PieFedYouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
BrikoXtheintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-isra…
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
Archived version: https://archive.is/20251104233119/https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/
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Jake FarmMaybe uploading it to peertube would make sense. Just saying.
Sunshine (she/her)
KissakiAlternative title: Trump administration forces YouTube to delete more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations
Forces implies an unwillingness and resistance. Knowing YouTube, they were probably more than happy to help in the covering up of war crimes.
“requires” may have been a more fitting term, but it implies/can be read as the removal hasn’t happened yet
All social media has been since before the final solution for the gaza ghetto.
Including reddit, facebook, twitter, instagram, tik tok now.
In private companies courts decided we have no rights, but the government can lean on them in secret, creating a de facto government censorship of speech.
Same as warrantless surveillance, the government buys private data broker info without cause or warrant on everyone, does another end run around the bill of rights.
We need clear rules we can challenge enforcrment actiond on, I would say if not settled by an appeal to be decided by a jury of users, but I am an english common law partisan like that.
State laws could work but courts would cancel them the first time israel was criticized. And feds would pre empt.
I’m not a big YouTuber but I do follow a few accounts. I’m going to contact them and let them know about the possibility of Peertube.tv.
Hopefully they won’t see it as much more effort to upload their content to two places, but we’ll see!
I wouldn’t put it past Google to help censor for Israel, but there’s a very real chance that these videos may have just violated whatever obtuse terms they have, maybe something with gore/violence? I don’t know.
DeebsterThe article shows that that’s not what’s going on:
YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.
“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.
Did you read the article or just the headline?
On Lemmy web you don’t even have to open the article. This info/content is in the content teaser.
Who reads any article these days? Only total losers and bozos read anything more than the headline.
(I read a different article that was much shorter from reddit, then saw this headline)
edit: also that’s terrible then, because it’s direct state interference.
jeffwThis was my immediate guess. Not even obtuse terms, just not wanting kids to stumble on torture porn and snuff films
https://web.archive.org/web/20250108193449/http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjVDKILC3s
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=2564706803864135&vanity=pchrgaza
It seems to be documentaries and analysis of killing videos. They are also censored.
Also videos which were produced by the nonprofits but hosted on alternate YouTube channels remain active.
You are giving youtube the benefit of the doubt, on israel, and 36 people agreed? Jesus christ.
DyskolosStop whining about censorship, stop using media that is controlled by so few people.
It’s that simple.
It’s like putting my hand in a crocs mouth and trusting it to not bite.
So glad I stopped supporting Youtube with ad revenue
you can do that with adblock, i have been using ublock origin for a decade+now.
Honest question, what are y’all doing on YouTube most days?
I go on about once or twice a month when I need to repair a thing and I can’t find a good written description of how to repair it.
Also I visited the other day to make sure my bluetooth headphones were connected before a call (I watched a video of goats doing goat things for 4s).
I’m curious what content is drawing in folks on Lemmy who probably skew towards my demographic.
video essays, news, comedy and podcasts related to the above
I don’t use the official site because I care about what data I put into the world, but I have about 150 subscriptions tailored over the last 15-ish years. Every morning I have 2-4 hours of new content on my subscriptions tab. Don’t even interact with the ragebait algorithm
I mainly just use it to watch content of few YouTubers that play timberborn and oxygen not included(Echoridgegaming) and then some vtuber stuff and daily dose of internet. Using ublock and sponsor block. Looked a bit into peertube but think I had harder time finding stuff but that was few years back so stuff might have changed. Are there any good alternatives? Sadly YouTube is kinda the go to place for content and streaming.
I follow people talk about life, improving themselves, learning things.
You cant go by the most watched or recommended content, that stuff is pure garbage.
I wonder this all the fucking time.
YouTube has been a huge contributor to the lack of useful written knowledge online.
Which would be cool if any of googles search functionality worked anywhere and video wasn’t a god awful fucking medium for learning everything.
Pause. Try a thing. Get behind. Pause. Rewind.. play. Pause. Play. Pause.
Even typing this out pisses me the fuck off.
honestly i hate podcasts and most peoples personalities are too irritating for me to stick with one source of news, philosophy, educational content etc for more than a week before I have to shut their annoying faces up. YouTube does make it really easy for me to be exposed to new people to hear from and new topics for me to dive into better than reddit or lemmy or other boards which hyperfocuses usually on specific subjects
I had trouble getting it going but once I got SmartTubeNext up and running on my android tv I began watching “YouTube” more than anything. It’s almost got anything you want on it except new movies and TV shows. I watch news, gaming stuff, put music on in the background, comedy. It’s got it all. I highly recommend SmartTubeNext as it skips all ads and even cuts out the sponsored segments of videos. A truly wonderful way to get YouTube content without having to sit through ads.
Video essays, Deltarune, Minecraft and Movie discussions and theories. And music to drown out my surroundings while I read a book because my mother watches TV with sensationalised drama all the time and my house is not big enough to escape from it
The Linux experiment (news), Technology connections (deep dive tech), real civil engineer (video games), Göran Winblad (running), House of hypertrophy (bodybuilding science), Just have a think (climate news) and the occasional garbage.
I mostly listen to YouTube thanks to revanced, it’s pretty good for chores.
some niche videos, videos of shows i never watched but have interest in, clips are satisfactory enough.
Paywalled.
https://archive.is/20251104233119/https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/
Shouldn’t have used YouTube as your only outlet then, you damn idiots. What the hell possessed you to think America is your friend.
I knew them getting people back in the office for “collaboration” they meant collaboration with a genocide!