Free Republic

WARSAW, Poland, January 14, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) — The prime minister of Poland has delivered a blistering denunciation of Big Tech censorship, following the recent ban of President Donald Trump and others by virtually all social media giants. On Tuesday afternoon, Mateusz Morawiecki, 52, published a post defending internet freedom in both Polish and English on Facebook. He said that Poles are “so attached to freedom because we know what it is like when someone tries to limit it.” “For close to 50 years we lived in a country in which censorship was practiced, in which Big Brother told us how...

"Google has suspended President Donald Trump’s account on YouTube, which is the world’s largest video platform. The Google-owned company said Tuesday night that Trump uploaded content that violated its policies, giving it an automatic one-strike, which leads to a minimum seven-day suspension from uploading new content. It said it is also disabling the comments section...... .....“After review, and in light of concerns about the ongoing potential for violence, we removed new content uploaded to Donald J. Trump’s channel for violating our policies......."

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz described YouTube and Facebook as “partisan political tools” which should not be viewed as platforms as defined by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. “YouTube is no longer a platform, and Twitter is no longer a platform,” said Dershowitz on his podcast the Dershow. “It’s a partisan political tool that can be used for purposes that were unintended by Section 230, and section 230 must be amended, or at least interpreted not to apply to platforms that censor.” Dershowitz highlighted YouTube’s and Twitter’s arbitrary and inconsistent applications of their own nebulous terms...

Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen is demanding that Google kick President Donald Trump off of YouTube, claiming that banning the president on all social media is necessary to save democracy. Cohen — who is Hollywood’s most outspoken proponent of increased online censorship against conservatives — tweeted his demand on Monday, just days after Twitter and Facebook removed the president from their platforms. “Virtually every social media company has removed Trump…EXCEPT YouTube,” he wrote. “Trump’s YouTube channel is STILL showing videos of his election lies to MILLIONS of people!”

VIDEOIn the wake of the obscene crackdowns on free speech by the social media monopolies and their open antitrust destruction of competitors which just happened to Parler, we the people need a way to strike back. And one way to strike back is with a strike against YouTube which is owned by the Google monopoly. Therefore I am again calling for a YouTube Strike Day on the first of April, April Fools Day, in which creators decline to upload any videos that day and everybody else refuses to go on YouTube that day.If you want to upload a video or...

Never fully occurred to me what easy money youtube and Rumble is (are?). I would like to help support FReepers who have youtube or Rumble channels in hopes that you will use whatever financial blessing you receive will be used to support worthy causes such as FR.

🔰 JUST IN - YouTube has just purged Steve Bannon's "War Room" account. 🔰 JUST IN - Google warns #Parler it must police its app or it'll pull it from the Android Play Store (NYT). 🔰 JUST IN - @Discord has banned the server "The Donald", "due to its overt connection to an online forum used to incite violence and plan an armed insurrection." 🔰 President Trump has just joined Parler, according to Sean Hannity. Meanwhile, the Parler app is unusable. Probably due to overload. 🛑 JUST IN - Google suspends #Parler from the Google Play store.

I am considering building a movement and associated website to boycott the leftists. We are currently funding the very organizations who are silencing us. Every conservative and libertarian should be deleting their Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and other left owned social media accounts. We should also actively stop watching all major media (ABC NBC CBS PBS MSNBC CNN, etc.) AND contact their major advertisers to announce we will not buy their products if they support the silencing of the American people. I am proposing a website that provides a quick form to alert these media companies and advertisers of our intent...

CNBC's Eamon Javers reports on a letter sent from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi detailing her conversation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff on preventing Trump from initiating military hostilities during the remainder of his term. For access to live and exclusive video from CNBC subscribe to CNBC PRO: https://cnb.cx/2NGeIvi House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday that she spoke to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Mark Milley about available precautions that would block “an unstable president” — Donald Trump — from “ordering a nuclear strike,” or even accessing nuclear launch codes and starting other military hostilities. “The situation of this unhinged...

BREAKING: YouTube announces it will remove videos claiming election fraud, strike channels: "Now that the election results have been certified, and due to the extraordinary events that transpired [on Wednesday], videos uploaded on or after today (January 7) that violate this policy will both be removed and a strike will be applied to the channel."

