{"id":24915,"date":"2017-08-27T16:03:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T21:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24915"},"modified":"2017-08-27T16:03:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T21:03:31","slug":"youtube-economically-censors-ron-paul-labels-videos-not-suitable-for-all-advertisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24915","title":{"rendered":"YouTube “Economically Censors” Ron Paul, Labels Videos “Not Suitable” For All Advertisers"},"content":{"rendered":"

YouTube “Economically Censors” Ron Paul, Labels Videos “Not Suitable” For All Advertisers<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Former US Congressman Ron Paul has joined a growing list of independent political journalists and commentators who\u2019re being economically punished by YouTube despite producing videos that routinely receive hundreds of thousands of views.<\/p>\n

In a tweet published Saturday, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted a screenshot of Paul\u2019s \u201cLiberty Report\u201d page showing that his videos had been labeled \u201cnot suitable\u201d for all advertisers by YouTube’s content arbiters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Assange claims that Paul was being punished for speaking out about President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to increase the number of US troops in Afghanistan, after Paul published a video on the subject earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The notion that YouTube would want to economically punish a former US Congressman for sharing his views on US foreign policy \u2013 a topic that he is unequivocally qualified to speak about \u2013 is absurd. Furthermore, the \u201creview requested\u201d marking on one of Paul’s videos reveals that they were initially flagged by users before YouTube’s moderators confirmed that the videos were unsuitable for a broad audience.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Other political commentators who\u2019ve been censored by YouTube include Paul Joseph Watson and Tim Black \u2013 both ostensibly for sharing political views that differ from the mainstream neo-liberal ideology favored by the Silicon Valley elite.<\/p>\n

Last week, Google \u2013 another Alphabet Inc. company \u2013 briefly banned Salil Mehta, <\/a>an adjunct professor at Columbia and Georgetown who teaches probability and data science, from using its service, freezing his accounts without providing an explanation. He was later allowed to return to the service.<\/p>\n

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Conservative journalist Lauren Southern spoke out about YouTube\u2019s drive to stifle politically divergent journalists and commentators during an interview with the Daily Caller.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cI think it would be insane to suggest there\u2019s not an active effort to censor conservative and independent views,\u201d said Southern.<\/p>\n

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