ? or just submit proof in a free blog like wordpres.com or blogspot.com
Rebel Media is working on an alternative!!! Support their efforts if you can! If they can grow large enough they will be able to support others content also! Ask MILO to add this service to his new self publishing endeavor! Steemit may have vid capability? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnlPYpmhDs
How many islamic proselytizing “muslims re the best of people” and calls from the qur’an to murder all others, will be removed from the lying hypocrites of u tube and other sites? The fact that most of the social media have sold out to islam is every reason to abandon the old sites and go on to others that do not censor.
There’s no alternative to youtube, none at all. The disk space to host hundreds of thousands of videos, even compressed, is gigantic.
Vimeo?
Has potential.
Good point. Someone should tell Ezra Levant.
Rebel media is still getting off the ground.
I have the greatest respect for those who speak their conscience, avoid “political correctness” and are willing to say it as it is. Pamela Gellar and Robert Spencer are those kind of people. The events referred to in this article represent the abyss the free world is falling into when one realistically recognizes that the conduct of these social networks is now moving in the same direction as the main players in the media. Instead of allowing news to be broadcast as it is, they are slanting it to reflect their own views, which often are patently directed against those with whom they do not agree. This is a monumental agenda which will result in severe consequence to everything the free world holds dear. I do not support words of violence, such as was recently spoken by the Imam in L.A. that advocated an Islamist uprising against Israel based on some wrong notion that the Israel authorities were interfering with prayer at the Golden Mosque; which although apologized for, was only done as a result of what obviously amounted to pressure, and was not done with any sense of understanding that what was preached was actually heinous. We are allowing ourselves to be moved in the wrong direction. Reality is what it is. We should never fail to recognize that. The media and the social networks have turned their backs on reality, and the resulting danger is becoming more apparent. Sure, there are ways that we can save one another from the crazy beliefs that so wrongly impact on us and the rest of the world, but that cannot happen unless we sit down, analyze the problems, reflect upon what is necessary to solve those problems and accept a result that will change the hate to good neighborliness among people. Until we do that times will worsen.
Time to move to minds.com they are a pro free speech alternative to draconian censorship
All those in the West blocking peoples access to depictions of the unvarnished truth about the war being ruthlessly waged upon our families, children and civilisation will have the blood of slain innocents on their hands for this act of unmitigated treason, and I promise, we will not forget who you all are.
Shame on Google. I expected this in the era of Obama, not Trump… maybe censorship has been a long time coming from these faux progressives.
We can only hope
Rebel Media is working at it!!! Their building an alternative video system for themselves, BUT if you can make it large enough, would be able to put others content on it. Support them if you can. Their a good alt media site. There is also Steemit, but I don’t think they have vid capability yet. This is going to be a bumpy ride. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnlPYpmhDs
Rebel Media is putting their own media delivery system together and I hope all who can support it will, as if it is big enough will have the ability to support others as well. Their a good alt media site. Maybe MILO will do same as he started his own publishing site. Look for alternatives to start up!!! Steemit may or may not have vid capability. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPnlPYpmhDs
Already sent them money to start up.
Canadians, it is time to step up
Great to hear! Now if it can become big enough to support others content will be the next step. There are other providers out there, but from what I understand their policies are worse than YouTube. There are people working on building social media outlets that work on block chain technology, but that way may not be as fluid to work with as seeking out content from a diverse perspective may be hard. If you see why others are coming to wrong conclusions, then discourse can begin.
Yeah & Trump sells weaponry to Saudi Arabia & Qatar.
Stop the Saudi Arabia/ Qatar weapons-deal.
& topics like Facebook-censorship doesn’t interest Trump. That’s why we need a credible leader instead of him.
Censorship causes a divided society. What about Africans, some castrated enslaved in Saudi Arabia & in other Islamic countries, what about those whose ambition & passion it is to free those Africans & free atheists & stop Jizya-extortion & clitodirectomy. These people get ignored & directly & indirectly discriminated by politicians, governments, social media giants like Facebook. & governments support Neo-Nazi Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook.
More censorship = more “Islamophobia”.
#BoycottIslam #Shariafreeworld
#Ban Islam, save lives worldwide & free the African slaves from Saudi Arabia to Mauritania, the Biafra-leader, the Leavenworth 10, Israeli soldier Azaria, Salim Masih & so on.
Trump, Facebook is way too Islamic to ignore it, like the Nazis have been way too Islamic to ignore the fact.
