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YouTube Suspends Account of Popular Chinese Dissident (freebeacon.com)
schwit1 brings news about an exiled Chinese billionaire with 500,000 followers on YouTube. The Washington Free Beacon reports:YouTube has suspended the video account of popular Chinese dissident Guo Wengui amid a mounting pressure from the Beijing government to silence one of its critics. According to a person familiar with the action, YouTube issued what the company calls a 'strike' against Guo, who since the beginning of the year has created an online sensation by posting lengthy videos in which he reveals details of corruption by senior Chinese officials. The suspension involves a 90-day block on any new live-stream postings of videos and was the result of a complaint made against a recent Guo video for alleged harassment. The identity of the person or institution who issued the complaint could not be learned... Other videos by Guo posted prior to the suspension remain accessible.
The suspension coincides with this week's once-every-five-years congress of the Chinese Communist party to reveal which top officials will serve President Xi Jinping, according to Financial Times, adding that "China's choreographed politics is not designed for public participation or questioning."
The suspension coincides with this week's once-every-five-years congress of the Chinese Communist party to reveal which top officials will serve President Xi Jinping, according to Financial Times, adding that "China's choreographed politics is not designed for public participation or questioning."
...I, for one, welcome our Chinese internet overlords.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Enough said!
YouTube is a monopoly because The People want a monopoly. YouTube is not to blame. You The People chose this situation. You The People are pure evil.
You are the problem.
YOU ARE THE PROBLEM.
YOU. ARE. THE. PROBLEM.
he's a billionaire (or close to it), with questionable sources of his money, currently living in a Manhattan penthouse. I'd characterise him as someone with an ongoing dispute with the current government of China, who used to NOT have any dispute with them (hence his having a lot of money with hard to explain origins). I would not categorise him together with the people under house arrest, or dying because they were not allowed to consult doctors, or otherwise "disappeared".
You knew it was only a matter of time.
5 out of 6 people enjoy Russian Roulette & 6 out of 7 Dwarfs are not Happy
Seems like China is really going out of it's way to clamp down on dissidents, even going as far as to silence people on platforms that aren't even accessible in the country. Sounds to me like it's mostly a wasted effort that only emboldens the person being persecuted and his mostly foreign and expat followers. Then again if you how the remember the Tiananmen Square protests* ended or what they've been doing to Falun Gong followers** this this probably isn't even close to China going all out in stamping something out.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Why should I want to make anything up? Life's bad enough as it is without wanting to invent any more of it."
He should fucking LOVE his country or get in line with all of the NFL assholes here in the US and get his ass kicked! Nationalism over free speech!
Don't settle for being merely evil!
To think capitalism is compatible with democracy in the long run is simply foolish. Any company doing "good" eventually figures, that Chinese market is very big and very important, spying on Assange is necessary, donating millions to Republicans is unfortunate but good idea, etc. Also, power of capitalism is also so big, it can easily crush any rebellion, see Occupy case as an example. Both democracy and poor chinese guy are doomed anyway, as Google figured out.
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It's pretty clear that YouTube's parent company lacks experience dealing with communist countries. Perhaps Page or Brin should read a book about them.
Any size government cock, any oppression of people they can get behind. They love the statist meat.
Except for the Chinese government, then its about power.
Thank god for the Streisand effect. I never would have known about this guy, and I'm sure I'm just one of many millions.
(oh, and, fuck google)
US does the same thing for 'controversial' discussions that place the US Government in a bad light (well, back when the people *CARED* if the USG was presenting itself as good or bad and honest or corrupt.)
The difference is, most of our elected officials are just bought errand-boys for moneyed interests. Usually moneyed interests that have made donations to either side, so that even if their 'prime' candidate loses, they still have some influence, even if diminished, over the candidate's votes than if they threw all their money behind one candidate or the other.
The reason American politics isn't treated like Chinese politics is because our corruption is at a different level, and while our president might be 'like a king' with some exceptions, he is not equated to an emperor with the mandate of heaven, which for many in China the president of the country is still seen as akin to, despite over a hundred years without an Emperor. For the chinese one corrupt regime simply replaced another and all regimes corrupt over time. Until and unless the government completely fucks up, or there is a natural disaster big enough to be seen as a sign from the gods that the current government's 'mandate of heaven' has been revoked, it is unlikely that a major revolution will sweep through the people there for now.
Capitalism? Freedom of speech? Freedom after speech?
All the best protections a nation like the USA can offer, protect and support...
What does a US big brand do?
Work extra hard to embrace and side with Communism and China.
Is this what the internet and "social media" will look like? Communist parties tracking any content globally?
US brands comply with removing free speech?
What will be banned next?
Tiananmen square? 4 June 1989?
Tank Man https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
No more terms like Flower of Freedom? Goddess of Democracy? Operation Yellowbird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., River elegy?
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Money = Power.
