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.
“YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community.”
- Bullsh*t it doesn’t and
- Which one of those categories does an obvious satire / parody channel fall under?
That Hegseth one was pure gold. I’m going to be bummed when it’s gone
Sleazy company
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.
where are our noble free speech warriors though?
Is this like when we banned the Chinese electric cars because we dont feel like competing anymore?
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.
More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.
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.
Do Prager U and Ben Shapio next
hahaha fat chance
I’m not surprised, but those videos were pretty fucking funny
Put them up on peertube.
It’d be so great if we could use Peertube as a “hosting provider” for Lemmy videos
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.
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
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.
TIL .ml loves mass-spam of genAI slopaganda if it’s in support of a cause they’re aligned with. Good to know.
The Epstein class appreciates your brave defense
This post is about censorship not about whether people like AI.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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, that slop ship you describe has sailed and being a luddite about it will just put you at a disadvantage.
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McCarthy and his pathetic effort to badmouth .ml
The definition of petty
