**You Tube, 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.**
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.
The 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?
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.
On Lemmy web you don’t even have to open the article. This info/content is in the content teaser.
This was my immediate guess. Not even obtuse terms, just not wanting kids to stumble on torture porn and snuff films
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Alternative 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
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!
Looks like the YouTube boycott begins!
