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YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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It turns out that it's much easier than anyone thought to end freedom of speech in the United States. If no one cares about the Constitution, then it's just paper. Trump sanctions the International Criminal Court and anyone who provides evidence to it, and now pro-Palestinian groups can't post videos of Israeli abuse on YouTube. The First Amendment is nowhere to be seen.

Where were you in the last 6 years? Ah, I see, people you didn't like were being censored so you didn't care.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #42

It turns out that it's much easier than anyone thought to end freedom of speech in the United States. If no one cares about the Constitution, then it's just paper. Trump sanctions the International Criminal Court and anyone who provides evidence to it, and now pro-Palestinian groups can't post videos of Israeli abuse on YouTube. The First Amendment is nowhere to be seen.

Where were you in the last 6 years? Ah, I see, people you didn't like were being censored so you didn't care.

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Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #45

Youtube takes down snuff. News at 11. It doesn't matter if the snuff is an Israeli shooting a Palestinian, or a jihadi beheading a cartoonist. It's all removed because YouTube doesn't accept snuff on its platform.

Technically, “snuff” is usually defined as at least being made for entertainment (I say “usually”, since commonly other requirements are added as well). But beheading videos and the like are meant to scare their enemies, not to entertain weirdos on the internet. So these are not “snuff” videos.

Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #9

It turns out that it's much easier than anyone thought to end freedom of speech in the United States. If no one cares about the Constitution, then it's just paper. Trump sanctions the International Criminal Court and anyone who provides evidence to it, and now pro-Palestinian groups can't post videos of Israeli abuse on YouTube. The First Amendment is nowhere to be seen.

The irony is that JD Vance lectured the Europeans about their lack of freedom of speech in Europe while invited in Germany.

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Re: YouTube erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a joke? They're all 'at risk' of deletion.

No, the vast majority of videos on YouTube are not at a particular risk of deletion. Specific topics are, but the average Linus tech tips video is not.

Amusingly, Linus Tech Tips has had many videos censored and removed by YouTube.
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