Demonetization AIDs
I'm not that interested in Russell Brand's shambolic love life, which has now come back to bugger him royally up the ass, but what I am interested in is the whole process by which his content is now being expunged from the internet, and the unintended effects this is having.
Really, this is a bad move by the authorities, because, if this was just an innocent little prosecution about some run-of-the-mill raping back in the day, then they should be leaving his content well and truly alone, and just focus on getting a nice, clean rape conviction.
I mean, you are still allowed to send people to jail for that, which should be enough, if the dude is in fact guilty.
I mean, you are still allowed to send people to jail for that, which should be enough, if the dude is in fact guilty.
Instead of that, Brand's entire content on YouTube has now been demonetized on spurious grounds. Attempts have been made to demonetize his content on other platforms, too. Things are likely to go further than that, and there must be a good chance of Brand's entire YouTube channel being erased at some point.
Also, it looks like Brand's content, which benefits from a lot of shares and boosting from other accounts and channels (many of them highly suspicious and probably serving Kremlin polarisation ops), now has "demonetization AIDs", meaning that there is a high possibility of channels that share Brand's content being "infected" with the demonetization process:
The problem here is that we live in increasingly conspiritard times characterised by social paranoia, and taking down some hairy asshole's vax-sceptical content just because he may or may not have "raped" some women years ago, is not going to send out the message that YouTube thinks it is, namely that it is trying to protect its "users, employees or ecosystem." Nor are they going convince even one person that that Brand has fallen short of their nebulously-written and essentially meaningless "Creator Responsibility Policy.”
No, the real message YouTube is sending out to Brand's 6.65 million subscribers and the tens of millions of people who are closely following the case, is that "Rusty Rockets" must be "too close to the target" because he's picking up a lot of flak.
In short, in the same way that the ADL/SPLC unwittingly validate anti-Semitic bullshit conspiracy theories by their heavy-handed efforts to deflatform Neo-Nazis, instead of engaging with their content, YouTube, with its Orwellian behaviour and pretence that its interested in the "moral character" of its creators, unwittingly validates all of their more outlandish conspiracy theories, and, in the process, makes our culture all the more toxic.
No, the real message YouTube is sending out to Brand's 6.65 million subscribers and the tens of millions of people who are closely following the case, is that "Rusty Rockets" must be "too close to the target" because he's picking up a lot of flak.
In short, in the same way that the ADL/SPLC unwittingly validate anti-Semitic bullshit conspiracy theories by their heavy-handed efforts to deflatform Neo-Nazis, instead of engaging with their content, YouTube, with its Orwellian behaviour and pretence that its interested in the "moral character" of its creators, unwittingly validates all of their more outlandish conspiracy theories, and, in the process, makes our culture all the more toxic.
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Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Neokrat and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the dead and the famous. Support his work by buying it here (USA), here (UK), and here (Australia).
Off topic but worth covering. The so-called leader of the White Race: https://www.bitchute.com/video/HVKPZe2Kocz6/
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