This happened once before when Jordan B. Peterson lost not only his YouTube account, but also his Gmail account.
The tech sector talks big about human rights, but they do business with some of the worst offenders in the world.
A lot can be said about the character of the person Guo Wengui if you look into it. Although to call him a bad guy, you have to read too much into it. None of us are all good. At the end of the day, he is a hero among the Chinese for valid reasons. Google\YouTube's pick-and-choose who gets banned, demonetized, or just plain buried because our algorithms aren't good enough so we have our Sjw's on the case mentality is only supported by them being a private company, and a total and complete monopoly. Google, as an extremists ultra far left company is taking advantage of their position in so many disgusting ways.YouTube's great potential has been squandered by Google, a company that somehow manages to maintain an average employee age of 29 and values enforced "diversity" above results and hard word, not to mention above lucid,objective thinking. For fucks sake, at Google, they have a weekly microaggression newsletter that they then have meetings about.
Google is already a bunch of commies. So it's no wonder.
Ironically a YouTube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Their biggest problem right now, is how to eliminate all ideology opposed to their ultra far left SJW culture, without losing 3/4 of their subscribers.
More: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I can't even find any videos exposing YouTube through Earnest Pettie, and the full length is about as damning as can be.
"Do No Evil" has become highly subjective at Google\YouTube\Alphabet. I predict that within a decade, Alphabet will prove to be the next big company too big to fail. When it happens, it will happen fast.
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Google feels Guo is an extreme right-wing white nationalist who is spewing racist anti-chinese hate speech. Guo had better be on the lookout for Antifa (aka the Red Guard).
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
Unless it threatens the bottom line.
-- Will program for bandwidth
talk to me when our government calls China out on their worker abuse. Or hell, anyone outside if the left wing press does. Both Mitt Romney and Steve Jobs were once caught talking about how happy they were to be able to work the Chines 16 hours a day for peanuts and I've never once heard them called out on that by anyone who mattered.
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It's their role model in totalitarianism.
Beijing didn't take this peasant's bribe money, the money he swindled from other peasants. That somehow makes this idiot a dissident. Got it.
You have the EU telling Facebook to do more to prevent terrorism-related propaganda.
You have paid entities flooding the web with news outlets that are biased, bespoke or even blind zealots working with ficticious or manipulated facts.
You have social web and big data companies getting dividends to publicize politicaly loaded interests or from selling unfair, unregulated demographic info, from every and any political wing.
You have state and corporate interests undermining individuality, basically nullifying democracy.
You have capitalism ethics that free and prioritize organizations (vs individuals) for societal development, and communist ethics that have to restrict individuals at scale in order to provide equality and prevent monopolies other than the state itself.
You have a speculation industry oligarch undermining democracy with ignorance, hate and nepotism, an intelligence service top-tier undermining democracy with extremism and despotism, and a single party president in a non-democracy going the cult of personality route, all of them making use of censorship, oppression and counter-information for consolidation of power.
Now, you telling me Google, who just happenned to recently decide would re-enter the chinese market again, doing chinese state a favor is newsworthy? Who da fck cares, it's business as usual.
I'm not even mad because in the long run, having Google in China might prove a lot more beneficial to any social improvement there than having a youtuber sham the state leader to foreigners who don't give two shits about what's going on in southeast Asia (at least not away from a keyboard).
So what would Jesus do here? Nobody has a clue, but everyone would have an opinion. And for any believers out there, have you ever stopped to consider the reason there wasn't a 2nd coming is because we would be too fucking judgemental on anything any so-called savior would do? I personally think he's looking down and thinking "they don't need another me, they already settled for mediocrity and the immediate satisfaction of ubiquitous attention-grabing. I am no match for the internet".
They are no more propaganda than what NYT is or even CNN is.... duhh.....
Again, just like they said ABOUT YT, they didnt deny the claims, and again just like YOU,
you do NOT deny the claims either do you, sooo... look how PRO CORP AMERICA, CNN is...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ1qT-XtNk0
They take phsyops/brains washing to the next level, subtle they are not, CIA controlled for sure.
EAT it.
When Google reorganized itself as Alphabet they changed their slogan from "Don't be evil." to "Do the right thing." That's when you knew they were going evil.
I think this should be looked at as a problem that modern Internet use was designed to create for non-technical users: instead of making videos available in many places (so when some are in some way disabled, even temporarily, other copies remain), people are encouraged to think that it's right and proper to host everything in one spot. This makes censorship easy and effective for the admins of that one service.
Metaphorically speaking, don't put all your eggs in one basket. License your work to share, and host copies on multiple servers including your own, and host copies via decentralized file sharing systems such as BitTorrent. One effective way to do this is uploading to archive.org—each archive.org upload is also available via BitTorrent. As long as the material is mirrored by other users individuals can keep copies available even if archive.org disables or deletes their copy.
