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VIDEOThe good news is that the public piano that had been cordoned off under guard due to the Chinese Communists acting like authoritarians because British pianist Brendan Kavanaugh would not comply with their outrageous demand to remove his video has been liberated (for now). The bad news, as exposed by Kavanaugh during his piano liberation speech, is that it appears that YouTube is following CCP censorship orders since a YouTube channel featuring Hong Kong people showing support for Kavanaugh has been taken down. And in light of recent pandemic history that is not the only example of YouTube censorship at...

YouTube has reportedly banned Sky News in Australia from posting to their 1.85M followers for allegedly breaching the platforms Covid misinformation policy. Sky News Australia, which usually publishes dozens of videos a day, hasn't posted a video for more than two days to the platform. The news channel continues to post as usual to their Facebook page. The suspension follows the Daily Telegraph cancelling Sky News presenter Alan Jones' column.

Here are a few exchanges that caught the attention of YouTube’s censors: DeSantis at one point in the video asked if it was necessary for kids to wear masks in school. Dr. Kulldorff in response said “children should not wear face masks, no. They don’t need it for their own protection and they don’t need it for protecting other people, either.” The video, which was removed on Wednesday, was of a recent roundtable discussion DeSantis moderated on the global response to the pandemic. DeSantis was joined by Oxford epidemiologist Dr. Sunetra Gupta, Harvard professor Dr. Martin Kulldorff, and Dr. Scott...

John posted the compelling video of Drs. Dan Erickson and Artin Massihi in “A report from the front lines” over the weekend in two parts. At the time John posted the videos, they had more than 2,000,000 views. The doctors decried California’s COVID-19 related lockdown in particular on medical and economic grounds. Part 1 carried the heart of the doctors’ remarks in about 50 minutes. Drs. Erickson and Massihi are the proprietors of Accelerated Urgent Care in Bakersfield, Fresno, and Temecula. Their remarks were based on their experience dealing with the virus in Kern County. They focused on their own...

On Saturday two California doctors of Immunology went on with KERO News 23 in California and made a video disputing the official state coronavirus policy in California...On Monday night the two California doctors went on The Ingraham Angle with Laura Ingraham to discuss their expertise and challenge the official state narrative on the coronavirus...Following their appearance on the show their videos were removed from Google-YouTube!

"And so we are bringing that same notion [from Google] and approach to YouTube, so that we can rank higher quality stuff better and really prevent borderline content — content which doesn’t exactly violate policies, which need to be removed, but which can still cause harm."

This kid gives me hope. Of course your age won't stop the left from going after her. This is way beyond anything I could have argued at this age. Amazing.

YouTube is modifying its search engine to "promote more authoritative sources" in an effort to demote debunked conspiracy theories that have been spreading in the wake of the Las Vegas massacre, according to The Wall Street Journal. ... One of those results in question was a video titled "Proof Las Vegas Shooting Was a FALSE FLAG attack—Shooter on 4th Floor," which claimed there were multiple shooters involved in the massacre — a rumor that has been refuted by authorities. On Tuesday, that video appeared as the fifth result when searching YouTube for "Las Vegas shooting," according to the report, helping...

A few minutes ago I was reading an article about the Taliban in Pakistan and this so-called region of Waziristan. In an effort to geographically orient myself, I decided to type Waziristan into my beloved Google Maps. Unfortunately, Waziristan could not be (properly) located, and I received this response. Waziristan, Pakhistan [sic] ‎Address: Removal requested (No such place) Luckily, one can look up Waziristan elsewhere and find out where the place really is. Wikipedia, for example. I'm not a conspiracy nut or anything like that, but I'd like to throw this question out to everybody reading this post. Who do...