YouTube is implementing it’s updated terms of service on Dec. 12, it recently announced, much to the chagrin of conservative creators, who feel at risk based on the new rules.
“YouTube is under no obligation to host or serve content,” the new terms of service claim in a broad, sweeping rule that will allow the company to remove whatever content it wants at the drop of a hat.
The company also said that it “may terminate your use of the Services, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, that provision of the service to you is no longer commercially viable.”
There’s an obvious problem here for conservative content creators, many who have been demonetized by YouTube arbitrarily based on their political beliefs. That fact was not lost on Ford Fischer, who is known for covering Antifa protests and other political goings on.
“YouTube is probably over. It’s been a lot of small steps, but this is the end. As of December 10th, Youtube will delete channels that are ‘no longer commercially viable.’ How could a channel that’s demonetized be ‘commercially viable’? ‘Broadcast yourself’ is finished,” Fischer said.
“Broadcast yourself” was, for a time, YouTube’s slogan.
Conservative firebrand Faith Goldy explained at length how the new policies will affect people like her, who have been demonetized by the Google-owned tech giant.
“In January, YouTube removed my ability to collect SuperChats. In the Spring, YouTube demonetized my whole channel. Come December, they will delete channels that are ‘no longer commercially viable’. To this day, my channel has yet to earn a single strike. These people are SCUM,” Goldy said.
YouTube, though, is trying to pass the change off as innocuous. It downplayed its new terms in a comment to Business Insider.
“We’re making some changes to our Terms of Service in order to make them easier to read and to ensure they’re up to date We’re not changing the way our products work, how we collect or process data, or any of your settings,” a YouTube spokesperson reportedly told Business Insider.
The company is also couching its new terms of service as a way to protect minors who use the platform.
From The Verge:
The terms of service now come with an updated section on parental responsibility when children use the platform, and have more clearly stated the age requirements per country for using YouTube. This also includes a notice stating “if you are a minor in your country, you must always have your parent or guardian’s permission before using the service.”
But conservatives, many of whom have been completely banned from the platform or had their reach, impact, and profitability significantly hampered by the platform, aren’t buying that explanation, and rightfully so.
Alex Jones, perhaps the most prolific conservative radio show host, saw his InfoWars channel nuked from the platform without any real explanation.
Conservatives have no reason to believe that they will be treated fairly by Big Tech. In fact, they have many reasons to believe the exact opposite.
I have never understood why there isn’t a White House Working Group on Social Media…pathetic. Even if conservatives set up a separate channel, it would be ghettoized, like Fox News or Home Schools. Sad.
I don’t know if there is any connection; however, for the past few months, it seems to always crash whenever I watch something that has to do with conservative ideology – – a Trump rally or someone speaking against a Libber., etc……And, now, if I watch a couple of other types of clips such as country music or the failure sketches that are there, it will crash also. I don’t know if there is any connection, but you know that they have my info of what I watch and it would be easy to program a crash in whenever I view something…That is OK……Let them have their channel. It opens up the opportunity for someone else to do the same thing for us conservatives and in the meantime take away from them! They are cutting their own throats! Actually, the sooner, the better!
https://www.brighteon.com is the new conservative channel platform.
I was amazed how fast they are growing the past year but seems even more so the past few months…no doubt thanks to youtube and their evil politics.
They are in violation of our rights to free expression and speech
Look, they have done it to enough conservatives now that its prima facia
evidence that they are targeting part of the population for their
beliefs. NOW a class action lawsuit as well as a federal civil rights
lawsuit can be instituted. They are discriminating based on ones
religious and political beliefs and thats a civil rights violation.
Perfect time, with Trump in the Whitehouse to pursue this, get on it
all you who have been demonitized and banned, get together and attack!
Look, they have done it to enough conservatives now that its prima facia evidence that they are targeting part of the population for their beliefs. NOW a class action lawsuit as well as a federal civil rights lawsuit can be instituted. They are discriminating based on ones religious and political beliefs and thats a civil rights violation. Perfect time, with Trump in the Whitehouse to pursue this, get on it Youtubers!
Time for Trump to use DOJ, FBI, FCC, IRS and any other government muscle to bring you tube to heel
Nope. No govmnt oversight. Let them burn in he&&. Free market enterprise, folks.
PLEASE give me another channel to watch these people on- anything-
They have already used IP blocking to keep me away from the comments on yon turd. FOX News is doing this too.
They record your IP address and block you, and this is only going to get worse. Laura Loomer is the only one who seems to be fighting back against this evil. And she needs our help…
And if I want to see a conservative based video, I have to know the exact search words to type in. Then, after the video ends, there are no videos shown that link to the one I just watched, instead, I am inundated with videos from MSNBC, or CNN. These WIPES know exactly what they are doing. They do not want you to even be able to think about anything conservative, and they lie like mooselimb dogs about it when they are challenged.
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