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zd9@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I wouldn’t put it past Google to help censor for Israel, but there’s a very real chance that these videos may have just violated whatever obtuse terms they have, maybe something with gore/violence? I don’t know.

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Deebster@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The article shows that that’s not what’s going on:

YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.

Did you read the article or just the headline?

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- zd9@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Who reads any article these days? Only total losers and bozos read anything more than the headline.
  
  (I read a different article that was much shorter from reddit, then saw this headline)
  
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- Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  On Lemmy web you don’t even have to open the article. This info/content is in the content teaser.
  
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jeffw@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This was my immediate guess. Not even obtuse terms, just not wanting kids to stumble on torture porn and snuff films

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- themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The three human rights groups’ account terminations cumulatively amount to the erasure of more than 700 videos, according to an Intercept tally.
  
  The deleted videos range in scope from investigations, such as an analysis of the Israeli killing of American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, to testimonies of Palestinians tortured by Israeli forces and documentaries like “The Beach,” about children playing on a beach who were killed by an Israeli strike.
  
  Some videos are still available through copies saved on the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine or on alternate platforms, such as Facebook and Vimeo. The wiping only affected the group’s official channels; videos which were produced by the nonprofits but hosted on alternate YouTube channels remain active. No cumulative index of videos deleted by YouTube is available, however, and many appear to not be available elsewhere online.
  
  Doesn’t seem like they violate the polices.
  
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Cassanderer@thelemmy.club ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
You are giving youtube the benefit of the doubt, on israel, and 36 people agreed? Jesus christ.

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