YouTube shadowbans video titled “The CIA is a Terrorist Organization”

The shadow ban isn’t even the scariest part of the thread! The Department of Homeland Security confronted him about a video about police brutality:

> A few months ago I uploaded a video about police brutality. It showed explicit acts of violence by the police, and it was understandably age-gated. The video was appropriate only for older audiences, but did not break any of YouTube's terms and conditions.

> That video earned me a visit from the DHS, who asked me about "Anti-American sentiment" in my videos. That was the first time I realized, wow, I guess people really are monitoring what we say and are willing to try to intimidate us, even if what we say is objectively true.

It’s “anti-American” to say that the people ostensibly enforcing our laws should not commit violence against us.

I have no views on the video, I didn’t watch it, but tech companies censoring and pushing back against free speech troubles me.

Individuals and companies have the right to do what they want with their own property, and I don’t have any great ideas on how to solve this dilemma. One solution would be to have many platforms but we live in a winner take all world and platforms like YT get more powerful because of network effects.

This premise/statement is misinformation in the west, and true information in Iran.

YouTube has signed up for determining what is true in the west, and it will definitely upset some people, so shadow banning is the best happy medium.

(I personally think most people should start shadow banned and then an algorithm should slowly start opening the sphere of influence/votes to see if information is spreading more widely).

Absolutely ridiculous - do Americans even know why the country was even founded anymore?

I hope YouTube and other platforms for user content will be replaced by something decentralised eventually. I wonder if a decentralised media platform over something like bittorrent or IPFS is or will ever be technologically feasible.