Content platform places ‘freeze’ on Electronic Intifada’s channel
The YouTube content streaming platform has placed a sudden ban on the Electronic Intifada channel, just as it was preparing to stream a Gaza update looking at the role of Britain in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. EI’s Asa Winstanley explained in an email to followers:
YouTube has just placed a punitive freeze on The Electronic Intifada’s channel, alleging that several previous livestream segments violated their opaque “community guidelines.” We vigorously reject this. Our careful reporting and analysis are professional, ethical and factual.
This blatant act of censorship aimed at preventing us from freely discussing the situation in Palestine and the wider region includes banning us from posting videos or livestreaming on our YouTube Channel for seven days. This means we are unable to livestream our program today, 11 September 2024, via YouTube.
We refuse to be silenced!
The Electronic Intifada livestream has gone ahead, but you will only be able to watch it on other platforms:
- Twitter: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RDGlyOEBOEJL
- Watch on Facebook at this link: https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1653478478557295
- Watch on Twitch at this link: https://www.twitch.tv/TheElectronicIntifada
- Watch on Instagram at this link: https://www.instagram.com/electronicintifada/live/
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Mea while, more UN workers murdered.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyn400rm68o
Israel again calls it “A precise strike on terrorists”.
And again, the west shrug their shoulders.
Really powerful letter from a jailed protestor on EI here:
https://electronicintifada.net/content/letter-jailed-palestine-activist/48686
“Most importantly, I’ve lost my fear. When we stand up to our oppressors, we free ourselves.
I no longer fear the police, the judges, or their absurd interpretation of the law. Inside or outside prison, I will keep fighting”
Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson also had his YouTube account permanently cancelled for alleged and unspecified* ‘hate content’ in the last day or so
https://sonar21.com/my-youtube-channel-deleted-for-hate-speech/
Whilst the hate speech attacking the NHS by Herr Starmer remains available on that platform
*A practice very much in line with the erstaz LP practice – not just in terms of internal procedures but also as a matter of National policy now these corrupt and unprincipled chancers are in Government (on the back of only around 20% of eligible voters) – of a total absence of any due process.
Like knowing the specifics of the charge against you; being able to face those making allegations against you; being innocent until proven guilty; and those making allegations having to prove their case.
As with the ersatz LP internal procedures – as well as its procedures in Government – the middle bit is totally absent. Moving from allegation to sentence without any pretence of due process.
We are now living under an authoritarian, fascist run system across the entire Collective Worst.