www.newsweek.com/youtube-accused-censoring-macklemore-hinds-hall-1898269
YouTube accused of censoring Macklemore's "Hind's Hall": "YouTube didn't put age restrictions on songs of two different Israeli artists calling death on Palestinians and threatening Dua Lipa and Bella Hadid, but they put on an age restriction on this. Sounds right,"
Is anyone surprised at this stage that YouTube is like this? Their censorship has gotten waaay extreme lately
It's not really the extreme censoring that's the issue here, but the shamelessly selective censoring.
Very true
But shamelessly selective censorship is extreme
that's how censorship works. You silence dissenting views while propping up pro-status quo ones
Yup. Why they won't get banned. ...like TikTok. They seem to suppress at the request of governments - US and some middle east ones.
It's clear that money speaks, and Zionist lobbying has gotten out of hand. So many things are compromised. Politicians are easy to understand. Corporations, I feel, should be smarter at least.
The more this happens the more people need to be worried. If they can do such selective censoring, control and repression, it is only a matter of time this happens to other freedoms.
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The right has been complaining that they can't spread misinformation, like Ivermectin curing COVID. The two situations are not even remotely similar.
In a weird way...it is. Should the government be responsible for deciding the truth? Maybe a department truths and untruths?
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No. Things like the morality of a war are subjective and open to interpretation. Whether a medicine cures a disease is objectively true or false, and scientifically provable. It's the difference between "COVID isn't actually that bad, it's a flu" (allowed to stay up), and "if you mix bleach with water and drink it every day you'll live longer" (objectively false and harmful).
They don't censor right wing shlop because it serves capital
Yeah, you see misinformation can cause actual physical harm and even death.
How many people have suffered preventable illness resulting in severe disability or death because of antivax rhetoric?
How many people have died because they were sold lies about chemotherapy?
How many Asian Americans were assaulted and even murdered because of Trump shouting about the "China virus"?
So in these situations, it isn't a matter of censorship because I don't like your opinions, it's a matter public fucking safety.
The right is in charge my man, their whole ideology is basically rage on behalf of the machine. Pro police pro corporations.. C'mon man
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The difference is that the right is more than happy to help them conquer.
Bro the democrats are just as down with genocide (and Israel) as the right. They’re on the same payroll.
Both Democrats and Republicans are right wing
Yah it just discredits the point when they complain about shit that they made up. Would help the cause if we could all agree to keep our craziest nuts of the respective parties out of the limelight, the republicans have let there’s become president and foster hate and discontent for anyone who isn’t brainwashed to completion. Now he’s gonna throw the world’s biggest hissy fit and incite violence when he loses in November, maybe sooner if any of these court cases are allowed to proceed. Victim mentality has eradicated any credibility they had. And over on the left we are also stuck with an old man who is noones first choice but at least he’s not ranting about the whole world designed to pick on him and plugging stupid shoes, bible, nfts, etc.
They’re downvoting but I agree
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Your "lightbulb" moment is lazy and disingenuous.
The CEO of Google and YouTube are both Hindus. Hindus are weirdly very zionist even though most Israelis are racist towards them.
That's because "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Hindus despise Muslims more than anything or anyone else.
Nothing weird about it- Indians would love to genocide their Muslim population plus Pakistan and Bangladesh
Indians hate Muslims more than any other people on the planet
Yet they all flock to Muslim countries to work, they hate them yet don’t mind moving to their countries.
most israelis are racist. thatll happen when your religion says you alone are gods chosen people.
Cause uppercaste Indians think they are white.
This is a basic divide and conquer tactic that the British left behind.
I don't think most Hindus hate Muslims and vice versa. Like the extremist judaic Israelis (as opposed to people who consider themselves Jews but don't even believe in god, let alone Judaism) there are extremist Hindus in India fueled by the current hateful government. They blame all the problems on the Muslims and take no account of the history and how once upon a time religious differences in the region were of little issue.
