Posted on 02/02/2022 2:45:42 PM PST by yesthatjallen
YouTube has a brand new censorship tactic that appears to be affecting small creators – and one that, on the face of it, makes no sense.
Several livestreams posted on Google’s platform last weekend by truckers protesting in Canada have had their audience limited. The reason given to viewers trying to access the videos? They were too popular.
“Video unavailable: This video is popular! Due to limited creator history, we’re limiting the number of viewers,” YouTube’s message reads, and then advises visitors to subscribe to the channel “to help this creator reach a broader audience.”
No word, though, on whether that would make the videos available to that broader audience, or if YouTube would come up with yet more “censorship gymnastics” while trying to suppress content it might not approve of.
Some incredulous Twitter users reacted by saying they were waiting for confirmation that the message was “a thing and not a meme.”
However, it definitely is a thing – and it’s not hard to see how YouTube would disapprove of the particular streams from the Ottawa protests, since they were organized by truckers opposed to Covid vaccine mandates. Reports mention that the giant platform limited viewership of at least two creators both livestreaming from the “Trucker Freedom Convoy” events.
Reports also note that visitors can see the videos if they’re logged out of their YouTube accounts, and interpret this as a way to at once limit the reach of a video and be able to track viewers.
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“What’s that all about?”
It’s about censorship, fascism, narrative control and the Deep State. That’s what it’s about.
Sure is a good thing for google that nobody in the JustUs dept knows how to actually READ, cuz if they did they might find that our Anti Trust Laws are Powerful enough to through EVERY Executive at Google in PRISON and shut them Down forever, after Fining them the equivalent of thier total Net Worth
I thought there was a brand new streaming platform available.
I noticed that. It was weird.
Search you tube for “2000 Mules trailer” by Dinesh Disouza. Censored with fake impostor video
What is wrong in their heads?
The takeaway here is that all content creators should be uploading also to Rumble, Bitchute, Brighteon, 0dyssee, and Banned.com video, and that all persons who cannot find what they know is on YT to look on these.
Example here: The first press conference by the Canadian Convoy Organizers is here, for the moment. Spoiler: The Go Fund Me was NOT frozen. CDC stories are lying.
Watch before it is gone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYP5CP4sk-g&t=494s
FReegards. N.
As of the first of this year, YouTube has significantly reduced the reach of small channels. This has resulted in about a 90% reduction in traffic on channels with less than 50 thousand subscribers. Income has dropped by 80-90% for these creators.
YouTube pays out a tiny fraction of its advertising income to creators. It garnishes more than 30% of personal donations made by channel supporters. It collects more than 30% of membership fees paid in support of individual channels.
Obscene profiteering and illegal censoring by YouTube must be brought to an end.
They’d better not mess with Bald and Bankrupt.
Google regularly removes Subscribers and Likes and keeps more ad money for itself. They have also been caught dumping ads onto ad farms where no one views the ads. Bid advertisers caught them stealing their money but google only offered a discount for the next buy.
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