YouTube has reversed a short-lived ban of the digital station TalkRadio from its platform, about 12 hours after it removed the organisation’s channel for what it said were breaches of its community guidelines.
The station, part of Rupert Murdoch’s TalkSport network, said it had not been told by the platform what the most recent breach was. A TalkRadio spokesperson said: “We urgently await a detailed response from Google/YouTube about the nature of the breach that has led to our channel being removed from its platform." [...]
On Tuesday evening, the streaming platform broke its silence and reinstated TalkRadio’s account. “TalkRadio’s YouTube channel was briefly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated,” a YouTube spokesperson said. “We quickly remove flagged content that violate our Community Guidelines, including Covid-19 content that explicitly contradict expert consensus from local health authorities or the World Health Organization. We make exceptions for material posted with an educational, documentary, scientific or artistic purpose, as was deemed in this case.”
Blah, blah, blah...spare us your insufferable "terms and conditions" bullshit, YouTube. We all know why you deplatform channels. Because you're cunts who hate free speech. But in this case you really fucked up, as TalkRadio only exists to pretend to be a dissident channel and to siphon off dissident energy from genuine dissident channels and sites.
I know this because, before you made your shitty algorithms more Orwellian, I would get one true dissident channel after another -- all suggested by YouTube based on my previous viewing habits. But now, if I find a dissident channel that you haven't shut down yet, the next video up will be either Tucker Carlson, Jordan Peterson, or Talk Radio.
Yup, Talk Radio is the channel that YouTube actually sends you too when their algorithm detects that you are interested in "crimethink" and "hatefacts" so as to start what they hope will be your "deradicalization process." Unfortunately, in this case not all of YouTube's moronic staff got the memo, leading to this embarrassing mix up that was quickly fixed by a telephone call from Rupert Murdoch.
Yup, Talk Radio is the channel that YouTube actually sends you too when their algorithm detects that you are interested in "crimethink" and "hatefacts" so as to start what they hope will be your "deradicalization process." Unfortunately, in this case not all of YouTube's moronic staff got the memo, leading to this embarrassing mix up that was quickly fixed by a telephone call from Rupert Murdoch.
