2 years ago YouTube suspended my other YouTube account that was used for my old blog, after lots of back and forth they finally restored it, so it's not like they don't know who Bellingcat is.
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It feels like all the social media companies are having a go at open source investigators this week, first Facebook with graph search, then Twitter with shutting down open source investigator accounts, now YouTube has banned Bellingcat's YouTube channel:pic.twitter.com/UE1lkLuukX
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I'd personally preferred to have spent the day preparing our new MH17 report and working on more pressing issues, but now I guess I get to spend my time trying to get the channel restored instead. Thanks, YouTube.
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Maybe I should have posted a bunch of conspiracy theories on it, seems YouTube doesn't give a shit about those, and actively promotes them.
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YouTube has now restored the channel, which you can view herehttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFl-GzKYeCW3iWjnQDuxzAA …
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Have they been threatened by one or more of the major criminals, let’s say, Russia due to your MH17 reporting?
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Time to invest in your own servers or rent on a cloud that can be backed up locally. This whole thing of everyone being in hock to Facebook, Twitter and YouTube is nonsense. It's free sure, but now you see the real cost.
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Could always host on Vimeo, DailyMotion and/or Bitchute. I know a one of the chemistry channels I like, that was banned from youtube (
@ChemPlayer1 ) relocated to Bitchute.
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Maybe what is needed is some democratic governments need to start regulating these massively powerful companies that run platforms where people get information. Maybe we, the users, need some basic, rights, transparency and oversight, like other major industries have?
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They are already regulated. And this is a consequence of the measures these companies take to comply/avoid being slapped. Someone or something flags content. Review -> suspend. Problem is that they are bad at reviewing flagged content, and this mechanism is being badly abused.
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Umm YouTube is rife with clips of cops and criminals or owners shooting each other, not to talk about street fights ???
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