Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
“Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies,” a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
“YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community.”
Explosive Media’s content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
That means the videos were effective; I don’t agree with Youtube’s decision but it’s their business I guess.
Now I want to watch the videos
So… Its still online.
thank you brother
p.s. it’s good, not even radical. Makes YOUTUBE look very bad to pull it, in my opinion.
where are our noble free speech warriors though?
Sucking on boots
I guess corpos see more $$$ in boomers and fascists.
They are welcome to join the fediverse and put videos on peertube, odysse, bitchute, kick, whatever.
But sadly, now millions.of eyes won’t see it, which is entirely the point of the censorship.
Youtube supporting zionist violence? Shocked.
I am shocked. SHOCKED I say.
…not that shocked actually.
Its propaganda sure, but they didn’t even need to lie in the lyrics. Is it still propaganda if true? Looks more like satire to me.
Every American company is loyal to the empire. If not by gleeful obedience then at least by threat of court orders and political pressure. I guess in Google’s case it’s that kind of gleeful obedience.
I have not only de-googled myself, but I have de-Americaned too Moved all my online business to European equivalents. It has been eye opening as not only are the European equivalents comparable, but they had surprise extras that saved me money overall. That and OMG they are so much easier to setup and navigate as I am not wading through offers, upgrades, pop ups and dark patterns all over the dang place. It is like I have exited an abusive relationship with America that I did not even realize was as bad as it was. I love America, but I cannot be a part of funding their fascism.
Which video platform have you moved to?
I did the same and also I’m trying to use open source wherever is possible.
The only thing that I was still using was reddit but they banned me because I was promoting violence against Israel, while the hate comments against Iran was worse.
Hey Google, fuck off.
TIL .ml loves mass-spam of genAI slopaganda if it’s in support of a cause they’re aligned with. Good to know.
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yes. we dislike things that are bad, and we tolerate the things that can do good.
Not even a little surprised that tankies – the fucking cognoscenti of rhetoric that pretends to care about a bad thing, masking that the real goal is for “their side” to have a monopoly on the bad thing – lack consistent ethics when it comes to destroying the planet and flooding out human-made media for shitty, braindead, dubiously effective propaganda.
go cry in your anti-tankie community.
Here you’re just annoying people with your sick fixation and fanatic McCartyism.
Or get new pills from your psychiatristOr get new pills from your psychiatrist
“Ableism is cool when we do it.”
Tankies are always so happy to self-report; thank you for substantiating exactly what I said.
LOL this you hypocrite?
Uhh… What? It’s tongue-in-cheek. How and where is this ableist?
can you go away now and be boring somewhere else?
Fuck it, I’ll just block you, your type never does
lack consistent ethics
Consistent ethics is when I declare all sides bad and ignore geopolitical context
destroying the planet
The tankies is China are creating the first electrostate in human history and installing more renewables energy capacity than all of the lib states
flooding out human-made media
It’s the tankies that are doing this (not big tech). I am smart
Quick username question: opinions on North Korea? Since we’re on the whole “shitty ethics” thing.
Sounds a lot like: “We broadly support North Korea, but that’s too embarrassing to say directly, so we’ll just shitpost about it like a neo-Nazi would when asked a direct question about their abhorrent beliefs – afraid of frightening away the normies by revealing their ‘power level’.”
It’s comforting to me that you have to carry the level of shame that your beliefs are unspeakable in spaces dominated by sane people – and are barely even speakable in this deranged hellhole for fear that your monstrous beliefs will surface above the irony poisoning and scare away the few people with functioning consciences who stumbled into this from the front page.
There’s no embarrassment, I think I can speak for all Marxists Leninists when I say
ladies and gentlemen, I say it without flinching: communism in eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Cuba brought land reform and human services; a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or never since witnessed in human history, and that’s something to appreciate. Communism transformed desperately poor countries into societies in which everyone had adequate food, shelter, medical care, and education, and some of us who come from poor families who carry around the hidden injuries of class are very impressed; are very, very impressed by these achievements and are not willing to dismiss them as economistic.
