YouTube Rolls Out Massive New Wave of Corporate Censorship

Do you remember when the Trump administration said it was going to “look into” doing something about social media censorship?

I’ve spoken to other conservative commentators, & they all confirm the same thing.

Since January, YouTube has refused to show our videos in recommends & searches.

They want to stop the “spread” of our ideas.

This isn’t a conspiracy, YouTube openly admits this is their policy. pic.twitter.com/U8YvEGiZUV

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) June 5, 2019

YouTube is free to curate content for its views based on ideology, of course, but if that’s the case, they can no longer claim to be a platform.

They are a publisher, and should be held legally accountable as such.

— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) June 5, 2019

New York Times:

“YouTube announced plans on Wednesday to remove thousands of videos and channels that advocate for neo-Nazism, white supremacy and other bigoted ideologies in an attempt to clean up extremism and hate speech on its popular service.

The new policy will ban “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion,” the company said in a blog post. The prohibition will also cover videos denying that violent incidents, like the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, took place.

YouTube did not name any specific channels or videos that would be banned.

“It’s our responsibility to protect that, and prevent our platform from being used to incite hatred, harassment, discrimination and violence,” the company said in the blog post.

The decision by YouTube, which is owned by Google, is the latest action by a Silicon Valley company to stem the spread of hate speech and disinformation on its site. A month ago, Facebook evicted seven of its most controversial users, including Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist and founder of InfoWars. Twitter banned Mr. Jones last year. …”

The Occidental Dissent channel on YouTube was seemingly deleted simultaneously with the rollout of the new policy. I’m apparently at the top of the list:

“We’d like to inform you that due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines (https://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines) your YouTube account Hunter Wallace has been suspended.

After review we determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which state that hate speech is not acceptable on our site. “Hate speech” means content that promotes hatred or violence against members of a protected group (race or ethnic origin, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, and sexual orientation/gender identity).

Please be aware that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts. For more information about account terminations and how our Community Guidelines are enforced, please visit our Help Center.”

I’m a blogger.

I don’t even make YouTube videos.

There were only two videos on the Hunter Wallace account which were unedited livestreams of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. Apparently, it was necessary to purge the channel because of “repeated and severe violations” of the new Community Guidelines which prove that the mainstream media’s narrative of that event was completely false.

The truth is that I use YouTube solely to watch videos which are mainly historical documentaries, religion or philosophy or health and fitness related. 99% of the content that I watch and share on YouTube has nothing to do with White Nationalism or even with American politics.

Politically speaking, we’re now trapped in a hard place between 1.) progressives who are determined to force their “social justice” views on the public by abusing the market power of corporate monopolies to censor alternative perspectives and silence all dissent and 2.) the free market ideology of conservatives and lolbertarians which is content to turn a blind eye to this and reward it.

What have we gotten out of the Trump administration? Facebook, YouTube and Amazon got a massive corporate tax cut and record levels of legal immigration. We have been nearly wiped off the internet. I suppose we got Jerusalem and the end the Iran deal too.

Here’s the solution that I advocate:

1.) Register a new account on these social media giant platforms.

2.) Simply change what you talk about on your new account.

3.) Talk exclusively about the need to tax, regulate and trust bust the social media giants in Silicon Valley for they can be wiped out in the global marketplace in the 2020s by their Chinese competitors.

4.) Find and network with likeminded people to share this message.

Silicon Valley wants to change what we talk about on their platforms. If we change our behavior and talk about nothing on their platforms but the need to put an end to their wealth and power, you will be amazed at how fast they will change their tune on freedom of speech.

Note: This website has been banned from Stripe and PayPal and a bunch of other payment processors for similar reasons. It’s all part of the same coordinated effort by the Left to censor the internet by denying people on the enemies list access to social media accounts and banking service. It will have the effect of destroying the support of much of the Right for free-market capitalism.