Stating that the content is ‘controversial,’ not the censorship itself, YouTube has taken the first few steps to censor dissenting views. But it gets worse. YouTube will also begin to censor your searches and fill the results with propaganda while on its website.
Last night, YouTube took to its ‘Official Blog’ to more or less announce that they would be taking steps to censor content they determined to be ‘controversial,’ even if that content didn’t break any laws or violate the site’s user agreement. The message made a pledge to be part of an effort to ‘fight terror content online.’ But the move was rightly met with widespread skepticism among YouTuber’s as nothing more than a thinly-veiled attempt to censor conservative speech.
It’s not just ‘controversial’ content creators that will be impacted as anyone who merely searches for keywords that YouTube deems ‘questionable’, for whatever reason, will be promptly redirected to propaganda videos intended to ‘directly confront and debunk’ whatever questionable content that user was looking for. Meaning, you’ll be bombarded with the right kind of propaganda approved by YouTube designed to get you thinking the way YouTube insists upon.
This post was published at shtfplan on August 3rd, 2017.
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