We support the DPRK for all it’s done for its people who the EuroAmerikans waged a war of extermination on. And not only their people but the oppressed people of the world, from the Americas to Africa supporting anti imperialist struggle the world over.
I support North Korea, cry about it halfwit
No, you know you have no arguments and you’ve been caught so you’re trying to pretend there’s something wrong with us for not blindly believing CIA propaganda.
This is you:
If you want us to stop clowning you then own up to your mistakes and sit down and READ.
Smooth pivot. Really stuck the landing.
Just wanted to cut through the bullshit and remind myself that when they said I think “all sides bad and ignore geopolitical context”, they were definitely also referring to among the most reprehensible authoritarian regimes on Earth that they support.
Like it’s some ridiculous, hand-wavey stance to think the US and North Korea (and obviously Iran, but that doesn’t fully illustrate how depraved their worldview is) are simultaneously bad.
Just wanted to cut through the bullshit and remind myself that when they said I think “all sides bad and ignore geopolitical context”, they were definitely also referring to among the most reprehensible authoritarian regimes on Earth that they support.
Continue to ignore geopolitical context. Not like the US killed 1/5th of the north Korean population or anything. Not like everything you think you know about the DPRK comes from south Korea (which is US occupied). Stay ignorant and mad lib
For the less ignorant onlookers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktE_3PrJZO0
Yes, marxist-leninists are pro-AI. Our goal is victory for the working class, and we will use any tool at our disposal to win.
But oh no, the moralizing radlib (dubious “morals” that somehow always ignore their own genocides) has appeared. Status quo defence at any cost is the goal of the radlibs, this includes preserving hollywood’s propaganda monopoly.
And the more our enemies tell us not to use it, the more we’re proven right. It scares them that the people have access to this power. They hate it when the people have power, and smear it by calling it “populism”.
Radlibs hate democracy.
But you can’t win. You could destroy all the AI in the west, we won’t care. Because the real good AI comes from china. And you can never defeat china.
not even a little surprised that libs chuck their free speech absolutism the moment that speech is against the lib status quo. to defend a pedophile regime this time, no less.
i mean come on, the slop ship has sailed and being a luddite about it will just put you at a disadvantage.
You among others are the reason why I don’t do vacations in the US anymore. Most people here in Germany think like that now.
genAI has predominantly been pushed by the US, particularly the super wealthy in the US, so that they can exploit the working class even more and pay them even less. As much as I hate genAI, seeing Iran, who was absolutely the wronged party in this completely illegal and unnecessary war, turn the tool of the oppressors against them, and using it to agitate for class consciousness in the USA, is just fucking awesome, IMO.
Did you see the anti-Trump rap one? It actually goes so fucking hard.
♥️
This post is about censorship not about whether people like AI.
McCarthy and his pathetic effort to badmouth .ml
The definition of petty
Ehy Google, what about the anti-vaxers, fake-moon-landing, qanon channels, and similar shit?
What about the pro Trump and pro US?
I’m fine with removing them as well
Remove Youtube
Conservative slop is always permitted on conservative media.
Put them up on peertube.
It’d be so great if we could use Peertube as a “hosting provider” for Lemmy videos
I just want to be able to add PeerTube channels on my Lemmy feed. Unified ActivityPub protocol, my ass.
Explosive Media, known in Persian as Akhbar Enfejari, has denied it is backed by the Iranian government and its videos have reached millions of viewers across a range of social media platforms.
Speaking to the BBC, the head of Explosive Media, who referred to himself as “Mr Explosive”, said his team consisted of fewer than 10 people and that the Iranian government was a “customer” of his company.
NGL, confusing article. Not even sure why it would matter?
If Iranian state actors are producing videos of this quality, it may become an existential threat to US Meme Hegemony.
I’m not surprised, but those videos were pretty fucking funny
Do Prager U and Ben Shapio next
hahaha fat chance
Is this like when we banned the Chinese electric cars because we dont feel like competing anymore?
Or women athletes because they were better at certain sports
More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.
They learned their lesson from this and Huawei, so now private companies are self censoring on behalf of the govt. That’s why Colbert is losing his job and cutting edge Chinese phones don’t work on American carriers despite being fully compatible.
