In the beginning of February a coordinated reporting
campaign against the YouTube channel of Vlad TepesBlog began. Simple
examination of the filed complaints reveals the idiocy of the reporting. Vlad TepesBlog shared a few of the hundreds of their videos that were suddenly reported
within a week. The vast majority of what
was on Vlad TepesBlog’s YouTube channel were news reports from foreign
countries subtitled into English. Below are two examples of YouTube’s response
to the reporting sent to Vlad TepesBlog.
View here judge for yourself if this deserves an Adult
Rating: https://bit.tube/play?hash=QmSmFBVZ8TkkLxj3EoWm1bF96P1e1tGEojpWstC8kzYpSA&channel=251530
View here judge for yourself if this deserves an Adult
Rating: https://bit.tube/play?hash=QmSomHDJakfvxdqeuvGoE4CQA9JAcraeydVYNKt9TnosaK&channel=251530
Is Google
Politicizing viewership and subscriber numbers?
Vlad TepesBlog’s YouTube Channel had over 30,000
subscribers. Their videos were not
monetized as the goal was to get the truth out and not have it be thought that
income would sway what was shared. One of Vlad Tepes Blog’s subscribers wrote
to them that they were under attack by Google, because his subscription count
was not increasing and appeared frozen. It became a talking point for months
when the number was approximately 24,xxx for a few weeks. It then shot up to
30,000 within 6 weeks. Having posted several hundred videos Vlad TepesBlog had
other concerns that YouTube was adjusting the viewership statistics.
Tested
Vlad TepesBlog works with Gates of Vienna sometimes. In
this case he embedded his videos on the Gates of Vienna with YouTube videos
averaging a daily viewership at YouTube of between 600 to 1600 views per day.
Sometimes they might get as high as 3,000 to 4,000. This encouraged further
curiosity at statistical manipulation by YouTube/Google. So Vlad TepesBlog did
some work with Freezoxee.com a place he had ZERO subscribers, unlike YouTube
where he had accumulated 30,000+. So the only people who saw the video were
people who saw the social media ties to the site.
There were 15,000 to 30,000
views which over a several days. Vlad TepesBlog states that this count far
exceeded the amount of viewers YouTube was reporting for the hundreds of videos
on his channel over the same period time.
The frozen subscription count plus the low viewership counts
made Vlad wonder if they are concerned about his actual influence. Influence?
Yes! When a channel gets a lot of attention YouTube promotes it in various
ways. Even individual videos get promoted due to high viewership. So was the
attempt purposeful to limit their influence hence stopping videos from going
viral?
Congressional leadership prior to the Democratic takeover of
the House was pursuing a look into flagrant First amendment violations of these
Social Media platforms like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube for directly limiting
the influence of persons who are Conservative and/or Anti-Jihadists.
Sadly, the mass reporting of VladTepesBlog and the forced
closure of its channel show a huge flaw in the security measures of YouTube,
and other Social Media platforms. That being the evident lack of
Due Process.
Due Process is what protects a person from false accusations
and usually ferrets outs liars in a timely fashion. YouTube accepted complaints
that videos with no violence or sexual themes should now be labeled and require
age verification to view adult content. This implies that your daily news feed
according to YouTube should be labeled Adult
Content. This means no comments can be seen or written.
The worst problem here is that NO HUMAN CONTACT is possible!
You can only appeal a decision with a form response that may or may not be read
by a human.
Important Questions
for YouTube
Are bots all that reviews complaints? Are there security
measures in place to address mass reporting?
What is the process of review for an actual complaint before a label of
Adult Content is applied? What happens if a reviewer shows bias or incompetence
when reviewing content?
YouTube Does NOT CONSISTENTLY close Hate Channels
Social Media giants seem set on controlling messages to
their platform. YouTube has been caught hosting content that promotes
Anti-Semitism under the guise that it is Islamic. The Middle East Media
Research Institute has caught several videos on YouTube and noted the names of
the persons and the organizations posting Anti-Semitic content under these
circumstances. Persons with platforms that have been exposed by MEMRI
include Zafar Bangash, who leads the Institute of Contemporary Islamic
Thought (ICIT). ICIT has a YouTube Channel called the ICIT Digital Library.
Perhaps YouTube thinks this is acceptable because this channel
only has 4,562 subscribers?
MEMRI
also exposed Sheikh Omar Baloch. His promotion of Islamic Relief
should be enough of a concern to remove his You Tube Channel. The
Middle East Forum’s extensive expose of Islamic Relief’s connections
to known terror entities and persons is more than enough to post a flagged
warning of adult content! But as you can see Sheikh Omar Baloch’s channel still
exists.
There are far too many examples of this non-censorship of channels
sponsored by persons connected to Anti-Semitism and Jihadi terrorism.
You have to ask how Google aka YouTube finds reason to
justify keeping content that is connected to Anti-Semitism and terrorism, AND how
are news feeds subtitled into English deemed offensive at all!
Yet
YouTube claims it catches most of the hate and terror videos. It
hosted Islamic State videos that the government had to request be taken down!
Yet their own content reviewers seem to target persons who have influence and
are sharing actual News coverage simply because the content reveals unpopular
truths?
This past December
YouTube made the news after closing 1.67 million channels and all of
the 50.2 million videos associated with them. According to Reuters, YouTube
claimed, “Nearly 80 percent of the channel takedowns [were] related to spam
uploads. About 13 percent concerned nudity, and 4.5 percent child safety.”
Final Thoughts
Are we to believe news is now to be counted in the same
category as spam, nudity, and child safety issues? But Anti-Semitic speech is
protected if it is Muslim?
Lets not forget the monetary value of good will. It doesn’t
matter that Vlad TepesBlog was not asking for income. What matters was his
influence grew because he was respected. That respect earned him a high
subscription rate and a total viewership of all 1600+ videos in the millions. Vlad
TepesBlog considers the action of closing their channel a fraud. The work
portrayed was not porn, it was not a safety concern, it did not violate
community standards, so the shut down of his channel was an act of fraud.
While a formal apology and restoration of all the work of
Vlad TepesBlog would be considered a good business strategy for YouTube,
versus a lawsuit for alleging that news which was subtitled needed an Adult
content rating.
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ask that you sign up and subscribe to their Channel here. Vlad TepesBlog
continues to not ask for any monetary assistance. They only want you to have
the truth and subscribing to their work helps them to get the word out!
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