YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations

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• zd9@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    You are giving youtube the benefit of the doubt, on israel, and 36 people agreed? Jesus christ.

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• Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Alternative title: Trump administration forces YouTube to delete more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations

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  • Zombie@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Forces implies an unwillingness and resistance. Knowing YouTube, they were probably more than happy to help in the covering up of war crimes.

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    • Kissaki@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      “requires” may have been a more fitting term, but it implies/can be read as the removal hasn’t happened yet

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• Cassanderer@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  All social media has been since before the final solution for the gaza ghetto.

  Including reddit, facebook, twitter, instagram, tik tok now.

  In private companies courts decided we have no rights, but the government can lean on them in secret, creating a de facto government censorship of speech.

  Same as warrantless surveillance, the government buys private data broker info without cause or warrant on everyone, does another end run around the bill of rights.

  We need clear rules we can challenge enforcrment actiond on, I would say if not settled by an appeal to be decided by a jury of users, but I am an english common law partisan like that.

  State laws could work but courts would cancel them the first time israel was criticized. And feds would pre empt.

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• cman6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m not a big YouTuber but I do follow a few accounts. I’m going to contact them and let them know about the possibility of Peertube.tv.

  Hopefully they won’t see it as much more effort to upload their content to two places, but we’ll see!

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• melfie@lemy.lol ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What would the legal consequences be if YouTube did not comply with the sanctions and refused to delete the videos / accounts? Are they caving because they don’t give a damn, or because they have no choice?

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They are caving because they are paid to.

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  • Cassanderer@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The lawmakers would jamn them and parent corporation in a thousand ways not related to this. No evidence why they are jamning them to challenge in court. That is how it is done now.

    Ie background checks for someone that would pass the check but has detractors, background check never comes through, they have no idea just wait they say. That way you have no right to get a copy of the information used against you as prescribed by law, no legal challenges, etc.

    Lawyers working for super rich fucktwats run the west, and it is more of a shitshow everyday.

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• Sunshine@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Looks like the YouTube boycott begins!

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• Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Stop whining about censorship, stop using media that is controlled by so few people. It’s that simple.

  It’s like putting my hand in a crocs mouth and trusting it to not bite.

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