Censorship is divisive, truth decisive in creating a united, informed global society.
Censorship hiding Islamic history, news & fundaments is dividing & an expression of worldwide tyranny.
The right to get informed about history, news & facts is decisive in progress of global society, of civilization.
Time for now. Now has a history.
Enough of the crawling Trump is forcing us to.
& I’ve read he wants to sell fighter-jets to the new Islamic tyranny of Nigeria.
Free the Biafra-leader!
Do you understand the globalists are on-board w/the f’ing muslums?
Pamela, regarding your “age-restricted” videos, welcome to what Prager U has been facing for more than one year.
Conservatives should build automation to identify and then report every jihadi video on YouTube. Overwhelm YouTube with complaints about jihadi videos. Make YouTube take down jihadi videos.
I wonder how the f’ing muslums got to these organisations? It’s the next best thing to government sponsored censorship or the elimination of free speech in its entirety.
Pamela,
I’m sure you are aware that Rebel Media is creating it’s own app. I will contribute what I can if you create your own or join with Rebel M.
The NBT network has also faced immense censorship and targeting by Youtube. We actually fought back and had a few videos reinstated after they were taken down to appease Muslims. The line between ‘hate speech’ and free speech is very fine these days, almost indistinguishable. I talked about this in great detail on my Q and A article on my website. If anyone is interested in what is really happening, just visit: http://www.jksheindlin.com
So, YouTube, Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Freedom of thought and speech seems not to exist with YouTube any longer. You really are pathetice
“They claim it’s to counter terrorism”.
In fact it is to suppress counter-terrorism.
Well, look who is being controversial and supremacist? This is so FUNNY…….
Don’t expect congress to protect our free speech for most of them are in bed with the globalists and Islam.
I have been following this increasing suppression of free speech with growing alarm for some time now. Especially these movements to boycott advertisers which has led to this. However, they many discover that there are far more of us than they ever imagined. We may be in the end may be more powerful than the left when we discover how many of us are excluded from the conversation. Recently I attended a rally in my local community to hear guest speakers on the issues of our times, such speaker being from what is called the Alt Right. The original venue got canceled due to threats from thugs such as ANTIFA, and a wealthy sponsor donated a huge auditorium for the occasion. Then several hundred people showed up to an event we thought might have only filled a small room. We are minions, and we are soon about to discover our power thanks to these maneuvers by Google and Facebook.
What a shame. Less of Pammie shrieking on YT? I’m weeping for her. ?
Yes as is usual w/atheist leftards their operating meme is: “freedom for me but not for thee.” That is, unless you’re a f’ing muslum.
“FAHRENHEIT 451″…Ray warned us, as did George Orwell, and a few others! Intolerance of dissenting opinions is the first sign of Totalitarian Regime! “We the People” NEED to find another outlet…Something like, “FOR YOUR EYES ONLY” from the T.V. Series, “DARK ANGEL”….A computer savvy & IMMENSELY rich young interpranure was making a stand against a TOTALITARIAN STATE in America…His was a combination of WIKILEAKS & youtube; but had such strong encryption, that the “system” could STOP his 5 min. video posts! He “outed” quite a few BAD DUDES & WOMEN, (some of whom went to prison, and some to death penalty)! THAT’S what we NEED to pray for!
“FOR YOUR EYES ONLY!”
I believe that MIGHT have been one of Jessica Alba’s first shows…she played the part of a genetically manipulated young woman, who was at WAR with MANTICORE, (the Military experimental Program of crossing humans with certain DnA from particular animals! Her particular DnA was from a cat)….NOW….Do you believe that could be done?
If not, then you’re WAY, WAY, “behind the 8 ball”….It’s ALREADY BEEN DONE, and will, sooner or later, be visiting your neighborhood! We’ve TRULY ENTERED into a DARK, DARK, era of History that will get DARKER & MORE dangerous as we traverse the terrain of this new and confusing era! BUT!
The truly “GOOD NEWS” is that God is allowing these things to come to pass, to bring people to a more REALISTIC understanding of our REALITY! SEEK GOD with ALL of your heart, soul & mind & strength, and yield to His Spirit’s guidance, and you WILL be “set free”!!!
It is time for Pamela Geller to sue You Tube for slander and damages. Billions in damages. It is also time for all of us to organize and begin both a boycott and political action to use our Republican majority to enact free speech safe guards. Please undertake this, at a minimum, Pamela and we will support you massively.
So much hate from the left.. Progressive liberals only want to hear the sound of their own drums.