There is no safety on corporate media. This is why we built the fediverse.
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soldiers shooting civilians, including children
I mean, it's right there. YouTube ain't LiveLeak.
Coverage of the Tienanmen Square Massacre is on YouTube and includes exactly this.
Hell, it's practically a meme to shout "Nobody in China knows about Tienanmen Square!" at the villainous Lemmy Tankies, precisely because the Chinese government has a policy of taking down media coverage while the US media proudly reproduces it at every opportunity.
Why would YouTube, a company that has repeatedly expressed its commitment to breaking down the barriers of government censorship and oppression, suddenly decide it needs to censor a state-sanctioned massacre of civilians? What would lead us to conclude that the genocide in Gaza should be treated differently than the Tienanmen Square massacre?
I wonder if we could pressure the BBC or PBS into pushing these videos to force Google/Israel to do this even more blatantly.
Not under the current Zionist administrations
repeatedly expressed its commitment to breaking down the barriers of government censorship
That was only and will only ever be done when it's in favor of whatever government reigns over the company.
Displaying the Tiananmen Square Massacre is in line with the USA gov. Displaying Israeli crimes is not.
Don't be naive. Youtube and Google don't give half a shit to go against censorship.
Don’t be naive.
Hardly naive. Just pointing out the obvious.
YouTube clearly has no problem hosting snuff films with the correct political valence.
the post says coverage of. was actual video of the acts shown?
YouTube has no problem with multiple different ai generated gory videos of Rebecca Madeupname being mauled alive by an orca. Every time I opened a private window, one of these was recommended. No age restriction, nothing.
They have no problem with porn bots spamming family friendly channels with pro-paedo comments, even though they use the same avatars and messages so should be easy to filter out. Videos promoting dangerous hacks stay up even after multiple reports. They're fine monetising reaction channels that are nothing more than freebooting other people's work.
So YouTube's tos really comes down to: it's fine if it makes money.
I wish there was proper competition, even if it was run by another awful company like Microsoft or amazon. AFAIK no other platform offers monetisation like yt does, so people stay and put up with their crap.
(Personally I'm hoping to reupload mf stuff to peertube if I ever come out this slump.)
If you've been on the internet for a decade or two and can't find news you clearly remember that happened about the big corp, tech or the government, you know these ghouls work together to shape a narrative. They scrub the internet clean of it.
These companies (big tech and news corps) being a monopolies isn't a coincidence, authoritarian governments like it when they have direct access to narrative control.
Needless to say, archive everything you think could disappear, in multiple places, and possibly in regions of their geopolitical rivals.
I’ve noticed this
Sometimes it might be getting scrubbed. Sometimes it just gets buried under other bullshit. I've had to run the same few keywords in different combos to eventually find the article I was looking for because so many other things with the same keywords happened since. The real thing that hampers this is how Google/youtube removed search by year ranges.
google is waaaaaaaaay beyond "don't be evil". Right now, for them any kind of statement is just a temporary transportation between their position and more tech monopoly.
We really live in a world where "YouTube took down my warcrime videos" is bigger news than "there are warcrimes being committed"
This is why the world is so terrible: centralization of capital and thus also attention in the hands of unscrupulous monsters.
In Western countries, we may convince ourselves that we are better than the neglected Third World countries because of all our technology. That is not the case—in fact, the opposite is true, because our inhumane rulers have incomparably more power.
I have to wonder: did they seriously mean it when they made "don't be evil" their company motto way back in the day? I'd be open to the idea that they were sincere at the time and then had their brains broken and their souls corroded by extreme wealth.
Or, maybe they were being dishonest even back then, and that mercenary attitude is what you need to succeed in Corporate America.
It's difficult to describe the world in the pre-social media age. There was a time when Google was just a cool software company building cool things, and the don't be evil motto was probably genuine.
