YouTube "Economically Censors" Ron Paul, Labels Videos "Not Suitable" For All Advertisers

Conservative And Independent YouTube Channels Hit By Censorship And Demonetization

YouTube is now demonetizing videos from content creators deemed too controversial for the platform, and conservatives and independents are being heavily impacted.

The move follows YouTube’s announcement earlier in August to catch and flag “controversial religious and supremacist” content hosted on the popular video-hosting website. Political and social commentators on YouTube are feeling the hurt—and they believe that they may be on a blacklist for having the wrong opinions.
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Affected creators are unable to make money from their work, which is automatically flagged or vetted by volunteer “experts.” In addition, the new system incorporates “tougher standards” for controversial videos that do not break YouTube’s terms of service, which are placed in a purgatory state that effectively censors them from being recommended to YouTube viewers.

The Daily Caller spoke to conservative and independent YouTubers whose channels are now being affected by the new policy. Conservative journalist Lauren Southern believes there is a drive to stifle politically divergent voices.

“I think it would be insane to suggest there’s not an active effort to censor conservative and independent views,” said Southern. “Considering most of Silicon Valley participate in the censorship of alleged ‘hate speech,’ diversity hiring and inclusivity committees. Their entire model is based around a far left outline. There’s no merit hiring, there’s no support of free speech and there certainly is not an equal representation of political views at these companies.”

Independent journalist and activist Luke Rudkowski, who runs WeAreChange, told The Daily Caller that hundreds of his videos were demonetized in a single day on Thursday, effectively killing his ability to earn a living on YouTube.

“Having had 660 of my videos demonetized in one day left me a little stunned since this is the core for my income but left me with the impression that this was done on purpose,” said Rudkowski, who said that the videos included some of his most popular videos from years ago. “This was videos from years ago predominately targeting the most viewed videos which has eviscerated my income.”
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Daniel Sulzbach, better known as MrRepzion, told the Daily Caller that YouTube’s demonetization of his videos has hurt his incentive to make new content. He says that it hasn’t been the first time his videos were demonetized, but when the issue happened previously in early 2017, he was able to successfully appeal for them to be restored.

“The difference now is that my videos are not being restored with monetization when I file for manual review,” said Sulzbach.
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Edgy YouTube comedian Razorfist says every single one of his videos was demonetized. His biggest issue with the site was how the platform values progressive voices over everyone else through biased algorithms. Razorfist cited a video rebuttal to Sam Seder (a left wing comedian) as an example of the bias. He claims that Seder posted a reply containing Razorfist’s video in its entirety, but the algorithm flagged the original video for demonetization.

“If leftist channels are being white-listed, someone’s going to have to explain to me how this algorithm is functionally any different than a conservative blacklist,” he said.
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“Google’s going to need to explain to me why John Oliver can engage in weekly invective punctuated by a hail of profane epithets, skew it leftward, and still have ads for Pampers and pimple cream adorn the margins of his unwatchable videos,” he said.

Conservative vlogger and cultural pundit Mark Dice told The Daily Caller he believes YouTube is upset at the rise of conservative channels on YouTube over the past year, and that the new policies are designed to squelch dissenting voices.

“I think YouTube is furious that so many conservative channels have gotten so popular in the last year, and they don’t want us to be able to work full-time doing what we’re doing because our message is at odds with almost everything that Google and YouTube’s leadership stands for,” said Dice, who says that even his monetized videos are underperforming as a result of the changes.
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He says that his videos performed better when he had a 10th of his subscriber count, years ago.
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“YouTube has kicked a bees nest by going after Diamond and Silk [a channel of two black female Trump supporters]. I think it won’t be long before President Trump is commenting on YouTube’s censorship,” he said.
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http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/11/c...hannels-hit-by-censorship-and-demonetization/
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And this has been where we've been failing for 7 months. We can see the front lines and the faces of the enemy and yet there are those that sit on their hands because "that guy" isn't exactly befitting of their support. It's about principles, not the characters involved. You may hate PJW or Milo or Drudge or AJ but they're on the front lines against the same elements that'll take down Zerohedge or other alternative press and even this site. You may hate Trump but he's on the front lines against the same enemies that'll stop Rand and Ron and all Liberty minded candidates to destroy everything you hold great about this country.

For those of you who are still on the fence about choosing a "side", you need to step up to the front lines and fight the right battles because it's easier to support a bigger force then to wait until it all collapses, to the point that you care or are directly affected, and crushes what you have left to death.
 
