Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
“Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies,” a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
“YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community.”
Explosive Media’s content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
Is this like when we banned the Chinese electric cars because we dont feel like competing anymore?
Or women athletes because they were better at certain sports
They learned their lesson from this and Huawei, so now private companies are self censoring on behalf of the govt. That’s why Colbert is losing his job and cutting edge Chinese phones don’t work on American carriers despite being fully compatible.
Ehy Google, what about the anti-vaxers, fake-moon-landing, qanon channels, and similar shit?
Remove Youtube
Every American company is loyal to the empire. If not by gleeful obedience then at least by threat of court orders and political pressure. I guess in Google’s case it’s that kind of gleeful obedience.
“YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community.”
- Bullsh*t it doesn’t and
- Which one of those categories does an obvious satire / parody channel fall under?
deleted by creator
Sucking on boots
I’m not surprised, but those videos were pretty fucking funny
Hey Google, fuck off.
They are welcome to join the fediverse and put videos on peertube, odysse, bitchute, kick, whatever.
Put them up on peertube.
It’d be so great if we could use Peertube as a “hosting provider” for Lemmy videos
I just want to be able to add PeerTube channels on my Lemmy feed. Unified ActivityPub protocol, my ass.
Its propaganda sure, but they didn’t even need to lie in the lyrics. Is it still propaganda if true? Looks more like satire to me.
Oh they did lie, but not about America. They lied about Iran.
Okay but link to the vids?
That was bloody neat. And I say that as someone who normally hates rap.
I listened to it all the way through.
Although the music isn’t my usual thing, whoever made that is very clever. There’s so much small detail going on there. Brilliant sense of humour. And very talented.
I’d love to his reaction after watching one.
Instasaved!
Dailymotiom is french so I had hoped that anyone wanting to watch them could just go there. However, I don’t see most of the videos in question there.
Looks like the videos exist on this Russian video hosting site: https://m.vkvideo.ru/?q=Lego+trump&action=search
Always has been…
