Google, the owners of YouTube, has removed a channel on the platform belonging to a pro-Iran group producing Lego-themed videos mocking Donald Trump.
“Upon review, we’ve terminated the channel for violating our Spam, deceptive practices and scams policies,” a YouTube spokesperson told Middle East Eye.
“YouTube doesn’t allow spam, scams, or other deceptive practices that take advantage of the YouTube community.”
Explosive Media’s content largely consists of animations ridiculing the US war effort against Iran and poking fun at the US president.
Ehy Google, what about the anti-vaxers, fake-moon-landing, qanon channels, and similar shit?
Put them up on peertube.
It’d be so great if we could use Peertube as a “hosting provider” for Lemmy videos
Hey Google, fuck off.
where are our noble free speech warriors though?
Sucking on boots
Is this like when we banned the Chinese electric cars because we dont feel like competing anymore?
More like when we forced the sale of TikTok to Steven Mnuchin and Larry Ellison.
Or women athletes because they were better at certain sports
Do Prager U and Ben Shapio next
hahaha fat chance
I’m not surprised, but those videos were pretty fucking funny
Youtube supporting zionist violence? Shocked.
I am shocked. SHOCKED I say.
…not that shocked actually.
Every American company is loyal to the empire. If not by gleeful obedience then at least by threat of court orders and political pressure. I guess in Google’s case it’s that kind of gleeful obedience.
Okay but link to the vids?
That was bloody neat. And I say that as someone who normally hates rap.
I listened to it all the way through.
Although the music isn’t my usual thing, whoever made that is very clever. There’s so much small detail going on there. Brilliant sense of humour. And very talented.
I’d love to his reaction after watching one.
That means the videos were effective; I don’t agree with Youtube’s decision but it’s their business I guess.
Now I want to watch the videos
Dailymotiom is french so I had hoped that anyone wanting to watch them could just go there. However, I don’t see most of the videos in question there.
Looks like the videos exist on this Russian video hosting site: https://m.vkvideo.ru/?q=Lego+trump&action=search
Explosive Media, known in Persian as Akhbar Enfejari, has denied it is backed by the Iranian government and its videos have reached millions of viewers across a range of social media platforms.
Speaking to the BBC, the head of Explosive Media, who referred to himself as “Mr Explosive”, said his team consisted of fewer than 10 people and that the Iranian government was a “customer” of his company.
NGL, confusing article. Not even sure why it would matter?
If Iranian state actors are producing videos of this quality, it may become an existential threat to US Meme Hegemony.
TIL .ml loves mass-spam of genAI slopaganda if it’s in support of a cause they’re aligned with. Good to know.
This post is about censorship not about whether people like AI.
yes. we dislike things that are bad, and we tolerate the things that can do good.
Not even a little surprised that tankies – the fucking cognoscenti of rhetoric that pretends to care about a bad thing, masking that the real goal is for “their side” to have a monopoly on the bad thing – lack consistent ethics when it comes to destroying the planet and flooding out human-made media for shitty, braindead, dubiously effective propaganda.
Yes, marxist-leninists are pro-AI. Our goal is victory for the working class, and we will use any tool at our disposal to win.
But oh no, the moralizing radlib (dubious “morals” that somehow always ignore their own genocides) has appeared. Status quo defence at any cost is the goal of the radlibs, this includes preserving hollywood’s propaganda monopoly.
And the more our enemies tell us not to use it, the more we’re proven right. It scares them that the people have access to this power. They hate it when the people have power, and smear it by calling it “populism”.
Radlibs hate democracy.
But you can’t win. You could destroy all the AI in the west, we won’t care. Because the real good AI comes from china. And you can never defeat china.
lack consistent ethics
Consistent ethics is when I declare all sides bad and ignore geopolitical context
destroying the planet
The tankies is China are creating the first electrostate in human history and installing more renewables energy capacity than all of the lib states
flooding out human-made media
It’s the tankies that are doing this (not big tech). I am smart
Quick username question: opinions on North Korea? Since we’re on the whole “shitty ethics” thing.
Sounds a lot like: “We broadly support North Korea, but that’s too embarrassing to say directly, so we’ll just shitpost about it like a neo-Nazi would when asked a direct question about their abhorrent beliefs – afraid of frightening away the normies by revealing their ‘power level’.”
It’s comforting to me that you have to carry the level of shame that your beliefs are unspeakable in spaces dominated by sane people – and are barely even speakable in this deranged hellhole for fear that your monstrous beliefs will surface above the irony poisoning and scare away the few people with functioning consciences who stumbled into this from the front page.
not even a little surprised that libs chuck their free speech absolutism the moment that speech is against the lib status quo. to defend a pedophile regime this time, no less.
i mean come on, that slop ship you describe has sailed and being a luddite about it will just put you at a disadvantage.
genAI has predominantly been pushed by the US, particularly the super wealthy in the US, so that they can exploit the working class even more and pay them even less. As much as I hate genAI, seeing Iran, who was absolutely the wronged party in this completely illegal and unnecessary war of imperialist aggression on behalf of a genocidal ethnostate, turn the tool of the oppressors against them, and using it to agitate for class consciousness in the USA, is just fucking awesome, IMO.
Did you see the anti-Trump rap one? It actually goes so fucking hard.
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