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Youtubers tribute to 9/11 firefighters censored..your thoughts?

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
2 days ago (edited)
The censors at Google have deemed a tribute to firefighters on 9/11 to be "too controversial" to monetize. YouTube and Google have consistently failed to clarify or consistently apply the "Controversial issues and sensitive events" section of the "Advertiser-friendly content guidelines," creating a standard that irrationally punishes channels that cover history. If you think this decision is as egregious as I do, and realize how difficult Google makes it to register a complaint, then please feel free to address a complaint to Mr Sundar Patchi, the CEO of Google, at sundar@google.com. Please keep your comments respectful, but let him know your opinion.

Source:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4sEmXUuWIFlxRIFBRV6VXQ/community
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curiosi · 61-69, F
Very sad, but not at all surprising. Omar was on one of the political talk shows this morning defending her comments and making it all about her. That's what is important these days, not the citizens of America but those who wish to fundementally change it.
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bookerdana · M
@curiosi I'm writing Patchi,though I doubt he'll read it,its all about the algorithm with no common sense.How Could that video offend anybody? @pismo
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SW-User
Youtube regularly demonitorise video's from popular channels that they don't agree with giving the reason that it's a sensitive issue which apparently is just any video that they don't like.
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bookerdana · M
@SW-User Too bad there really isn't an alternative,this is a particularly egregious error!
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SW-User
@bookerdana I agree, i wish youtube had an alternative to give them some competition. Even as an end user it's very frustrating.
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SW-User
Even hitler is upset with what youtube are doing now.. it's having repercussions across the space-time continuum :o

[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFZYiqS2u2o]
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bookerdana · M
@SW-User It was up for a while,II can't find it now though it might be hiding among the hundreds of Hitler rants parodiees
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SW-User
@bookerdana That would have been funny to see. The guy that does these Hitler Rants Paradies has done some funny work. He's covered US elections, Brexit, sport, iphone releases, video game reviews. It's my go-to place for news 😂
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bookerdana · M
@SW-User It actually was done by an EPer and (Who knows?) Maybe its still there,hiding😂
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
I don't know, I didn't see it but if it was one of those videos peddling racism and conspiracies from alt righters then YouTube did a fine job.

On the other hand if it was just a tribute then no the site wasn't in the right.
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bookerdana · M
@SatanBurger It was the latter
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Peaches · F
It's getting bad on YouTube with the censoring now.😔Something much deeper is happening, our freedom of speech is slowly being stripped away?!
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SW-User
@Peaches Youtube are the worst when it comes to censoring. If they don't like something for any reason, it will either be removed or they will demonitorise it which seems to be coming more common.
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Peaches · F
@SW-User They never used to, I'd venture to say it's gonna start happening in other places too.
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bookerdana · M
@Peaches Especially as other news sources are dying,ie Newspapers and television is run only for the profit (they actually ran at a loss through the early seventies because they took pride in their news divisions. Plus there are those who don't want you to hear the truth. Let me suggest a rather heavy video,also demonetized
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t13R6ej-WQ]

Just a suggestion🙃
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SW-User
I think it's past time for people to branch out to other platforms.
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bookerdana · M
@SW-User I subscribe to a channel called the "Hated One"the ,someone suggested moving his content to the "PornHub"
THO said that wasn't such a bad idea as they had the space and were "searchable"😂
They'd just have to separate/quarantine regular content!
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SW-User
@bookerdana Weird. Could you imagine if a porn site got taken over by people who weren't there to post porn?
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bookerdana · M
@SW-User The idea was that they would set up a separate site;their new space and acumen making a site searchable might make it feasible😃
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
Ah I looked it up, apparently youtube wanted to make 9/11 conspiratards, flat earthers, miracle cures and anti vaccine morons more harder to find.

Good job YouTube.
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@bookerdana He got his video back so most likely it was an error in the algorithm that was set to combat the millions of extreme racists using that platform to recruit.

Something triggered the deletion automatically but that doesn't mean he didn't get his video back.
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bookerdana · M
@SatanBurger He usually doesn't accept advertising but evidently a firm called Magellan tv rode to the rescue.It didn't hurt that so many people emailed Patchi, as I did. The firefighter video was not showiing when I made my post though its marked "4 days ago"
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bookerdana · M
@bookerdana and its still not up only a generic history of firefighting..from the video comments:

The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
The History Guy: History Deserves to Be Remembered
3 days ago (edited)
In what can only be called the worst decision in the history of decisions, the censors at Google have deemed a tribute to firefighters on 9/11 to be "too controversial" to monetize. If you think this decision is as egregious as I do, and realize how difficult Google makes it to register a complaint, please address your email to Mr Sundar Patchi, the CEO of Google, at sundar@google.com. Please keep your comments respectful, but let him know your opinion.
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Peaches · F
Watch this video and you'll get an idea of what's happening behind the certain so to speak....https://similarworlds.com/7834362-I-Find-Conspiracy-Theories-Interesting/2775495-Ive-started-reading-to-get-information-that-is
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revenant · F
Perhaps afraid of the conspiracy theories that it was an inside job
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bookerdana · M
@revenant This guy only does History,very straight forward besides the Zeitgeist movie is still up in SD and you can PAY Google for HD😂
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revenant · F
@bookerdana google can;;;please google do not be evil 🤯
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bookerdana · M
@revenant Like asking the devil to "play nice!"😝
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SW-User
Time for a NewTube
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bookerdana · M
@SW-User YES but there really are no viable contenders right now,even though a viable alternative would make its creators a LOT of money
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SW-User
@bookerdana surely one must come
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bookerdana · M
@SW-User One can only hope,the creators are universally unhappy
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SW-User
What a shame. That's Youtube for you.
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bijouxbroussard · F
I’m trying to imagine how Google could have possibly assessed such horrible sacrifices made on such a tragic day as too controversial to address honestly. 😞
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bookerdana · M
@bijouxbroussard That channel is one of my favorites,relatively short informative history but Google doesn't care one whit,a computer algorithm makes the call. Small channels suffer no matter how good their content
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SatanBurger · 36-40, F
@bijouxbroussard It had to do with the algorithm. I bet he'll get his video back up because most likely it's an error in things being automated.

Youtube has to find ways to combat extremism because morons like 9/11 truthers, flat earthers and others are breeding grounds for recruitment into far right extremist groups.

There was news talking about how groups are actively recruiting and one of them is YouTube.

So YouTube since like 2015 has been actively trying to make those videos a bit harder to find.
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