The thought police at YouTube and elsewhere are like WW1 generals fighting the last war rather than the current one.
It is much like the current artless effort by the corporate media to claim that Kamala Harris was never a "border czar" even though it was corporate media itself that originally applied the term to her role on border issues and immigration.
The thought police at YouTube fail to account for all the ways content can be archived across the Internet. Believing they are still the gatekeepers of information, they are defending the narrative rather than engage with the idea. Instead of responding to factual claims and challenges to their preferred narrative, they think they can simply silence the critics.
What they fail to realize is that, because the data often does survive their efforts to erase it, the censorship strips away the moral legitimacy of their position. They are taking a torch to their own credibility and will not realize the damage they are doing to themselves until it is too late.
What is truly astonishing to me is the degree to which they don't realize this. Or simply don't care about their credibility... which could mean that maybe they know something we don't.
Honestly, I don't think they even understand that credibility is an issue. There appears to be this belief both among corporate media and the Democrats that the narrative of the moment is the only "truth" there is.
Remember, the CDC simply lied about the safety monitoring they promised to do on the mRNA inoculations.
In the face of this much illogic and insanity, we have to seriously question the premise that corporate media or the Democrats know anything at all. We need to start seriously entertaining the premise that they really are that stupid and that ignorant.
It's bad enough getting shamed when you've actually said or done something wrong; here you're getting shamed (censored) for telling the truth. Very frustrating! I hope Bob M will start using Rumble, either with or without YouTube in addition: as far as I know, they don't censor.
"Either the folks running YouTube are living inside of a much smaller bubble than the rest of us are, and that bubble will soon be punctured by their own hubris… or *I* am living inside a smaller bubble than I thought I was, and the vast majority of the people around me are much, much stupider than I thought they were."
I think it's both, although your bubble is expanding, and theirs is getting stretched.
This same problem is writ large on the regime. They need ever greater levels of control in order to maintain power. This causes more people to notice and push back, and now we're in a feedback loop.
It's hilarious to me they're using AI to do this, and it's already a cock-up.
The thought police at YouTube and elsewhere are like WW1 generals fighting the last war rather than the current one.
It is much like the current artless effort by the corporate media to claim that Kamala Harris was never a "border czar" even though it was corporate media itself that originally applied the term to her role on border issues and immigration.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/kamala-harris-border-czar
The thought police at YouTube fail to account for all the ways content can be archived across the Internet. Believing they are still the gatekeepers of information, they are defending the narrative rather than engage with the idea. Instead of responding to factual claims and challenges to their preferred narrative, they think they can simply silence the critics.
What they fail to realize is that, because the data often does survive their efforts to erase it, the censorship strips away the moral legitimacy of their position. They are taking a torch to their own credibility and will not realize the damage they are doing to themselves until it is too late.
What is truly astonishing to me is the degree to which they don't realize this. Or simply don't care about their credibility... which could mean that maybe they know something we don't.
Honestly, I don't think they even understand that credibility is an issue. There appears to be this belief both among corporate media and the Democrats that the narrative of the moment is the only "truth" there is.
Remember, the CDC simply lied about the safety monitoring they promised to do on the mRNA inoculations.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/the-cdc-lied
The CDC lied about the link between the mRNA inoculations and myopericarditis.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/the-cdc-is-lying-about-myocarditis
Never forget all the "experts" who promised the mRNA inoculations would stop COVID completely.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/remember-big-pharmas-big-vaccine
And how many times has corporate media tried to deny stopping the virus completely was ever the goal of the inoculations?
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/no-return-to-normal-in-sight
And it's not just about Kamala Harris, or the border, or COVID. Corporate media has lied repeatedly about the state of the economy.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/corporate-media-discovers-bls-jobs
They have lied about what's happening with inflation.
https://newsletter.allfactsmatter.us/p/stagflation-the-rise-and-fall-of
In the face of this much illogic and insanity, we have to seriously question the premise that corporate media or the Democrats know anything at all. We need to start seriously entertaining the premise that they really are that stupid and that ignorant.
It's bad enough getting shamed when you've actually said or done something wrong; here you're getting shamed (censored) for telling the truth. Very frustrating! I hope Bob M will start using Rumble, either with or without YouTube in addition: as far as I know, they don't censor.
"Either the folks running YouTube are living inside of a much smaller bubble than the rest of us are, and that bubble will soon be punctured by their own hubris… or *I* am living inside a smaller bubble than I thought I was, and the vast majority of the people around me are much, much stupider than I thought they were."
I think it's both, although your bubble is expanding, and theirs is getting stretched.
This same problem is writ large on the regime. They need ever greater levels of control in order to maintain power. This causes more people to notice and push back, and now we're in a feedback loop.
It's hilarious to me they're using AI to do this, and it's already a cock-up.
Great post Bretigne. I covered YouTube's adoption of this policy for FEE in April 2020. https://fee.org/articles/youtube-to-ban-content-that-contradicts-who-on-covid-19-despite-the-un-agency-s-catastrophic-track-record-of-misinformation/
Oh! I missed that one. Thanks!!