VIDEO I almost fell out of my chair on the morning of January 2 when I looked at the number of views on my latest video uploaded on Rumble. This is in stark contrast to the same video at YouTube where they now rarely promote videos by creators and instead keep shoving legacy media BS at us. So thank you, Rumble, for your refusal to go along with the censorship now so prevalent in social media as well as for promoting videos uploaded by us "peons" that YouTube is trying to suppress or ignore. Oh, and if you are a...

VIDEOYouTube completely ignores criticism by the very people that made it a success. Its video creators. The "You" in YouTube. So what might make them take notice that their current practices are very destructive to creativity and the free flow of information? Perhaps a one-day strike in which the YouTube creators decline to upload videos while everyone refuses to view YouTube for that one strike day.

YouTube has censored a video from former congressman Ron Paul, known for his trailblazing presidential campaigns against the Republican establishment in 2008 and 2012. Paul, who is a medical doctor, was censored for “medical misinformation.” “Very disturbing news: YouTube has pulled an episode of the Ron Paul Liberty Report and issued a “warning” that any more violations will result in our not being able to put up more programs,” said Paul on Twitter. According to Paul, his video was taken down for “medical misinformation.” Before entering Congress, Paul enjoyed a long career as a medical doctor. He obtained his medical...

VIDEODue to astounding mismanagement by YouTube which is alienating many of its creators via lack of promotion and/or censorship in which vague rules are selectively enforced to the detriment of the "You" in YouTube, many creators are now in the process of moving to Rumble where they don't have to be worried about a Big Brother attitude.

The Kremlin in recent years has stepped up its efforts to control the Russian segment of the Internet under the pretext of combatting online extremismRussian lawmakers on Wednesday moved a step closer to allowing regulators to block Internet platforms like Facebook and YouTube if they are deemed to have censored content produced by Russians. Russia’s lower house of parliament, which passed draft legislation in a third reading, said in a media release that authorities can target platforms if they have been found to limit information based on nationality and language. The lower house State Duma added that Internet websites could...

One of President Donald Trump’s lawyers said YouTube removed his opening statement from a Senate Homeland Security hearing on election fraud. “YouTube has decided that my opening statement in the U.S. [Senate], given under oath and based upon hard evidence, is too dangerous for you to see; they removed it. To this day, ‘our evidence has never been refuted, only ignored.’ Why is Google so afraid of the truth? #BigBrother,” lawyer Jesse Binnall wrote on Twitter. Another video of his testimony at the hearing, uploaded on Dec. 17 by a separate account, appeared to still be up. The Epoch Times...

I just discovered yesterday that I've been banned by youtube for "repeated offensive or threatening" behavior. I do no such thing...not here,not on youtube,not anywhere. Just thought I'd show you all what I wrote on the "appeals" form I sent them.Of course I don't expect the decision to be reversed.Didn't twitter just announce that they'll be banning the President if (when?) he leaves office? "I comment on videos I see connected to politics and social issues.I don't use language nearly as strong or "offensive" as much of what I see nor do I make threats of any kind.Yes,I offend people...

VIDEOThe first of the media giants being "MySpaced" since the election is Fox News. This was a no-brainer since Fox completely alienated their conservative viewers with their Election Night antics. Another candidate for being "MySpaced" is YouTube since conservatives and everyone else who resents the increasing censorship at that site have the option of uploading their videos to Rumble.Com which I highly recommend as a backup plan.

VIDEOMySpace.Com was once a very popular social media site... And then it tumbled fast to near obscurity for a number of reasons. Therefore I propose we turn "MySpace" into a verb and use it for what many of us desire to do to the current social media giants who are engaged in over-the-top censorship and Big Brother monitoring of our personal data. Remember, all of you out there have the power to "MySpace" YouTube and Twitter and Facebook.

VIDEOIt might sound like a crazy question now but a year ago the idea that videos questioning election results would be banned by YouTube also sounded crazy. And now it is an Orwellian reality. All these bans by the YouTube "platform" seem to be leading to the ban, or at least demonetization, of videos that so much as even mention the U.S. Constitution. The ban might be a lot nearer than you think at the rate YouTube is going.