Posted on 06/27/2021 11:18:42 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A human rights group focused on exposing China’s slow-motion genocide of the Uyghur people and others in Xinjiang is moving videos from YouTube to another platform after YouTube repeatedly blocked some of its videos for ostensibly violating the company’s terms of service. In one case, YouTube claimed the videos promoted violent criminal organizations, echoing the Chinese Communist Party’s attacks on dissenters.
“There is another excuse every day. I never trusted YouTube,” Serikzhan Bilash, one of the founders of the human rights group Atajurt, told Reuters. “But we’re not afraid anymore, because we are backing ourselves up with LBRY. The most important thing is our material’s safety.”
Atajurt attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in Xinjiang. The nonprofit is moving its videos to the alternative video service Odysee after Google-owned YouTube took them down.
Atajurt, which international organizations like Human Rights Watch have credited with drawing attention to the human rights crisis in Xinjiang, has faced hostility from the authorities in Kazakhstan since its founding in 2017.
Bilash, the Atajurt co-founder, was himself born in Xinjiang. Kazakh authorities have arrested him multiple times, and in one instance government advisors told him to stop using the word “genocide” to describe the CCP’s efforts against the Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in the northeast Chinese province. Bilash suspected that this demand traced back to the CCP, which had likely pressured Kazakh authorities.
Referring to Atajurt’s videos, Bilash told Reuters, “They’re just facts. The people giving the testimonies are talking about their loved ones.”
Atajurt Kazakh Human Rights’ channel has published nearly 11,000 videos on YouTube, racking up over 120 million views since 2017. Thousands of those videos feature people speaking to the camera about relatives who they say have disappeared without a trace
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On June 15, YouTube blocked Atajurt, claiming the channel had violated its guidelines. Twelve of Atajurt’s videos had been reported for breaching the platform’s “cyberbullying and harassment” policy.
Between April and June, YouTube had blocked the videos and Atajurt had appealed the censorship. The platform had reinstated some of the videos, but it did not provide an explanation as to why others of them remained out of the public view.
YouTube removed the channel, but the platform restored it after Reuters asked for comment about the removal. YouTube said that Atajurt had received several “strikes” for videos containing people holding up ID cards to prove that they were related to missing persons, violating a YouTube policy that prohibits personally-identifiable information in its videos. The platform reinstated Atajurt on June 18, asking the human rights group to blur the IDs.
Is YouTube an enemy of human rights? They are if genocide is a crime against Humanity. Perhaps YouTube management can explain to us either why genocide is not happening, or why it is not so bad? It is happening, and has been happening during the entire history of Communist totalitarian rule, and that of the Communist Chinese Party in particular. Go ahead, YouTube, explain yourself.
The CCP and the Democrat Party sure are simpatico.
But vile, nakedly Anti-Semitic content that refers to Israelis as: “AshkeNAZI Khazar Fake “Jew” Occupiers of Palestine”, and referring to Israel as an: “Illegal, Illegitimate, Genocidal Apartheid Pseudo-State” are perfectly A-OK and totally Kosher on YouTube. (added bonus points for the idea of ‘pushing the Jews into the sea’).
Roger that!
Yeah, the problem with genocides is that invariably, they ‘Never Happened’...
What a shock! /s
China has bought off our high officials and social media heads and who knows who else, Federal agency heads? Wow....
The blocking is not done on the whim of some low paid drone at You Tube headquarters. There is coordination with the left in this country and with the chicoms.
The Ministry of Truth lives again.
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