YouTube
has begun purging its popular video hosting platform of channels that
challenge the narrative coming out of the mainstream news media across a
wide spectrum of topics. This has led to outright terminations and
strikes against some of the more popular channels, which have been
exhorting viewers to question the conventional news narrative.
These
channels have been accused to be participating in hate speech or
bullying due to them vigorously addressing controversial topics,
transgressing norms of political correctness, or exploring evidence that
some national tragedies may have been false flag attacks. Among the
topics that appear to have attracted the attention of YouTube censors
are disclosures by QAnon, which allegedly involves information released
by covert U.S. Army Intelligence operatives.
The YouTube
video purge not only has grave implications for free speech, but can
also seriously impact on the prospects for full disclosure of secret
space programs, UFO’s, and the advanced technologies and hidden
intelligence behind these.
These
subjects have been successfully kept secret for decades due to
mainstream media either ignoring or ridiculing their seriousness, or by
removing journalists from their positions for covering them. I found
this out first hand as a “citizen journalist” for the Examiner.com
online newspaper where I had over 50 million pages views for over 300 articles written from 2009 to 2015.
All my
content was summarily removed when a new editorial policy was adopted
where “exopolitics” and many other alternative news topics were no
longer considered legitimate news. Hundreds of citizen journalists
writing highly popular blog articles were dismissed without any appeal
process. All this badly backfired on the Examiner which by July 2016 was
forced to shut down.
It’s no surprise then that the CIA has been found to have compromised media organizations
in order to shape the mainstream media narrative. I would not be
surprised that the Examiner had been similarly compromised. Therefore,
any attempt to suppress alternative media sources that challenge
mainstream news is a threat to full disclosure.
YouTube, owned by Google, has very recently begun using an army of 10,000 moderators
to police the thousands of videos uploaded to its platform on a daily
basis. In addition, progressive liberal organizations such as the
Southern Poverty Law Center are being used as “Trusted Flaggers” which target YouTube users that vigorously challenge the mainstream news narrative.
Strikes are issued by the moderators and/or flaggers with only a very brief reference to the category of the YouTube community guidelines
that has been allegedly transgressed. s No detailed explanation is
given for the strike nor is the individual moderator(s) or organization
behind the strike identified.
Among the first YouTube channels to be terminated under their three strikes policy was the Richie Allen Show on February 22, which had over 76,000 subscribers and 1,400 videos. Jordan Sather’s Destroying the Illusion channel was terminated on February 26 (120,000 subscribers), as was Jerome Corsi’s channel (34,000 subscribers) on March 1. Strikes were also given to Alex Jones/Infowars ( 2.3 million subscribers and 33,000 videos), Mark Dice (1.2 million subscribers) and a growing list of others.
[Update 3/4/18] On late Saturday night, Alex Jones reported that YouTube was poised to delete his channel:
When
challenged, some of the strikes have been reversed, and channels
restored as occurred with Corsi, who received White House support from
back channel discussions. Interestingly, both Corsi and Sather were
giving a lot of coverage to the QAnon disclosures.
Officials linked to QAnon may have even stepped in to save Corsi’s channel. Sather instead has created a replacement YouTube channel called Destroying the Illusion 2.0., where he plans to continue examining the QAnon material, secret space programs and many other topics.
The long-term
prospects for YouTube channels and news sites challenging mainstream
media narratives does not look good due to the moderators and flaggers
actively posting strikes against many channels challenging mainstream
news narratives.
YouTube,
Twitter and Facebook are at different stages in downgrading, hiding
and/or terminating alternative media sites in a transparent and
foolhardy effort to get people to buy back into the mainstream media
narrative on topical issues.
YouTube,
along with Twitter and Facebook, are destined to fail since there is a
growing social movement that simply doesn’t trust the mainstream news
narrative, which many believe is hopelessly compromised by Deep State
actors such as the CIA.
This is a
phenomenon that is not going to be reversed during the Trump
administration given the highly partisan nature of American politics,
and the rapid growth in the popularity of the QAnon revelations which
are being followed by as many as 20 million people (Q post 809).
What YouTube,
Twitter and Facebook are doing is only highlighting how they have been
compromised by individuals and groups that have a vested interest in
hiding the machinations of the Deep State, and covering up the truth on
an extensive number of topics.
In the
meantime, it would be wise for individuals to support alternative media
by directly visiting the websites of content providers, which are not
controlled by YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Subscribe to RSS feeds,
email lists, etc., of your favorite sites, and don’t become too
dependent on social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter and
Facebook, which are only going to continue to terminate accounts of
those not supporting the mainstream media narrative. Here is a list of alternative social media platforms that don’t censor posters.
In the case
of information concerning secret space programs and “exopolitics” I
recommend subscribing to the RSS and email feeds of exopolitics.org which is my personal site, or exonews.org which hosts a diverse collection of exopolitics authors, and stories from around the internet.
As far as the
YouTube purge of channels promoting the QAnon information, the quick
reinstatement of the Corsi channel after possible White House
intervention raises hopes that this new policy direction may similarly
backfire on YouTube and Google, as it did for Examiner.com back in 2016.
The threat
posed by the YouTube purge is very real and preemptive steps need to be
taken by all who value alternative news perspectives, and desire social
media to be an effective means of promoting full disclosure.
© Michael E. Salla, Ph.D.
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