I don't think the CEO's religion has little to do with their actions, rather the ridiculous lobbying and shady pressure that comes from zionist interest that have embedded their claws everywhere in the US (and elsewhere).
Well look at the CEO of YT lol pretty self explanatory he's an isrealie-sympathizer.
Youtube CEO, Instagram head, Meta CEO. All being run by zioninsts
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Because the quote is literally from a indisputable, actual Neo-Nazi (and a pedophile). I'm anti-zionist but fucking get a new quote.
EDIT: Downvote if you want but maybe fucking Google Kevin Alfred Strom.
Eh, it's a good quote and very true. Who cares where it comes from.
IG is definitely on some shit
I thought US doesn’t censor stuff
lets keep our opened eyes open :)
You’re a comedian! 😆
a kneeslapper for sure
Land of the free home of the dumb
They do a lot when they don’t agree with the subject.
No, that’s only what evil/non-free-market countries like China do /s
China is khamas!
The US government is barred from censoring stuff. So the solution is to weaken the government so powerful corporations that can censor stuff take over. You already see it with what Facebook did to the elections in the Philippines, and it will only get worse. Corporate censorship, corporate surveillance.
We lost this battle with Net Neutrality & Citizens United, and will continue to lose until we're like China but with a trademark. Fuck if I know we're already there but don't know it yet.
They also want to ban tik tok so they can control everything
Probably got restricted automatically as a result of a coordinated mass flagging attack.
They tend to be very well organized and coordinated. And they’re persistent.
How much control does Israel have over us?
As far as I can see, they have a huge influence on both sides of American democracy (Democrats and Republicans), as well as media, press, tech, banking, entertainment. So they have a huge control over pretty much everything that matters in terms of influencing people and good outcomes for Israel.
It's crazy how quickly the perception of this has changed, if you'd said something similar a few months ago you'd have been labelled a conspiracy theorist.....
What i learned about conspiracy theories is… where there is smoke there is fire. There is always a shred of truth to it.
Naw, this has been painfully obvious for decades / never a conspiracy theory. It's just "antisemitic" to say anything about it.
Google AIPAC
This is not Israel controlling USA. This is USA defending its middle east project and keeping control of the public.
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YouTube's algorithm is easily manipulated via mass reporting videos to flag the automated system to remove them. This happens endlessly to anyone who is critical of Russia or China also. Israel will be using their keyboard warriors and bots to report the video thousands of times. At this point YouTube really should be aware that this flaw is being exploited by authoritarian nations to censor content since this has been happening for years.
YouTube is infested with CIA and mossad agents.
Imaging you see the empire performing a genocide on Gaza, while still believing the empire is the angle against Russia and China.
Youtube puts age limit on "endless, any" videos criticizing Russia and China? That's bs and you know it.
Imagine being so delusional that you think Russia and China are the good guys. America, Russia and China are all dystopian nightmares that are ruining the world. Several channels exposing the crimes committed by Russia and China are routinely demonetised because of mass attacks. They've discussed it at length and given that I regularly encounter videos that are age restricted for no reason and rarely have any ads on some of these channels it's pretty fucking evident that they aren't lying. But go ahead and believe whatever bullshit you want.
You know Russia and China different states right? With very different governing philosophies/state structures/etc. right?
You also know that evil/good moral grandstanding is utterly ridiculous, right?
You also know that one thing can be not so good & the other thing can be awful yeah? The "endless Asiatic hordes coming for muh western civilization" is racist, lazy, and so played out it is honestly pathetic.
What are you even on about? He never said Russia and China are not different. Having different governing philosophies does not prevent them from being horrible in their own ways.
He said that all three of them are bad and you say moral grandstanding is ridiculous? When did he even say anything that relates to that?
And once again did he say one of them was better than the other? He just said all three are bad and use propaganda systems and you think that's racist? Literally playing the Israel card of "criticizing Israel is anti-Semitic."
What? YouTube controlled by zionists? Yeah I'm not surprised
One is a protected class. One, not so much.
