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3 Feb, 17 tweets, 7 min read
YouTube Financially Deplatforms Swath Of Indie Media Accounts

YouTube has demonetized progressive commentators @grahamelwood, @theProgSoapbox, @theconvocouch and @B43Franco, as well as freelancer @FordFischer who films US political demonstrations.
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The Google-owned video sharing platform YouTube has demonetized numerous independent media accounts, a jarring escalation in the steadily intensifying campaign against alternative news outlets online.
No explanation has been offered for this decision beyond the vague claim that "your channel is not in line with our YouTube Partner Program policies" due to "harmful content".
Like all large online platforms, YouTube's appeals process is notoriously opaque and unaccountable. These accounts could remain demonetized for months, or forever, without any clear explanation at all.
Nobody receiving these notifications appears to have any idea what is meant by "harmful" or "controversial" or why YouTube is mentioning them in the same breath as though these two things are connected or synonymous in some way.
Speaking for myself, I can say with absolute certainty that I would not be able to create content at anywhere near the pace I do were I not making enough money from it to do it full time.
Financial deplatforming is censorship.
The general population is increasingly herded onto monopolistic platforms offering a place where your voice can be heard, and then those platforms proceed to censor an increasing amount of political speech in increasing coordination with the US government.
If the democratization of information online is successfully reversed and the mass media gatekeepers are again the sole authorities on what's real and true, people will be locked into forming their ideas on how to think, act and vote based on what they are told by the MSM:
If the door is locked to the possibility of a grassroots information rebellion against the narrative hegemony of our rulers, we will remain doomed to continue along the same ecocidal, omnicidal trajectory these bastards have us on until it reaches its inevitable conclusion.
Another one.
Another one. There are probably a lot more I don't know about. I'll just keep updating this thread as I become aware of them.
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YouTube has demonetized @grahamelwood, @theProgSoapbox, @theconvocouch and @FordFischer, for entirely unspecified reasons. The appeals process is entirely opaque and unaccountable. They could be left demonetized for months, or forever, with no explanation.
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