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I have found a lot of pro-Palestinian YouTube videos are put behind warnings pages unnecessarily - the preventing them from going viral. Here is a great exampl

I have found a lot of pro-Palestinian YouTube videos are put behind warnings pages unnecessarily - the preventing them from going viral. Here is a great example, this Chris Hayes of MSNBC news segment on the MSNBC YouTube channel where he is incredibly critical of what Israeli leaders are saying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTHVseqZdw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WTHVseqZdw Notice the warning says: "The following content may contain graphic or violent imagery" There are no such warnings on the official MSNBC website on this video, thus it is specific to YouTube: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/chris-hayes-the-war-in-gaza-must-end/vi-AA1lLwVg https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/chris-hayes-the-war-in-... I've seen this happen on another video, one calling on the games industry to be supportive of the Palestinian struggle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB_wYdn5f4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDB_wYdn5f4 You can find a ton of videos on YouTube with similar content or worse that the Chris Hayes's video that is critical of Israel, but they are allowed: https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel Here is probably the best example, here is an official IDF video that shows clearly dead bodies and there is no YouTube content warning, just a warning that the IDF put in their video - thus allowing this video to still go viral: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta7ScT67vQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta7ScT67vQ0

mtalantikite 3y ago
I was asked to sign in to watch that video, since it has a content warning. Is that something that happens to other news broadcasts dealing with war footage?
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- bhouston 3y ago
  Mostly no, a ton of these videos have graphic content, but do not have the critical aspects of Chris Hayes' video: https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel
- dijit 3y ago
  Usually yes, anything that has “on the ground” footage or even b-roll of soldiers conducting maneuvers often comes with content warnings. Even on broadcast news.
  - bhouston 3y ago
    That is not the case if you look at MSNBC's videos of the war - my quick sampling is that the large majority do not have content warnings: https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel
DarkByte 3y ago
This is extremely concerning and hints at a potential intentional organized suppression of information that is calling out the horrors that are being committed in Gaza.
- giraffe_lady 3y ago
  It has been going on for decades, openly discussed among pro-palestine activists in the US since the early days of social media. One of the first and most reliable "mainstream" users of reddit was israel posting "idf thirst traps" though that nomenclature didn't exist for it back then. I was a mod of a few semi-popular subs back then and we'd get bombarded by requests to remove comments critical of israel in those threads. A few times messaged by state employees under their real names making their case for a pro-israel mod stance. This was like circa 2008-2011, real ron paul le bacon atheism obama days.
  - DarkByte 3y ago
    Terrifying. Thank you for sharing your story.
- davidf18 3y ago
  Actually, the fact that Gazans are far better off than Syrians and other Arabs in other conflicts is rarely discussed. Israel is required to destroy Hamas in Gaza as the US was required to destroy Germany and Japan. But Israel has been using hi-tech weaponry rarely discussed even on HN, a tech website. For example, Iron Sting, a mortar guided by both GPS and laser is used even at night so that when a Hamas terrorist emerges from tunnels, they are immediately blown up. This helps to preserve Gazan civilian lives but not discussed in the media. Iron Sting Mortar | How it Works | Israel Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueA6HIA0Pg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueA6HIA0Pg Rarely mentioned by the media is that Hamas builds command and control centers under hospitals intentionally putting civilians in harms way.
  - epups 3y ago
    They should use more of these smart rockets, because so far their dumb ones have leveled Gaza and killed over 10,000 children.
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LAC-Tech 3y ago
Youtube has a long running partnership with the ADL, an influential zionist organisation in America. Here's an article from 2008, from the Jersualem Post. https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/ADL-YouTube-launch-partnership-to-fight-video-abuse https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/ADL-YouTube-l...

mtalantikite 3y ago

I was asked to sign in to watch that video, since it has a content warning. Is that something that happens to other news broadcasts dealing with war footage?

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bhouston 3y ago
Mostly no, a ton of these videos have graphic content, but do not have the critical aspects of Chris Hayes' video: https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel
dijit 3y ago
Usually yes, anything that has “on the ground” footage or even b-roll of soldiers conducting maneuvers often comes with content warnings. Even on broadcast news.
- bhouston 3y ago
  That is not the case if you look at MSNBC's videos of the war - my quick sampling is that the large majority do not have content warnings: https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel https://www.youtube.com/@msnbc/search?query=israel

DarkByte 3y ago

This is extremely concerning and hints at a potential intentional organized suppression of information that is calling out the horrors that are being committed in Gaza.

giraffe_lady 3y ago
It has been going on for decades, openly discussed among pro-palestine activists in the US since the early days of social media. One of the first and most reliable "mainstream" users of reddit was israel posting "idf thirst traps" though that nomenclature didn't exist for it back then. I was a mod of a few semi-popular subs back then and we'd get bombarded by requests to remove comments critical of israel in those threads. A few times messaged by state employees under their real names making their case for a pro-israel mod stance. This was like circa 2008-2011, real ron paul le bacon atheism obama days.
- DarkByte 3y ago
  Terrifying. Thank you for sharing your story.
davidf18 3y ago
Actually, the fact that Gazans are far better off than Syrians and other Arabs in other conflicts is rarely discussed. Israel is required to destroy Hamas in Gaza as the US was required to destroy Germany and Japan. But Israel has been using hi-tech weaponry rarely discussed even on HN, a tech website. For example, Iron Sting, a mortar guided by both GPS and laser is used even at night so that when a Hamas terrorist emerges from tunnels, they are immediately blown up. This helps to preserve Gazan civilian lives but not discussed in the media. Iron Sting Mortar | How it Works | Israel Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueA6HIA0Pg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UueA6HIA0Pg Rarely mentioned by the media is that Hamas builds command and control centers under hospitals intentionally putting civilians in harms way.
- epups 3y ago
  They should use more of these smart rockets, because so far their dumb ones have leveled Gaza and killed over 10,000 children.

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LAC-Tech 3y ago

Youtube has a long running partnership with the ADL, an influential zionist organisation in America. Here's an article from 2008, from the Jersualem Post. https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/ADL-YouTube-launch-partnership-to-fight-video-abuse https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/ADL-YouTube-l...