Dangergirl said:
And this has been where we've been failing for 7 months. We can see the front lines and the faces of the enemy and yet there are those that sit on their hands because "that guy" isn't exactly befitting of their support. It's about principles, not the characters involved. You may hate PJW or Milo or Drudge or AJ but they're on the front lines against the same elements that'll take down Zerohedge or other alternative press and even this site. You may hate Trump but he's on the front lines against the same enemies that'll stop Rand and Ron and all Liberty minded candidates to destroy everything you hold great about this country.

For those of you who are still on the fence about choosing a "side", you need to step up to the front lines and fight the right battles because it's easier to support a bigger force then to wait until it all collapses, to the point that you care or are directly affected, and crushes what you have left to death.
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Valid point
 
Hey, in their defense Ron Paul does say some shockingly offensive things like violence is bad and people should be nice to each other.

Christ almighty, the man is basically Obi Wan and they're going after him. Try to imagine a world in which the same occurs to leftist loon Bernie Sanders. You can't. The left is never held to the same standard that we are.

Ultimately this has led to arguments on the right being so perfectly crystallized and refined, it has led to a thorough understanding of history and fact, it has led to RWNJs like Richard Spencer being disavowed vehemently... while the left screeches on with nothing but emotion as Antifa is embraced by the MSM when it bashes peaceful protestors with bike locks and bats.

If you think it is absurd now, just wait until Democrat loses more seats in the Senate in 2018. The left will become completely unhinged.
 
Dangergirl said:
And this has been where we've been failing for 7 months. We can see the front lines and the faces of the enemy and yet there are those that sit on their hands because "that guy" isn't exactly befitting of their support. It's about principles, not the characters involved. You may hate PJW or Milo or Drudge or AJ but they're on the front lines against the same elements that'll take down Zerohedge or other alternative press and even this site. You may hate Trump but he's on the front lines against the same enemies that'll stop Rand and Ron and all Liberty minded candidates to destroy everything you hold great about this country.

For those of you who are still on the fence about choosing a "side", you need to step up to the front lines and fight the right battles because it's easier to support a bigger force then to wait until it all collapses, to the point that you care or are directly affected, and crushes what you have left to death.
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See my sig. If they weren't cointelpro from the start, they have all been co-opted by now. The only answer is to stop participating in the tribal games. Don't pick sides. Stay on the side of truth, regardless of which side on any issue the truth falls on. They control each side and play them against each other. Opting out and staying true to pure truth-seeking is the only way to win.
 
P3ter_Griffin said:
Youtube is a match maker not a market maker. If youtube is missing matches for creators they are missing out on the 50% of the pie that is in the agreement. Instead of hosting the content to make money they are hosting it like a charity, that does not sound like censorship. And it doesn't even stop content producers from monetizing youtube hosted videos.
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This, Stefan Molyneux a man that annoys me has figured this out and has been able to thrive and prosper in the youtube universe without ever turning on his adcents option with youtube. He freely uses their platform to broadcast his lies and propaganda and essentially he is winning. Just last month he withdrew $1.5 m in bitcoin that his viewers have been donating to him and this does not include the cash donations people like Danke give to him every month.

Ron Paul just has to change tactics to survive.
 
We have all heard the argument about if this restaurant doesn't allow smoking and the restaurant across the street does then people will go where they want. This is supposed to be good for business. This seems like a golden opportunity for some other entity to come into play against youtube.
 
RT is running this too.

‘Economic censorship’: YouTube bans advertisers from Ron Paul videos

https://www.rt.com/usa/401240-ron-paul-youtube-demonetization-censorship-advertisers/

YouTube stands accused of censorship, following the company’s decision to bar former Congressman Ron Paul and his online news program from receiving advertising revenue for a number of videos which Paul recently posted.
Upon “manual review,” the website has found a series of videos posted by the Ron Paul Liberty Report “unsuitable for all advertisers,” effectively denying Paul and his online news program potential revenue from views.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange called it “economic censorship,” noting that the ‘unsuitable’ videos featured the former congressman’s criticism of president Donald Trump’s decision to send more American troops to Afghanistan, as well as criticizing the US Senate Intelligence Committee for terming Wikileaks a hostile foreign intelligence service last week.

Dr. Paul, a 12-term ex-congressman and three-time presidential candidate, is known for views that often contradict those of Washington’s political establishment, especially on issues of war and peace.

“We have no violence, no foul language, no political extremism, no hate or intolerance,” Daniel McAdams, co-producer of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, told RT America. “Our program is simply a news analysis discussion from a libertarian and antiwar perspective.”

