Video Banning ... like book burning under the Nazi Regime
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I could watch the empire file's video from 2015 in which Abby Martin interviewed Max Blumenthal.
I also could watch this video:
Abby Martin interviews journalist and author Max Blumenthal on the current situation in Palestine
AMN is republishing this video due to it being severely limited on YouTube and outright blocked in 28 countries.
So, you can have a look at it.
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What a frigging mess the internet's oligarchs make it to be.
YouTube bans 28 countries from watching a video exposing Israel’s violence against protesters
Banned
YouTube, owned by Google, says that the internet platform banned the video in 28 countries because it violates “local laws”. Most of the countries YouTube has blocked from seeing the video are European. Elsewhere, YouTube has added a warning to the video and blocked all interactive features: YouTube bans 28 countries from watching a video exposing Israel’s violence against protesters
I wonder if German "local laws" prohibit us seeing those videos. What are German local laws doing?
‘Political decision’
Now, YouTube has censored the video. Blumenthal branded YouTube’s decision a “political one” and “likely made under pressure from powerful pro-Israel interests”. Since last year, the pro-Israel Anti-Defamation League has been a select contributing member of YouTube’s Trusted Flagger program. The Anti-Defamation League conflates opposition to Israeli violence with ‘opposition to Israel’s right to exist’. Blumenthal believes that the Anti-Defamation League is likely the root of the censorship of his interview with Martin.He continued:
The trend of censoring material that presents Israel in a less than favorable light has only intensified as establishment attacks on critical voices expands. This latest episode confirms my view that the pro-Israel lobby and its willing accomplices in Silicon Valley present one of the greatest threats to free speech in the West
No words, no comment. Just plain upset and disgusted.
Comments
If you aren't
upset and disgusted, you wouldn't be paying attention. None of this surprises me anymore, I think we have to let this disease run its course and hope it doesn't kill the host. Capitalism is more fatal than anything mother nature could come up with: and don't tell me climate change, because without capitalism, we wouldn't be experiencing climate change(or at least we'd be Doing something about it).
Keep your head up, mimi, and do the best you can with what you got. That's all we can do.
Stop These Fucking Wars
peace
Ya got to be a Spirit, cain't be no Ghost. . .
Explain Bldg #7. . . still waiting. . .
If you’ve ever wondered whether you would have complied in 1930’s Germany,
Now you know. . .
sign at protest march
Capitalism is eating young people alive.
And with the country hollowed out at this point, we have nothing to look forward to, except maybe automation of what's left for the benefit of the bourgeoisie.
Modern education is little more than toeing the line for the capitalist pigs.
Guerrilla Liberalism won't liberate the US or the world from the iron fist of capital.
I completely get why young people are the most righteous
Because we're creating a situation for them where they have nothing left to lose.
Beware the bullshit factories.
seriously, nothing to gain in the first place
end up fighting neither for nor against, just fighting for the pure hell of it.
Fighting to solve the life and death issues
Before it's too late and the kids and planet are SOL.
Beware the bullshit factories.
and channel that energy into solutions
fighting to achieve an even chance
I think they recognize the biggest challenge
Getting money out of politics and information. The NRA symbolizes that.
Beware the bullshit factories.
I keep thinking on
an anecdotal unified field theory on capitalism. Mainly trying to parse how over the centuries we've been "bred" to capitalism, along the lines of someone who has never known a different system would be unable to even see the reach into that persons life. How every choice, in some aspect, must take capitalism into the decision. Also, why every economic theory, except socialism, leaves out it's fundamental ability, and sometimes need, to damage peoples lives and the symbiosis it has with government.
The power of Capitalism
I was chatting with some folks the other day and somehow the subject of "What is the most powerful force on earth?" came up. Everyone agreed that nuclear power/weapons was the most powerful force. Everyone agreed but me, that is. I disagreed, holding fast that Capitalism was far more powerful than even nukes. My argument was very similar to your statement. In the end, everyone - some grudgingly - agreed with me.
Pretty soon
we won't even know the videos were banned, or existed
Homeland Security To Compile A Database Of Journalists, Bloggers And Influencers
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homeland-security-searchable-databa...
Interesting, or should I say, unsettling. Thanks Snode.
I have a real aversion to former RW zealot, multimillionaire Ariana's Neoliberal plantation farm for writers. Like with TOP I refuse to give them clicks.
It's like 9/11 all over again. Shock Doctrine stuff for absolute, totalitarian control over the population. I'm so contemptuous of the people falling for all this bullshit which is now allowing these dystopian witch-hunts to commence.
Would you mind excerpting some bits from or summarizing the article?
And thanks for bringing this to our attention, mimi. Hard to believe the threatening power the fascist Israeli gov't wields over so much, thanks mostly to our pathetic pandering to them.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
You mean like
"Word got out after Bloomberg Law surfaced a job posting from DHS seeking a contractor for a “media monitoring services” project. The job entails creating a searchable database that has the ability to track about 290,000 news sources, both foreign and domestic, according to the DHS’s statement of work."
"....... Houlton maintains that the database of journalists is “standard practice of monitoring current events” and suggests that those suspicious of its purpose are “tin foil hat wearing, black helicopter conspiracy theorists.”
Houlton did not respond to HuffPost’s follow-up questions on whether a similar database had already existed within the Department of Homeland Security and what the agency intends to do with the information."
"PR agencies and communication firms often keep their own databases of journalists and various media outlets, with notes for each. PR professionals also often use programs that track how their clients are being discussed in the media."
Don't know if I quoted too much, but it was pretty much, "Yeah, we're doing it, nothing to see, move along, everybody does it, trust us, some lady from the Brookings Institute,
everything perfectly normal.
Between private, commercial and government databases we've been screwed for a long time since everybody sells info to each other.
Original here:
Bloomberg Law
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Thanks for the links/summation, guys.
@Snode
Best of the Left podcast had a couple of good segments on this too:
Micah Sifry on Facebook - Start Making Sense from @TheNation - Air Date 3-28-18
NPR's On The Media: The Facebook Alarm Bells Have Been Ringing For Years
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
It's not enough that probably thousands of various facilities
and small contractors are busily listening to/watching everything we do, while it's all recorded and stored for posterity - there is never an 'enough' for the psychopathic obsessive, as long as anyone else might have anything at all, even an opinion they don't like...
Right, Homeland Security is just like a PR firm, only with the ability to make people disappear.
What are these 'rebranding tools'? Some means of 'Correcting the Record' by overwriting/erasing anything they don't want the public to know about?
Is anyone really incapable of seeing how sick this is?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
It's not banned here.
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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
There's supposed be gas attacks in eastern Ghouta now
but photos released show the EMS workers without gas masks. This appears to be more fake news as preparation for a US intervention, just in time for John Bolton to take office.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."