Posted on 08/27/2017 5:56:23 PM PDT by ptsal
Former US Congressman Ron Paul has joined a growing list of independent political journalists and commentators who’re being economically punished by YouTube despite producing videos that routinely receive hundreds of thousands of views.
**snip** The notion that YouTube would want to economically punish a former US Congressman for sharing his views on US foreign policy – a topic that he is unequivocally qualified to speak about – is absurd. Furthermore, *the “review requested” marking on one of Paul's videos reveals that they were initially flagged by users before YouTube's moderators confirmed that the videos were unsuitable for a broad audience.*
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Censoring and blacklisting demonitizing is not socially acceptable.
Time for them to be broken up and regulated like a utility. It sucks but its all they fear. The phone company wouldn’t be allowed to refuse service to conservatives, these clowns are pushing for an all government, all leftist, all globalist internet.
Google denies such practice as censorship, but it’s OK for their subsidiary. /S
Isn’t there a Conservative version of youtube? What would it take to start one? I’ll chip in.
Allow them to carry on with this ‘censorship’
Declare them a de facto monopoly
Confiscate their code
Start a competitor
PROBLEM SOLVED
Isn’t there a Conservative version of youtube?
Truly Free Speech.
DOJ will get right on it............. as soon as AG Sessions awakes from his nap.
Time for DOJ to begin enforcing anti-trust laws against Google, Amazon, Facebook.
But alas, little Jeffie sessions wants a third trial against the Bundys’ and civil asset forfeiture. Rule of law must be enforced against the peasants.
Although this is infuriating, especially given previous “progressive” free speech claims, it is a blessing in disguise.
It was always dangerous to become dependent on communication platforms controlled by the enemy.
In the event of a social uprising, silicon valley and the deep state had the potential to shut down social media platforms, or close them to “non-progressives”.
Silicon valley bias is driving the creation of an entirely alternative set of electronic platforms. They start with Hatreon instead of Patreon. MINDS instead of Twitter and FB. Vidme and MINDS for YouTube. DuckDuckgo for Google.
Get off FB, TWTR, GOOG... etc and defund the left !
Meh.
After the ‘90 -’91 war Wrong Paul made a tour of the morning talk shows expounding on his view that the use of armored bulldozers and tanks with plow attachments to bury entrenched positions (instead of what? Jumping in go fight it out with K-Bars and bayonets? ) constituted war crimes.
I have no use for that stinking turd, and if someone somewhere treats him unfairly well, Karma happens.
You'll know "karma" MrEdd, if they censor you.
Not really.
It takes a really sh!tty scumbag to side with muslim soldiers over our own trooos in combat.
Wrong Paul went there and somehow he always finds islamist dirtbags to side with him.
There's something that they would fear much, much more than that — if they were at all aware of the possibility, that is — precisely because it would eviscerate tons of their properties instantaneously, and all it involves actually following the Constitution.
The name of the asset-class is intellectual property
and it's a big business; so big that there are corporations that generate all their income via patent lawsuits in a practice called patent trolling, but the big secret is that they (Google, MS, IBM, Disney, etc), as a corporation, have absolutely zero legal right to any of it by virtue of being a corporation.
You see the Constitution empowers Congress the power to pass legislation for patent and copyright with the following clause from Article 1, Section 8: To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries
. Notice that the power is for securing exclusive rights (that is the patent/copyright itself) to the "Inventor" or "Author", not any other person — not the "author's estate", not the "author's publisher", not the "inventor's commissioner" but only the Author/Inventor.
Yes, we all know about corporations are people
— it doesn't matter — the congress is not empowered to extend the powers/protections of copyright/patent to anyone but the actual author/inventor and the corporation cannot be an author or inventor: the most it can do is direct its employees to write or invent on its behalf, a practice traditionally referred to as commissioning a work
— and the commissioner is NOT the creator of said work.
Now, imagine for an instant if the Patent Office applied the above reasoning to extant patents, invalidating all patents not held by the actual inventor.
asset forfeiture.
FTFY.
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