Israel controls everyrhing the west does
Weird. Innit?
Bare weird bruvv
Can anyone access it on Spotify?
YouTube has rampant censoring. Your comments will be shadow banned if you go off script.
Yea any kind of sympathy I had for "Isreal." Went out the window in 1948. Since then they have done horrible things to justify their statehood.
Google has ties to the Israeli defense industry. It's a corrupt company that needs to be broken apart.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Yeah it’s obvious and would be comical if the circumstances weren’t so horrific.
youtube comments can outright threaten people with r@pe but if you call the person making the threats "disgusting", your comment gets deleted. doesnt surprise me
He's having an anti-Kanye moment. Where he becomes more and more coherent and relevant, they have to censor him more and more.
Well, seeing how Google is complicit in a genocide, I’m not surprised.
Who are the 2 isreali artists? I feel like a massive pop stars content would get screened before 2 random isreali dudes, that's the only reason I could think they missed it
Who are the 2 isreali artists? I feel like macklemore is wayyy more popular and there for gets screened first
The platform is owned by Google, after all... And we know what happened at Google recently.
Sounds about zionist to me.
YouTube is a cesspool of right ring propaganda. It’s incredibly distressing.
This is kinda dumb.
Can we agree that all 3 should probably have had age restrictions, and that minimum wage drones at YouTube are imperfect?
Aipac prolly runs YouTube too
Facebook, YouTube, instagram, all are spying agencies for Israel
I've noticed that they often recommend far right pro-Israel propaganda in Shorts. That's the complete opposite of the content I watch, so Google is clearly being paid a lot of money to push that shite on people.
It also seems to be the default for the site if you aren't signed in. Most of the recommended videos are right-wing.
Macklemore jumping on the bandwagon while Lowkey still remains unknown for all his music that's been out for fucking years.
I saw the video. There were brutal photos of injured and I think dead people. It wasn't removed, just a warning you have to click. Seems reasonable.
If it got removed, then I'd start calling it censorship.
They should remove “songs” calling for violence against Palestinians
Yeah, I agree with that. How is that related to what I said?
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But it isn't. The video content being graphic is not the same as bad language. You're making a bad comparison.
These are two different policies on YouTube. One on visual content and one on the lyrics of a song. Report the lyrics as hate speech and hopefully YouTube does the right thing.
It just seems like people here want a conspiracy where there isn't one. There are so many pro-palestinian videos, news reports, opinion pieces, debates on YouTube. Those are not being censored, which is good.
The fact is he put in graphic videos and images in his video. Artistically, I think it's a good choice and elevates the song and his message... But on YouTube you will get flagged for it and have an age restriction applied if you do.
It's really concerning to me that people aren't getting this.
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To your point regarding the content of the Pro-Israeli songs, neither do I. I haven't seen these videos (but don't deny they exist), if they show graphic content and it isn't being age restricted then that's a huge problem. I think here in the comments people were mainly addressing the content of the lyrics, and I'm iffy on that personally (happy to expand on why).
I think there's influence on both sides at play, especially here on Reddit. Lately I've seen so many bad faith or just poor arguments from both sides. I'm trying to keep a level head and sift through the nonsense.
AFAICT YouTube in particular has been a great resource to learn about the history, the current points of views, and some decent reporting on the conflict. I've relied on it heavily to get a better overall understanding of the conflict. Neither side seems over or under represented.
Anyways Kudos to you, I like it when these comments end up in a place of agreement. Cheers to you!
You are correct. He put a lyrics only video on his YouTube that has no age restriction. It's the graphic video that raised the flag. This sub is becoming Twitter. Also random tankies littering around.
It's just full of bad faith arguments and hysteria. YouTube has a large volume of pro-palestine content.
Damn so YT needs to govern Israeli music now? Maybe bc one song got much more Attention than the other but I guess it would hinder the oppression narrative.
Awww is somebody upset because the world sees how much of a monster your country is?
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