Do YouTube Restrictions Target Conservative And Gun Channels?
BY Herschel Smith
7 years, 8 months ago
Yes, just like Google (who owns YouTube), Twitter, Disqus, the MSM, college professors, corporate leadership and just about everybody else in power. Next question.
Then, one idea I haven’t seen explored (beyond me suggesting it) is to use “the enemy’s” own tactics against him. The small “l” libertarian in me says social media giants are private enterprises, and if we don’t like the way they operate, we should go our separate ways. That does not account for the tremendous influence these corporations have on government actions and policies, which introduces coercive potential into the voluntary associations.
I think this is the best approach. It’s what I have attempted to do with Disqus comments. If readers will notice, I’ve dumped Disqus and gone back to something simpler. For a test period we had something like it with responses, but we’ve hopefully got something similar or better in the works.
Transitioning away from things like this isn’t easy. We’ve also transferred web hosts from Media Temple to another, because Media Temple had started to gouge me on prices. Why did they do that? I don’t know. I also know that my problems with Disqus left the theoretical and entered the practical when they moderated a commenter’s comment and I couldn’t approve it. It didn’t show up in the comments, but I saw it as site owner, although in Disqus there was nothing to approve. Disqus left it impossible for me to approve the comment.
I don’t use Facebook and have no account, and don’t do Twitter. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons for low visits compared to similar blogs (“yea, blame it on social media rather than your own writing you putz” – the couch). Either way, until we begin to divorce ourselves from the censoring censors, they will keep censoring us.
And before I forget it, I share David’s dislike of The Firearm Blog’s claim that it’s not politics, only guns. Sure it is. I’ve seen exceptions to that rule, and they make them when it’s convenient. They ought to defenestrate the entire rule and blog on whatever they want. This is only going to get worse with time. Be prepared for more censorship with the ever increasing war on guns and traditional culture.
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