My latest in PJ Media:
YouTube is acting increasingly as a propaganda arm for the political and media elites, censoring content that does not conform to the Leftist agenda. Now it is going even farther, putting restrictions on content that is designed to counteract Leftist indoctrination and inform young people in particular of uncomfortable truths that the Left would prefer they (and you) did not know. On Wednesday, the Young America’s Foundation (YAF), a conservative youth group with chapters on many college and university campuses, revealed that YouTube had put an age restriction on a video of a speech from one of their recent conferences. The offending video was a hard-hitting presentation about the human cost of socialism. It’s easy to see why the elites, as they do their best to railroad us into socialism, would find that threatening.
If there is anything that young people aren’t being taught in today’s woke public schools, it is the devastation that the socialist ideology of Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the rest of the Democrat party’s key figures has wrought upon the world. And so at YAF’s recent Exposing Communism Seminar, George Harbison, a writer, speaker, and conservative activist, gave a presentation entitled “The Victims of Socialism.”
To be sure, some of Harbison’s presentation is disturbing stuff: images of people suffering in gulags, or being summarily executed, or starving as a result of socialist economic policies. We see piles of the skulls of those who were executed for the cause of social justice, and other images of the abject misery that socialism inflicts upon human society. Harbison, meanwhile, offers a precise, sober, and meticulously documented narration that ties the images together and makes it clear that socialism is not or should not be an attractive political option for anyone today.
That’s not the sort of message YouTube wants the peasants to hear. So shortly after Harbison’s video was uploaded onto the platform, YouTube sent YAF a message: “We have reviewed your content and determined that it may not be suitable for viewers under the age of 18…. We age-restrict content when we don’t think it’s suitable for younger audiences. This means it will not be visible to users who are logged out, are under 18 years of age, or have Restricted Mode enabled.”
Well, of course. We don’t want tender youth learning that the gift-bag of taxpayer-funded goodies that their political heroes are offering them comes with a very serious catch, or that the policies of those heroes have all too often historically led straight to totalitarianism and mass government-sponsored murder. That might make them reluctant to vote for Democrats, and we can’t have that, now, can we?
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Henry Dillon Mansfield says
A younger relative was excited by promises of a $15 minimum wage.
I was with this person one day doing errands when I sensed the opportunity for a teaching moment. I pulled into a supermarket and as we walked through the store I explained that every other person we saw working there would end up on the unemployment line the day after that minimum wage went into effect, with the remaining employees working harder to pick up the slack.
I went on to explain that in areas where wages are high enough so that the floor on wages is high the prices for daily needs are higher as well.
The cascade of unforeseen effects that come with Leftist policies should be well known, it doesn’t come as a surprise that Democrats focus a lot of their electoral efforts on young people and retirees. The first group is gullible and much of the second just doesn’t care anymore.
Infidel says
If kids are banned from seeing videos about the horrors of communism (since they involved genocide and other forms of human suffering), then advocates of communism (particularly in our schools) should be banned from teaching kids anything about socialism until they come of age. The age in question being the one where YouTube and others think that they should be allowed to see it
On a different note, congratulations to Rumble on its merger w/ CFVI, whatever that company is
James Lincoln says
+1
Walter Sieruk says
This above posting is about Youtube and socialism is ,somewhat , a reminder that Joe Biden is mindlessly or viciously continuing the same old flawed socialist policies of former boss ,Obama, maybe Obama is still Biden’s real boss ?
Nevertheless the harm done to the United States economy as seen by all the Americans who have lose the jobs because of Biden is awful.
Furthermore, the high prices for fuel and the gas station and at the grocery store, the supermarket empty shelves are becoming more and empty. Likewise, prices are growing higher. Things will get worse.
All because of that Joe Biden with his socialist economics along with the power elate who hold him up in power– Damn them.
gravenimage says
YouTube Slaps Age Restriction on Video about Victims of Socialism
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Just grotesque–as is the idea that you have to be 18 to hear that Communism is a bad thing. Note that YouTube doesn’t say that anything in this video is inaccurate.