Effective today, uploading new videos to YouTube which contain allegations that enough fraud took place in the 2020 General Election to change the final results for President and Vice President is verboten!
This move may or may not be related to a letter executives for the Big Tech video sharing platform received from four Capitol Hill Democrats dated 23 November 2020. Senators Robert Menendez, Amy Klobuchar, Mazie Hirono and Gary Peters dispatched the missive, ” … to express our deep concern regarding the proliferation of misinformation on your platform during and immediately following the 2020 elections and in light of the upcoming Georgia run-off elections. We urge you to immediately remove all election outcome misinformation and take aggressive steps to implement prohibitions, as other social media companies have done, regarding outcomes in future elections.” Silence! Get in line with the rest of the minions! That simple message would have saved the Senator’s taxpayer time, and paper.
Here is YouTube’s proud announcement of unabashed disrespect for everybody who may not wish to believe everything they hear, as pulled from the series of tweets that fluttered forth today from @YouTubeInsider:
“1/ Our goal this election was to connect people to authoritative info, limit harmful misinfo & remove violative content. Subsequently, authoritative news was widely watched & recommended, and since Sept, we removed 8K+ channels for violating our policies.
2/ Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline. Now that enough states certified their Presidential election results, we’ll remove any content published today (or anytime after) that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 U.S. Presidential election outcome.
3/ We’ll also update today our election results info panel, which already surfaced under 200k+ vids and was shown 4.5b+ times. It’ll note that U.S. Presidential election results are certified & link to the 2020 Electoral College Results page by the Office of the Federal Register.
4/ There’s always more to do. Striking the balance between openness & responsibility is one of our toughest challenges. We’re continuing to make improvements & will apply our learnings from this election, globally.”
Click here if interested in reading the official statement on YouTube’s blog site. It’s a bit fleshier yet leaves a more bitter aftertaste. Bring a mint.
For me, this part of YouTube’s boot stomp on freedom especially piqued a bit of curiousity:
“2/ Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline. Now that enough states certified their Presidential election results, we’ll remove any content published today (or anytime after) that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the 2020 U.S. Presidential election outcome.”
Huh, let’s see something . . . be right back. Yep. Entering, 2016 RUSSIAN ELECTION INTERFERENCE, into the YouTube search engine returned bodacious results. Below is a screenshot I took showing a few of the most recently posted videos:
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Some evidence of interference was indeed found so, some videos are to be expected. Think that’s the only thing they say about Russian interference in these postings made to YouTube well after the Russian Witch Hunt had been wrapped up, put to bed, thoroughly de-bunked? Yeah, me neither. Still others are up since being posted after the first, “Trump’s a Commie Lover!” accusations whinged forth. Ain’t that a kick in the double standard head . . . at least they are consistent.
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Your content matter could be next! People are certainly free to make their own video sharing platform choices, sorta. If anybody is interested in starting an account at Rumble, that might be a good way to go. I don’t know much about the service yet so cannot recommend, it’s just a suggestion for people who’ve grown weary of YouTube’s censoring ways. For folks with their own YouTube channels, it is important to know that you cannot migrate the videos from YouTube to Rumble. All videos must be uploaded to the Rumble platform. If you don’t have copies of your uploads to YouTube, I’d start making some.
Frankly, if Rumble did allow a straight migration that would be a bit worrisome . . . YouTube is a bad influence.