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YouTube Bans Content Exposing ‘Election Fraud Or Errors,’ Vows To ‘Ramp Up’ Censorship
The National Pulse ^ | 9 Dec, 2020 | NATALIE WINTERS

Posted on 12/09/2020 9:45:17 AM PST by MtnClimber

YouTube has announced it will remove videos criticizing Joe Biden’s alleged victory and reporting on election “fraud or errors,” instead promoting the content of corporate media outlets and fact checkers. Per YouTube, its December 9th decision was guided by its “main goal” of “connecting people with authoritative information, while also limiting the reach of misinformation and removing harmful content.”

In reality, however, the platform will likely axe a host of pro-Trump accounts, as it has done before.

Specifically, the platform vowed to crack down on any content that exposes “widespread fraud or errors” incurred during the 2020 election:

“We also disallow content alleging widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of a historical U.S. Presidential election. However in some cases, that has meant allowing controversial views on the outcome or process of counting votes of a current election as election officials have worked to finalize counts.

Yesterday was the safe harbor deadline for the U.S. Presidential election and enough states have certified their election results to determine a President-elect. Given that, we will start removing any piece of content uploaded today (or anytime after) that misleads people by alleging that widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, in line with our approach towards historical U.S. Presidential elections. For example, we will remove videos claiming that a Presidential candidate won the election due to widespread software glitches or counting errors. We will begin enforcing this policy today, and will ramp up in the weeks to come.”


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bigtech; censorship; collaboration; communism; electionfraud; electioninterference; insurrection; nazi; rumble; youtube
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To: MtnClimber

“Youtube” didn’t do anything. People with names and addresses who work for or manage youtube are censoring free expression. We need to know who is doing this, specifically.


21 posted on 12/09/2020 9:57:37 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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“The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there’s no place for it in the endeavor of science.”
-Carl Sagan

(How ironic how many times the left has tossed his quote out the window when it suits their needs)


22 posted on 12/09/2020 9:57:48 AM PST by RandallFlagg (Some men just want to watch the world burn.)
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To: Fai Mao

Vimeo is doing the same sort of censorship. They used to be a good alternative to YT and I know a lot of vloggers who were getting better monetary deals on Vimeo, but now they are censoring.


23 posted on 12/09/2020 9:57:59 AM PST by ponygirl (An Appeal to Heaven )
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To: MtnClimber
This entire painful episode has shown one thing that is positive. Big Tech used every trick that they have to try and influence this election. Republicans won all across the nation even with the rampant cheating and fraud. It was such an incredible win for President Trump that they didn't even have time to fully mark the fake ballots. So Biden has millions of preprinted fake ballots with only his name marked. So much for Big Tech's influence over true patriots. And when President Trump is inaugurated for his 2nd term the hammer is going to fall on these leftist traitors. The country which enabled them their leaders to become billionaires is going to strike back.
24 posted on 12/09/2020 9:59:11 AM PST by fireman15
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To: MtnClimber
What will YT do when Trump retains the WH?

Pretend it didn't happen?

Folks will demand answers and YT can't suppress that reality.

25 posted on 12/09/2020 10:02:31 AM PST by G Larry (There is no merit in compromising with the Devil.)
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To: MtnClimber

Wow, but Kathy Griffin holding up a severed Trump head is on there. See for yourself!

The deep state of treachery, under-handedness, lies, flat EVIL is alive and well in the good, old USA and apparently Twitter, Facebook, and YOUTUBE.


26 posted on 12/09/2020 10:02:40 AM PST by sevinufnine
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To: MtnClimber

Another issue here with literally no difference between the GOP and Dems in the Senate. The doormat GOP Senate is just fine with election interference to the benefit of Democrats. Moronically, even when it directly effects them like search manipulation for the GA Senate runoff.


27 posted on 12/09/2020 10:04:01 AM PST by lodi90
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To: MtnClimber

Vimeo?


28 posted on 12/09/2020 10:04:05 AM PST by Sequoyah101 (I have a burning hatred of anyone who would vote for a demented, pedophile, crook and a commie whore)
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To: MtnClimber

There have been controversies surrounding all sorts of events in US history. JFK, 9/11, elections. The list goes on and on.

Will they remove conspiracy theory videos on the JFK assassination? What is the “safe harbor” date for that? The assassination occurred 57 years ago.


29 posted on 12/09/2020 10:04:17 AM PST by plain talk
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To: MtnClimber

Youtube is a part of the muslim marxist coalition against the west.

They forget , (willingly and purposefully) its the white Christians of western europe that are the largest single contributors to the progress and achievement that we all enjoy today.

https://www.ns-businesshub.com/business/muslim-business-leaders-in-the-us/

Screw Ewetube!


30 posted on 12/09/2020 10:04:43 AM PST by himno hero (had'nff)
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To: Sequoyah101

Don’t waste a precious second on Vimeo....it absolutely sucks.


31 posted on 12/09/2020 10:05:11 AM PST by sevinufnine
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To: MtnClimber

Bump. Insane. 1984 wasn’t supposed to be an instruction manual.


32 posted on 12/09/2020 10:08:49 AM PST by golux
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To: MtnClimber

Smells like the Communist Chinese Party to me.

Keep in mind Youtube allowed the Democrats to say the 2016 election was stolen for 4 years.


33 posted on 12/09/2020 10:09:18 AM PST by Enlightened1 ( )
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To: MtnClimber

LOL!

The Youtube KGB will silence those who dare challenge the fascist Central State Truth & Propaganda Authority! There will be ONLY ONE narrative and state filtered reality and truth!

The coup must be completed and any dissenters will be SILENCED or spend the rest of their lives in a gulag!


34 posted on 12/09/2020 10:12:21 AM PST by Bellagio
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To: MtnClimber

All of the crap over the years on Trump and the fake collusion BS...

But now we have REAL fraud going on and they bring the hammer down?

Disgusting.


35 posted on 12/09/2020 10:14:57 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: MtnClimber

Yep. If I had my way, they would be treated as such.


36 posted on 12/09/2020 10:15:25 AM PST by rlmorel ("I’d rather enjoy a risky freedom than a safe servitude." Robby Dinero, USMC Veteran, Gym Owner)
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To: Eleutheria5

“No News in the Truth, and no Truth in the News”...


37 posted on 12/09/2020 10:17:41 AM PST by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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To: MtnClimber
Unbelievable. I'm from an older generation, and we would be ashamed to censor thoughts and ideas. Free Speech was one of our God given rights; we learned this as children.

In the marketplace of ideas, truth and good ideas will sort themselves out and rise to the surface. A vibrant Republic requires the free flow of truth and information, however damning to any partisan cause. Thought police need not apply.

38 posted on 12/09/2020 10:17:53 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: ponygirl

Google.


39 posted on 12/09/2020 10:18:54 AM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: BenLurkin

“Democracy Dies in Derangement”

“Democracy Dies in Deception”

“Democracy Dies in Dominion”


40 posted on 12/09/2020 10:18:55 AM PST by Salamander (...Ragnarök...)
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