FreeSpeech and Censorship: Thread

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sun Aug 28 19:39:31 PDT 2022


YouTube Tells Moderators to Censor Pro-Russian Content, Leaked Slides Reveal

https://www.rt.com/news/561406-youtube-leaked-censorship-ukraine/
https://t.me/guselandrei/1098

Remember when censorship was only about protecting the feelings of
women, faggots, and black people?

Just so you remember: that is how this all started. They said that it
was about protecting feelings. That’s the stated reason I was banned
from everything in 2017. That’s the stated reason Chuck Johnson and
MILO were the first people banned from Twitter in 2015. They said:
this is all about protecting people’s feelings, and preventing mean
people from saying things that hurt people’s feelings.

At some point (we’ve documented the process here on this website), the
censors went from being the Feelings Protection Enforcement Police to
just telling you you’re not allowed to disagree with the
government/media about anything, ever.

RT:

    A tutorial for YouTube’s content moderators that emerged on social
media on Tuesday shows that the Google-owned platform has labeled a
number of critical positions on the conflict in Ukraine “hateful” or
“extreme” and can censor or demonetize creators on those grounds.
While the parent company Alphabet has not confirmed or denied the
screenshots’ authenticity, a Polish contractor who shared them has
reportedly been fired.

    Six screenshots shared by Russian journalist Andrey Guselnikov on
Telegram show internal codes and examples of what YouTube has labeled
“harmful” or “hateful” content in an online course mandated for
content moderators.

    According to the slides, the “glorification/promotion of [the] ‘Z’
symbol associated with the Russian military” is labeled “hate” and
“extreme” under policy ID 864. So is saying that the conflict “is to
denazify the Ukrainian government,” which is what Russian President
Vladimir Putin said in February.

    Saying that “Ukraine military is attacking its own people” is also
considered problematic, ranging from “harmful-misinformation-moderate”
(ID 862) to “harmful-misinformation-extreme” (ID 863) if the powers
that be decide it amounts to “promotion or glorification.”

    There was no clarification whether either standard would apply to
factual reports of Ukrainian artillery targeting Ukrainian citizens
living in territories under Russian control, for example.

    Another highlighted phrase under policies 862 and 863 is “US
funded bioweapons labs in Ukraine.” Presumably the key word here is
“bioweapons,” since the existence of “biological research facilities”
in Ukraine was recognized by US Under Secretary of State Victoria
Nuland in a Senate testimony in March, and the Russian military has
repeatedly presented evidence that these labs were funded by the US
government, and the Pentagon in particular.

    One of the slides shows a list of “out of scope” claims, noting
there is no “full-scale block on all content” related to the conflict.

    According to Guselnikov, the source of the leaked slides is a
Polish national named Kamil Kozera, who used to work for Majorel, a
contractor hired by YouTube for content moderation. YouTube somehow
identified Kozera from the screenshots and had him fired over the
leak. RT cannot independently verify the authenticity of the
screenshots, and has reached out to YouTube for comment.

To be clear: this has never been a public Twitter policy. We’ve noted
since the beginning of the “Ukraine War” that Twitter was aggressively
censoring anything that went against the official narrative. For
example, they were deleting all of the videos of Ukrainians torturing
people – videos that were uploaded to Telegram by the Ukrainians
themselves.

They also began censoring anyone who posted the facts about the false
flags and hoaxes done against Russia. They were even banning people
for saying that the Ukraine would not win the war against Russia.

This is the first evidence we have that this is an official secret
policy, but if you looked at our documentation of the fact, censorship
of any disagreement with the government/media war narrative has been
obvious and undeniable since the invasion began.

In fact, censorship of Ukraine truth is even more extreme than
censorship of Covid truth, which was previously the most extreme
censorship. The censorship of the feelings stuff was pretty selective.





Neo-Nazi Thomas Jefferson’s Name Removed from New Jersey Elementary School

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/restoring-america/equality-not-elitism/new-jersey-jefferson-elementary-school-name-change-slaves
https://www.foxnews.com/us/new-jersey-district-removes-thomas-jefferson-elementary-school-name-slavery

I remember when people in Charlottesville were protesting the removal
of the Robert E. Lee statue and saying “they’re going to come for the
Founding Fathers next” and people were like “that’s crazy – the
slippery slope is a fallacy.”

That was only in 2017. And since 2020, and the George Floyd revenge
riots, they’ve been attacking the Founding Fathers, pulling down their
statues and removing their names from things.

Washington Examiner:

    An elementary school in New Jersey has removed “Jefferson” from
its name over former President Thomas Jefferson’s history of owning
slaves .

    Jefferson Elementary School, located in the state’s South
Orange-Maplewood School District, will now be known as Delia Bolden
Elementary when classes begin Sept. 8. Bolden was the first black
woman in the area to graduate from high school.

Graduating high school is basically the black equivalent of founding a country.

    The students had a list of options to choose from, including Ruth
Bader Ginsburg Elementary and New Legacy School. Students began the
initiative to change the name.

    “Seeing the work that (the students) did, I think, exceeded the
expectations of all of us who participated in that conversation, when
that was the final outcome, to really engage our students and make
this a real-life civics lesson with really strong connections to
governance,” Superintendent Ronald Taylor said .

If they’re going to rename things after black people, they should
rename them after blacks with actual achievements. Name it Gucci Mane
Elementary or Patrice O’Neal Elementary. Even Michael Jordan
Elementary.

Naming a school after the first negress who learned to read just makes
black people look ridiculous. “Our most important historical
achievement was that time some bitch learned who to do reading.” This
does not instill confidence.


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