Digital Citizen
Sometimes you get community strikes on 5 year old videos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
OK, China. Now you sit on Kim Jong Un.
Have gnu, will travel.
It is high time that google search, Facebook, YouTube and the other mega corporations that have a de-facto monopoly get regulated by the US government as the monopoly utilities that they are. Then YouTube can say sorry China, the US government won't allow us to block that content. Within China you can block what you manage to block, outside you can sit and spin because YouTube is based in a country that values freedom and transparency. (Alt left facist America haters of the US and around the world, please just move along, your hatred of the US is out of proportion with reality and real suppression and evil around the world. The US isn't perfect, but it is still by far the best and most free country on the planet).
Beyond that, we don't need utilities cutting off peoples access to huge chunks of the internet simply because they disagree with them. That is what courts are for. We are at the cusp of this kind of regulation, and before you argue that Google search, Facebook, or Youtube are not de-facto monopoly utilities and they don't provide an essential service, keep in mind that electricity didn't historically fall into that category either, but it has become an essential utility. The companies listed above have the vast majority of their market share, and should be regulated as such.
If you disagree, please post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like
“A Jew is intrinsically good. A Jew is a part of G-d above. Even if at times he strays it is not because he has become evil. It is only that there is evil within him that he has to cleanse. However, to separate with a million degrees of separation, a gentile is an impure thing. The entire essence of the gentile is evil and impure. Even if he occasionally does good deeds he does not thereby become good.” - Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Now what is the ethno-religious background of both Larry Page and Sergey Brin? FYI, a "gentile" is anyone who is not a Jew.
Youtube management make me sick! Every one of them! ANYTHING for a buck, eh? If there is such a thing as karma, you will all come back as Chinese serfs slaving for a warlord.
LOL China, keep sensoring the internet like it's 1999.
Google is a huge fan of censorship (paging James Damore), so it makes sense that they would help China crush dissent.
Yes, YouTube is blocked in China by the Great Firewall. So why is China complaining? Because the Elite and every other curious person is using a VPN to get past the Great Firewall--which are supposedly soon to be illegal in China. This is yet another gross example of YouTube censorship and why another platform needs to be replace it and be decentralized so a monopoly like Google can't control it.
Didn't take long from Do No Evil to Anything for a Buck. I blame the MBA mentality that is in charge now.
There is no such thing as an "MBA mentality". A person who would do anything for a buck was like that before an MBA program, a person who would do good by you will still be like that after an MBA program.
An MBA program is nothing more than a series of survey courses, one to three classes in various topics. Statistics, organizational behavior, economics, accounting, operations, consumer behavior, marketing, strategy, product development, project management, business law, negotiations, information technology, etc. This does not turn an engineer into an accountant, no more than it turns an accountant into an IT person. What it does is let an engineer see things from the perspective of an accountant, a marketing person, a strategy person, etc. So that the engineer can better represent the engineering perspective to these other groups, so that the engineer can better understand the perspective of these other groups. In short, MBAs allow better communication between different fields of expertise. There is no special "mentality" installed.
Let whoever want to censor you from streaming whatever play whackamole build your own service http://weheart.digital/build-simple-live-streaming-solution/ this can be moved from server to server. IPv6 would make life even easier and the game impossible to play for those who want to silence anyone. Furthermore distribute your content through bittorrent and similar protocols and save yourself from bandwidth issues is there will be copies out there in case they crack down on you
First it was Facebook, then it was Twitter and finally YouTube.
Guess the guy's not going to have much of an on-line life...
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Regulate them.
Domain registrars and monopsonistic speech platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube should be required to publish their policy, the policy should be approved by the government only if it's not too subjective, and takedown should be subject to review, either external to the company, or by an internal adversarial board structured to be independent of the rest of the company and politically neutral. These entities have more power over speech than the government did at the time the first amendment passed, and they've proven repeatedly they intend to use this power politically, and they are infiltrated by SJWs so bent on executing another of Mao's Cultural Revolutions that they are incapable of even mediocre discretion much less the stewardship required of someone who holds this power. Our democracy can't afford this, and it doesn't need to tolerate it. We can simply regulate them.
We have the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act that forbids US companies from bribing foreign officials, even if that's standard operating procedure in the markets where they want to operate. The US should have a similar Act that forbids US companies from appeasing foreign orders to censor political speech beyond their borders.
People pretend like corporations like Google, Apple, Facebook are more (i.e. moral entities) than what they are -simply a business arrangement between a group of people to maximize the profit on their investment. The problem here is not that Google and Facebook cave in to China, the problem is people assuming that Google and Facebook have any sort of moral underpinning.
Guo,
Publish on LBRY.IO. It's blockchain. It's monetized using crypto-currency. And it's decentralized. Google can't de-monetize or take-down and neither can anyone else. Facebook, Twitter, and anything Google are pretty much a waste of space these days.