McAdams, who also is executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, added that the YouTube demonetization “creates enormous financial burdens for the program.”

YouTube did not immediately respond to a request for comment on why it decided to exclude Paul’s videos from gaining advertising benefits.


However, the website’s guidelines say YouTube reserves the right to demonetize videos on “controversial issues and sensitive events,” further explaining that it could be “video content that features or focuses on sensitive topics or events including, but not limited to, war, political conflicts, terrorism or extremism, death and tragedies, sexual abuse, even if graphic imagery is not shown.”

YouTube has done the same to a number of political commentators. Most recently, those affected by the advert ban include left-wing online blogger Tim Black and right-wing commentator Paul Joseph Watson. Their videos have registered millions of views on the website.

“Demonetization is a deliberate effort to stamp out independent political commentary – from the left or the right,” Black told the Boston Globe’s Hiawatha Bray. “It’s not about specific videos... It’s about pushing out diversity of thought and uplifting major news networks such as CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.”



“YouTube needs to take a hard look at its own extreme political intolerance before preventing alternative, peaceful political views from being shared as advertising partners on its platform,” McAdams told RT America.

Video producers can appeal demonetization, a YouTube spokesperson told the Boston Globe.

“Many creators, including Diamond and Silk, have submitted and successfully won appeals.”

However, the Ron Paul Liberty Report was “not given answers but rather canned non-responses,” when the program asked for an explanation from YouTube, McAdams said.
 
It is very possible this is just the beginning. First they take away the monetary incentive. When people continue to make video's they ban the content all together.
 
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Question: Is there any point switching email providers or media hosts, while I'm still using a micro$oft os and comca$t for isp?
 
Schifference said:
We have all heard the argument about if this restaurant doesn't allow smoking and the restaurant across the street does then people will go where they want. This is supposed to be good for business. This seems like a golden opportunity for some other entity to come into play against youtube.
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Good luck with that since they control domain name registers and can deny your site a name, control the web hosts and deny your site access to the normal net, control the DDoS protection services and could keep your site dark even if they let you on, and control all the payment processors and can deny you access to the entire financial system.

Raginfridus said:
Question: Is there any point switching email providers or media hosts, while I'm still using a micro$oft os and comca$t for isp?
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Even Protonmail has joined in the censorship orgy, so there is literally nowhere to go even if you wanted to switch. Have to either Alt Tech to be built or the people that currently run Tech to be arrested and their property expropriated.
 
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Breitbart has a brief story about this. Breitbart never treated Ron Paul well when he was running for president, and Rand Paul was definitely not a favorite of their's when he was running for the nomination. So now - on the rare occasion that they do publish something non-negative about Ron Paul, I make a point of posting a comment to remind them of what stupid assholes they've been!

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/...etizes-videos-criticizing-afghanistan-policy/
YouTube Goes After Ron Paul, Demonetizes Videos Criticizing Afghanistan Policy
by CHARLIE NASH
28 Aug 2017

YouTube has reportedly demonetized a number of videos from former presidential candidate Ron Paul following an announcement that the company would be censoring the platform to an even greater degree.

In a screenshot posted on Twitter by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, several recent videos from Paul were shown to have reportedly been deemed “not suitable for advertisers” and were subsequently restricted.

The videos included: “Julian Assange to join us at Ron Paul Institute Conference 2017,” “Senate Declared War On Wikileaks – With Philip Giraldi,” “Pentagon Attacks Extremists At Home… But Finances Them Overseas,” “Trump’s ‘New’ Afghan Strategy: Protect The Empire,” and “Trump’s Afghanistan Strategy: What To Expect. With Jacob Hornberger.”...

http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/...etizes-videos-criticizing-afghanistan-policy/
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devil21 said:
See my sig. If they weren't cointelpro from the start, they have all been co-opted by now. The only answer is to stop participating in the tribal games. Don't pick sides. Stay on the side of truth, regardless of which side on any issue the truth falls on. They control each side and play them against each other. Opting out and staying true to pure truth-seeking is the only way to win.
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You've contradicted yourself. You say don't pick sides but pick the side of truth. It's not about picking sides, it's about fighting for the truth and principles that are dictated by your moral compass, your beliefs in the Constitutional Rights of yourself and others. Picking sides is senseless, you need to assert your voice while you can make an impression. We've always opted out. Only thing that gave us a voice for awhile was Ron Paul. At this point, opting out is death.
 
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