Musings of an Old Curmudgeon: Two Profound Acts of Censorship by YouTube This Past Few Days

How long until there are no Christians, conservatives, or defenders of our Græco-Roman Catholic civilisation and culture left on the internet?
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From Vlad Tepes

By Eeyore

Lets begin with Laura Southern's documentary, Borderless. We try not to post things unless we have watched it as a rule, so it hasn’t been posted up to now as 90 minutes or so is a luxury not affordable too often. But now its a news event itself. YouTube has been using its most deceptive measures to stop it from being seen.

First this article on Human Events:

YouTube has removed Lauren Southern’s conservative documentary Borderless from their platform. The film was deleted less than 24 hours after Southern made it available to the public on her personal YouTube channel.

Initially, Southern’s team encountered numerous problems in trying to publish the documentary on YouTube. As Southern explains:

“We uploaded the documentary a day before the release, with no issues,” Southern and the Borderless team told Human Events.

‘On release day the film wouldn’t play in the back end—so we uploaded another version. This version uploaded and processed, we could watch it and we set it to premiere. Suddenly the movie began to process again and stopped in time for the premiere.'”

Read the rest at source. Lets look at Laura’ Twitter feed. If that is even still up.

There is over 100,000 views on the backup channel. It is working here so far.
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720 YT version:

If it goes down I am 100% sure that there will be a way to make sure you can all see it. We on this side of the site will watch it today.

The Second act: Milo in Germany:

On May 11, Milo addressed Alternative für Deutschland and CDU MPs, journalists and alternative media bloggers in Berlin about press freedoms and Islam. The talk was originally scheduled to take place in the German Parliament, and had to be moved after complaints. YouTube cut the live feed ten minutes into the speech, citing “hateful content” and issuing a strike against the channel hosting it.

My name is Milo Yiannopoulos, and for those of you who don’t know me, I am the most lied-about, most censored man on the planet. So, it’s fitting for me to be here today to address the most lied-about political party in Europe.

… even if we’re not having this speech where we should be. It’s fine, I’m not mad. It’s not like it exposed me to massive global humiliation getting disinvited from the Bundestag or anything.

It was only the Washington Post and maybe 50 or 60 other newspapers. Seriously, don’t worry about it.

I’m not even bothered, shut up!

Below, Tim Poole on the Lauren Southern video and Youtube’s suppression of it.

Thank you Dymphna and all who sent in materials that helped to make this post.

And now a third, bonus stunning act of censorship by the UK.

In the US, and probably in Canada, utilities are not allowed to, as an example, deny someone a telephone because they don’t like or agree what they say. Utilities cannot discriminate. So let’s look at what the postal service in the UK did to Tommy Robinson:

During Tommy’s campaign, running as an MEP for the North West, we had information passed over to us that required further investigation.

We were told on one occasion the leaflets that Tommy’s campaign had paid for, ones that were to be distributed by post in Irthington, just outside Carlisle, had not been delivered as they should have been, in fact, the leaflets were delivered at one address with no occupants and still in the box.

We had made a complaint to Royal Mail business department who then advised us, after investigating the person (who was referred to as “she” over the phone) responsible they were going to “re-train” her? This alleged female was supposed to take the leaflets out of the box and deliver them to every address on her round; this did not happen because she didn’t want Tommy’s campaign material distributed.

We were unhappy with that response and Royal Mail refused (at least their business department did) to divulge any more information or to put that in writing to us, we did not expect to have the “she” name involved in this because that would be covered under data protection law, every employer has a duty of care to its employees. What Royal Mail could have done is put in writing to us that they found the person responsible, who did not distribute the leaflets and that action will be taken with that individual.

Royal mail did not want to do that.

We were not happy with that “fob-off.” […]

But wait! There is more:

The UK postal system did the same thing to the BNP ten years ago and apparently, UK postal workers have some kind of special right not to deliver things they “find offensive”. Which of course means anything they don’t feel you should have or they don’t agree with.

Royal Mail has a legal obligation under the Representation of the People Act to deliver election material.

In asking Royal Mail post workers to deliver BNP leaflets, the Communication Workers Union is arging that Royal Mail is breaking a ‘conscience clause’ agreed several years ago allowing staff to refuse to deliver literature they find offensive.

The Times reported on Friday that some 100 workers in the West Country have told union leaders they will not carry the leaflets, but that the CWU is accusing Royal Mail chiefs in Bristol and Somerset of “bullying”, with one office allegedly threatening workers with dismissal if they do not comply.

Dave Wilshire, spokesman for the Bristol and District Branch of the CWU, told the Times: “Over the past 48 hours I‚ve had around 32 calls from individual members and those speaking on behalf of groups, saying they don’t want to deliver the material. That is fair enough.The clause says members don‚t have to deliver material if they feel threatened or if it is against their personal beliefs.”

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