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Comment by bhouston

1 year ago

I have found a lot of pro-Palestinian YouTube videos are put behind warnings pages unnecessarily - the preventing them from going viral.

Here is a great example, this Chris Hayes of MSNBC news segment on the MSNBC YouTube channel where he is incredibly critical of what Israeli leaders are saying:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTHVseqZdw

Notice the warning says:

"The following content may contain graphic or violent imagery"

There are no such warnings on the official MSNBC website on this video, thus it is specific to YouTube: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/chris-hayes-the-war-in-...

I've seen this happen on another video, one calling on the games industry to be supportive of the Palestinian struggle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB_wYdn5f4

You can find a ton of videos on YouTube with similar content or worse that the Chris Hayes's video that is critical of Israel, but they are allowed: https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel

Here is probably the best example, here is an official IDF video that shows clearly dead bodies and there is no YouTube content warning, just a warning that the IDF put in their video - thus allowing this video to still go viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta7ScT67vQ0

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DarkByte  1 year ago

This is extremely concerning and hints at a potential intentional organized suppression of information that is calling out the horrors that are being committed in Gaza.

  • giraffe_lady  1 year ago

    It has been going on for decades, openly discussed among pro-palestine activists in the US since the early days of social media. One of the first and most reliable "mainstream" users of reddit was israel posting "idf thirst traps" though that nomenclature didn't exist for it back then.

    I was a mod of a few semi-popular subs back then and we'd get bombarded by requests to remove comments critical of israel in those threads. A few times messaged by state employees under their real names making their case for a pro-israel mod stance. This was like circa 2008-2011, real ron paul le bacon atheism obama days.

  • bombcar  1 year ago

    This is extremely well known and the tooling has been in place and optimized for years.

    Usually it is aimed at “correct” targets so nobody cares.

  • mupuff1234  1 year ago

    It's literally been in the headlines off basically any news outlets for the last few months.

  • davidf18  1 year ago

    Actually, the fact that Gazans are far better off than Syrians and other Arabs in other conflicts is rarely discussed. Israel is required to destroy Hamas in Gaza as the US was required to destroy Germany and Japan. But Israel has been using hi-tech weaponry rarely discussed even on HN, a tech website. For example, Iron Sting, a mortar guided by both GPS and laser is used even at night so that when a Hamas terrorist emerges from tunnels, they are immediately blown up. This helps to preserve Gazan civilian lives but not discussed in the media.

    Iron Sting Mortar | How it Works | Israel Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueA6HIA0Pg

    Rarely mentioned by the media is that Hamas builds command and control centers under hospitals intentionally putting civilians in harms way.

    • epups  1 year ago

      They should use more of these smart rockets, because so far their dumb ones have leveled Gaza and killed over 10,000 children.

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mtalantikite  1 year ago

I was asked to sign in to watch that video, since it has a content warning. Is that something that happens to other news broadcasts dealing with war footage?