If you follow Counterjihad writers or blogs you probably are
aware of the Vlad
Tepes blog. (As an aside
named for Vlad the Impaler who became the
model for the Dracula legends but historically brutally resisted the brutality
of Muslim Ottomans [Turkey] conquest and Islamization of Europe. What made Vlad
notorious is he distributed brutality for Muslim brutality.)
The Vlad Tepes blog tends to focus on the actions of Islam (often
reported as radical Islam) in Europe, but the blog occasionally takes a look
elsewhere. Since the major Social Media platforms have been running Anti-Conservative/Anti-Counterjihad
campaigns, the Vlad Tepes blog has become one of their targets by censoring
Free Speech.
Counterjihadist Paul Sutliff has posted about Youtube
censorship of the Vlad Tepes blog with screenshot examples and BitTube links to evaluate
for yourself if the Vlad Tepes blog deserves censorship.
JRH 3/20/19
Your generosity is always appreciated:
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YouTube Censors Anti-Jihadist News Source - Vlad
TepesBlog
By Paul Sutliff
March 19, 2019
In the beginning of February a coordinated reporting
campaign against the YouTube channel of Vlad TepesBlog began. Simple
examination of the filed complaints reveals the idiocy of the reporting. Vlad
TepesBlog shared a few of the hundreds of their videos that were suddenly
reported within a week. The vast majority of what was on Vlad
TepesBlog’s YouTube channel were news reports from foreign countries subtitled
into English. Below are two examples of YouTube’s response to the reporting sent
to Vlad TepesBlog.
View here judge for yourself if this deserves an Adult
Rating: https://bit.tube/play?hash=QmSmFBVZ8TkkLxj3EoWm1bF96P1e1tGEojpWstC8kzYpSA&channel=251530
View here judge for yourself if this deserves an Adult
Rating: https://bit.tube/play?hash=QmSomHDJakfvxdqeuvGoE4CQA9JAcraeydVYNKt9TnosaK&channel=251530
Is Google Politicizing viewership and subscriber numbers?
Vlad TepesBlog’s YouTube Channel had over 30,000
subscribers. Their videos were not monetized as the goal was to get the
truth out and not have it be thought that income would sway what was shared.
One of Vlad Tepes Blog’s subscribers wrote to them that they were under attack
by Google, because his subscription count was not increasing and appeared
frozen. It became a talking point for months when the number was approximately
24,xxx for a few weeks. It then shot up to 30,000 within 6 weeks. Having posted
several hundred videos Vlad TepesBlog had other concerns that YouTube was
adjusting the viewership statistics.
Tested
Vlad TepesBlog works with Gates of Vienna sometimes. In this
case he embedded his videos on the Gates of Vienna with YouTube videos averaging
a daily viewership at YouTube of between 600 to 1600 views per day. Sometimes
they might get as high as 3,000 to 4,000. This encouraged further curiosity at
statistical manipulation by YouTube/Google. So Vlad TepesBlog did some work
with Freezoxee.com a place he had ZERO subscribers, unlike YouTube where he had
accumulated 30,000+. So the only people who saw the video were people who saw
the social media ties to the site.
There were 15,000 to 30,000 views which over a several days.
Vlad TepesBlog states that this count far exceeded the amount of viewers
YouTube was reporting for the hundreds of videos on his channel over the same
period time.
The frozen subscription count plus the low viewership counts
made Vlad wonder if they are concerned about his actual influence. Influence?
Yes! When a channel gets a lot of attention YouTube promotes it in various
ways. Even individual videos get promoted due to high viewership. So was the
attempt purposeful to limit their influence hence stopping videos from going
viral?
Congressional leadership prior to the Democratic takeover of
the House was pursuing a look into flagrant First amendment violations of these
Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for directly limiting
the influence of persons who are Conservative and/or Anti-Jihadists.
Sadly, the mass reporting of VladTepesBlog and the forced
closure of its channel show a huge flaw in the security measures of YouTube,
and other Social Media platforms. That being the evident lack of
Due Process.
