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.
“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?
Is this like when we banned the Chinese electric cars because we dont feel like competing anymore?
More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.
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.
where are our noble free speech warriors though?
Sucking on boots
I guess corpos see more $$$ in boomers and fascists.
Do Prager U and Ben Shapio next
hahaha fat chance
They are welcome to join the fediverse and put videos on peertube, odysse, bitchute, kick, whatever.
But sadly, now millions.of eyes won’t see it, which is entirely the point of the censorship.
I’m not surprised, but those videos were pretty fucking funny
Hey Google, fuck off.
I have not only de-googled myself, but I have de-Americaned too Moved all my online business to European equivalents. It has been eye opening as not only are the European equivalents comparable, but they had surprise extras that saved me money overall. That and OMG they are so much easier to setup and navigate as I am not wading through offers, upgrades, pop ups and dark patterns all over the dang place. It is like I have exited an abusive relationship with America that I did not even realize was as bad as it was. I love America, but I cannot be a part of funding their fascism.
I did the same and also I’m trying to use open source wherever is possible.
The only thing that I was still using was reddit but they banned me because I was promoting violence against Israel, while the hate comments against Iran was worse.
That means the videos were effective; I don’t agree with Youtube’s decision but it’s their business I guess.
Now I want to watch the videos
thank you brother
p.s. it’s good, not even radical. Makes YOUTUBE look very bad to pull it, in my opinion.
So… Its still online.
I think it’s a reupload - You can’t stop the signal!
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.
That Hegseth one was pure gold. I’m going to be bummed when it’s gone
Sleazy company
Explosive Media, known in Persian as Akhbar Enfejari, has denied it is backed by the Iranian government and its videos have reached millions of viewers across a range of social media platforms.
Speaking to the BBC, the head of Explosive Media, who referred to himself as “Mr Explosive”, said his team consisted of fewer than 10 people and that the Iranian government was a “customer” of his company.
NGL, confusing article. Not even sure why it would matter?
If Iranian state actors are producing videos of this quality, it may become an existential threat to US Meme Hegemony.
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?
Instasaved!
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.