Software used to be an thing that you would buy and use if you needed it. It came on a disk. It wasn't this ever pervasive network of always on tools living in our homes and devices working to cultivate the ultimate consumer unit
did they seriously mean it when they made “don’t be evil” their company motto way back in the day?
When they weren't raking in tens of billions of dollars in government surveillance contracts and state-sponsored media ad buys? Probably.
But Google is under completely different management in 2025 relative to what it had at the outset in 1998. Perhaps the company's commitment to "Don't Be Evil" was violated the day they IPO'd. But Larry Page and Sergey Brin aren't in the driver's seats anymore. They sold their souls to join the oligarchy. Perhaps they assumed they could do more with an infinite line of credit than a rising star social media company. Or perhaps Google simply wouldn't be allowed as the global leader in search without spreading its cheeks and admitting corrupt bureaucracies to puppet it from below.
There was a time in the early 2000’s when tech companies got their customers by being better than the alternatives instead of just being obscenely wealthy and buying out all competition.
They removed the old motto from everywhere official many years ago. Don't be evil... Until you get enough market share that you don't have to care anymore.
We are all Palestine.
Today Palestine. Tomorrow us.
LiveLeak was killed for a reason. You might not like what it was, but it would have been fine with hosting these things.
In fairness they do this with ISIS videos too. It's hard to preserve warcrimes evidence that gets posted to social media no matter who committed it as every platform just deletes it. We need government policy here
I never had "wished we had a warcrimestube.com" on my 2025 disaster bingo, but here we are.
It was called liveleaks and it shut down.
Peertube?
lol that's so funny <-- presumably what you thought when you decided to post this is in a "meme" community instead of some kind of serious political comm.
I myself think this community either has to pick a better name or get different content because there is a serious mismatch, but stated in the sidebar this community is for sharing screenshots of microblog posts. That makes this is the perfect for this post, despite the name of the community. I can't speak for the op, but i dont think theyre laughing about this
Yeah I posted this here because it fits the community not because its a meme
Serious posts are certainly common here, but most are clearly humorous.
Yeah as someone who browses by all and came across this, I upvoted without realising the Community it's in. But you're right. This is in no way a meme.
Most things called "memes" are not memes as the term was originally defined.
The post references a fairly known meme format:
knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-it-started-vs-how-its-going
Apart from that meme bit, the memetic value is very low bcs all the text is very literate and direct (proper journalistic) to not cause any doubts about the main story conveyed.
So I would def say it's technically a meme (and the format is used correctly) + it has some microblog aspects too. I think it fits the community (purely based on the name alone I mean).
Pre-internet there was a certain amount of natural limit on how much bullshit one could spread, because you had to print physical newspapers and find distributors, which meant that you had to have a name and a business address people could find you at.
With 2000s Internet this limiter was removed, but counterbalanced by everyone being able to present their own side for the marketplace of ideas.
Now in 2025 we’re in the worst of both worlds, where a tiny number of trillion-dollar companies control 98% of Internet traffic and are making it clear that they have no qualms abusing that power to shape public discourse.
You can still make your own website and publish whatever you like (local laws may apply).
Only in the same way that you could always write your own newsletter and hand it out in the street. I feel like you’re wilfully missing the point there.
The Nazis also tried to cover up evidence of their genocide
Now google doesn't just steal your data! but they back a genocide too!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA
Google's slogan 15 years ago
Don't be Evil
Google's slogan today
Do~~n't be~~ Evil
The fuck does Google even get out of this? At some point I really just do not understand why people are so aggressively supporting Israel’s genocide. Like, the fervor behind their support is crazy for all people who aren’t directly responsible for creating the problem and who could so easily just not support this shit.
I know there’s money involved but this is ridiculous.
money, MOSSAD/IDF paid google millions to spread propaganda ads, and recently israeli signed a deal with google for its AI services(1.2bn), and also prevent other nations that requests data from said ai services when accusing IDF soldiers. googles video AI is very useful making alot of propaganda, the ones that been showing up on shorts alot.
Boycott YouTube…
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