Due Process is what protects a person from false accusations
and usually ferrets outs liars in a timely fashion. YouTube accepted complaints
that videos with no violence or sexual themes should now be labeled and require
age verification to view adult content. This implies that your daily news feed
according to YouTube should be labeled Adult Content. This means no
comments can be seen or written.
The worst problem here is that NO HUMAN CONTACT is possible!
You can only appeal a decision with a form response that may or may not be read
by a human.
Important Questions for YouTube
Are bots all that reviews complaints? Are there security
measures in place to address mass reporting? What is the process of
review for an actual complaint before a label of Adult Content is applied? What
happens if a reviewer shows bias or incompetence when reviewing content?
YouTube Does NOT CONSISTENTLY close Hate Channels
Social Media giants seem set on controlling messages to
their platform. YouTube has been caught hosting content that promotes
Anti-Semitism under the guise that it is Islamic. The Middle East Media Research Institute has caught several videos on
YouTube and noted the names of the persons and the organizations posting
Anti-Semitic content under these circumstances. Persons with platforms that
have been exposed by MEMRI include Zafar Bangash,
who leads the Institute of Contemporary Islamic Thought (ICIT). ICIT has a
YouTube Channel called the ICIT Digital Library.
Perhaps YouTube thinks this is acceptable because this
channel only has 4,562 subscribers?
MEMRI also exposed Sheikh Omar Baloch.
His promotion of Islamic Relief should be enough of a concern to remove his YouTube
Channel. The Middle East Forum’s extensive expose of
Islamic Relief’s connections to known terror entities and persons
is more than enough to post a flagged warning of adult content! But as you can
see Sheikh Omar Baloch’s channel still exists.
There are far too many examples of this non-censorship of
channels sponsored by persons connected to Anti-Semitism and Jihadi terrorism.
You have to ask how Google aka YouTube finds reason to
justify keeping content that is connected to Anti-Semitism and terrorism, AND
how are news feeds subtitled into English deemed offensive at all!
Yet YouTube claims it catches most of the
hate and terror videos. It hosted Islamic State videos that the
government had to request be taken down! Yet their own content reviewers seem
to target persons who have influence and are sharing actual News coverage simply
because the content reveals unpopular truths?
This past December YouTube made the news after
closing 1.67 million channels and all of the 50.2 million videos associated
with them. According to Reuters, YouTube claimed, “Nearly 80 percent of the
channel takedowns [were] related to spam uploads. About 13 percent concerned
nudity, and 4.5 percent child safety.”
Final Thoughts
Are we to believe news is now to be counted in the same
category as spam, nudity, and child safety issues? But Anti-Semitic speech is
protected if it is Muslim?
Let’s not forget the monetary value of good will. It doesn’t
matter that Vlad TepesBlog was not asking for income. What matters was his
influence grew because he was respected. That respect earned him a high
subscription rate and a total viewership of all 1600+ videos in the millions.
Vlad TepesBlog considers the action of closing their channel a fraud. The work
portrayed was not porn, it was not a safety concern, it did not violate
community standards, so the shutdown of his channel was an act of fraud.
While a formal apology and restoration of all the work of
Vlad TepesBlog would be considered a good business strategy for YouTube, versus
a lawsuit for alleging that news which was subtitled needed an Adult content
rating.
Vlad TepesBlog now posts their work at http://Bit.Tube.
They ask that you sign up and subscribe to their Channel
here. Vlad TepesBlog continues to not ask for any monetary
assistance. They only want you to have the truth and subscribing to their work
helps them to get the word out!
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Minor Editing by John R. Houk (via spellcheck)
© Paul Sutliff
Civilization
Jihad Awareness with Paul Sutliff on
Blog Talk Radio/Global Patriot Radio
Paul Sutliff: BA Religion and
Philosophy from Roberts Wesleyan College, MSED from Nazareth College of
Rochester, and a Graduate Certificate in Intelligence Analysis from
Henley-Putnam School of Strategic Security at North American University.
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