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YouTube moves to block videos with “controversial religious or supremacist content”

Aug 4, 2017 9:12 am By Robert Spencer

As we have seen so many times before, this is being sold as a measure to stop jihad terror recruitment, but will end up being used against foes of jihad terror whom Leftist and Islamic supremacist groups defame as “hate groups.”

“YouTube Creates ‘Limbo’ for Controversial Videos,” by Anita Carey, Church Militant, August 3, 2017:

SAN BRUNO, Calif. (ChurchMilitant.com) – YouTube and other internet technology companies are rolling out new procedures to stop “controversial religious content” from publishing on its site.

Announced on their blog Tuesday, YouTube has created a “limited state” where videos can be placed that will prevent them from getting attention. Videos placed there will be ones that are not illegal but have been flagged by users as potentially containing hate speech.

YouTube then reviews the videos, and if they are found to contain “controversial religious or supremacist content,” they will be placed behind an interstitial, where it won’t be recommended or monetized and will not have comments, likes or suggested videos.

Last month, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube formed the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism to work together to “employ and leverage technology” to “disrupt terrorists’ ability to use the internet in furthering their causes.” The goals of this initiative are to include other companies in the coalition and become a resource for other companies by providing training in best practices.

This is evidenced by YouTube’s commitment to apply Jigsaw’s Redirect Method to searches — created by a think tank owned by Google and already being employed for Google searches. YouTube notes when sensitive keywords are used in a search, “they will be redirected towards a playlist of curated YouTube videos that directly confront and debunk violent extremist messages.”

Church Militant spoke with Robert Spencer, a well-known expert on Islam who has led seminars with the FBI and armed forces, appearing on numerous news programs about the effectiveness of the redirect method. He told us, “For many years, whenever one Googled ‘jihad,’ Jihad Watch was the first result. This was back in the days when Google’s results were based on the relevance of the subject matter to the search and the popularity of the site. But now, if you search for ‘jihad,’ Google will give you a whole page full of Islamic apologetics, and Jihad Watch doesn’t appear on the front page at all.”

He reported that his site, JihadWatch.org, once had tens of thousands of referrals from Facebook and Twitter that have now trickled down to only a couple hundred and dropping. He explains that it is not because his readership has plummeted, saying, “No, quite the contrary. It is because Google is now fully committed to not allowing people to search the internet but to controlling what they find when they do,” adding, “Incidentally, when one googles ‘Robert Spencer’ now, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s hit piece on me comes up before my own website bio.”

YouTube claims to be working with several groups including the No Hate Speech Movement and the Institute for Strategic Dialogue to identify content that is “being used to radicalize and recruit extremists.”

YouTube is also planning to use “cutting-edge machine learning technology” that they boast is “faster and more effective.” They claim, “Over 75 percent of the videos we’ve removed for violent extremism over the past month were taken down before receiving a single human flag.”

They also claim the tools “have proven more accurate than humans at flagging videos that need to be removed.” That claim is hotly debated by many, especially Michelle Malkin, who complained YouTube banned her video First, They Came, but not the Imams’ radicalizing videos calling for killing innocent people — videos such as Imam Ammar Shahin’s “Annihilate the Jews” sermon, which is is still up on the site….

Church Militant asked Spencer if there are any other options for promoting his site, and he replied that there aren’t, saying, “The only recourse we have is to call attention to this until the backlash against these social media giants grows so large that their power is broken.”

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  1. Andy says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 9:39 am

    The fight for freedom!

    They’re Trying To Shut Us Down

    • Dave says

      Aug 4, 2017 at 9:42 am

      Start moving to other youtube alternatives. And build a List to keep in touch with viewers.

      And sue them for subverting free speech and allowing Islamic and Left hate mongering .

      • Shane says

        Aug 5, 2017 at 5:42 pm

        This move is about censoring sites that criticize any of the liberal’s protected groups, like Blacks, Muslims, gays, trannies, Latinos, etc… If they shut out Robert Spencer’s videos, I will stop watching YouTube for entertainment, and just watch informative videos. I know that Rebel Media is preparing for YouTube banning them, and I will try to help them.

    • Westman says

      Aug 4, 2017 at 5:42 pm

      George Orwell knew it would come to this – the selective erasure of history in compliance to the demands of governments and special interests. Typically information on the web lasted forever. Now history will be erased by denying access or deletion. Certainly Orwell had no idea that “Winston” would be replaced by Google, YouTube, and the like, or, that automated “robot” software would make the decisions instead of humans.

      This is the beginning of an Oligarchy-controlled society in which our range of thought will be conditioned to serve the interests of government, liberalism, and the economic engines. Morality will be defined as those attributes that promote economic interests.

      Dwight Eisenhower’s warning did not have any notion that a socialist-oligarch-Islam-complex would ever arrive and be, in effect, more powerful than the military-industrial complex.

      There is only one solution: Opposition forces must have their own communication systems. Better yet, they should join forces to produce service on a large scale that will compete with the giants. Reach enough people and the advertisers will buy time with ad money withheld from the giants. The key to success is size. Like the founding fathers, hang together economically or hang separate to dry,

      • Arthur says

        Aug 4, 2017 at 7:13 pm

        Agreed. But in a world where people can barely be bothered to look up from their phone texts to see the road in front of them, I fear the future is bleak.

  2. Andy says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 9:59 am

    The fight for freedom!

  3. John A. Marre says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 10:06 am

    With these people, controversial is protesting against rape and murder, but inciting to rape and murder is not controversial.

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 10:23 am

    The Leftards do not define their terms, so that there can be no legal way to oppose them. What they are doing is to remove the freedom of speech from the internet, based on a their incomplete understanding of Islamic supremacism.

    The Leftards refuse to learn the Islamic doctrines of JIHAD, TAQIYYA, SUPREMACISM, HATRED of KAFIRS, ISLAMIC APARHEID, ISLAMIC MISOGYNY and so, they are totally clueless about the issues.

    Making policy without even KNOWING what the issues are (let alone understanding those issues) is EMPTY-HEADED, VIRTUE-SIGNALLING, PEACOCKING CLUELESSNESS and SLAPHAPPY SMUGNESS.

  5. mortimer says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 10:51 am

    YOUTUBE (had it existed) would have told us during World War II that 1) we may not express HATRED towards NAZISM, 2) we may not show NAZI ATROCITIES on youtube 3) we may not discuss the ‘CONTROVESY’ of the NAZI MASTER RACE doctrine, because NOT ALL Germans are Nazis.

  6. Andy says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 11:01 am

    ‘Cosmopolitan Bias’

    Check this out:

    Stephen Miller BRUTALIZES (fake news) CNN’s Whiny Jim Acosta

    • Andy says

      Aug 4, 2017 at 11:04 am

      COUP to Remove President Trump

  7. stan lee says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 11:19 am

    The fact that an Imam’s inflametory sermon remained on U-Tube, but counter messages to that sermon were blocked by Google, indicates only one issue. And, that issue has to be partiality shown to Imams and their messages to urge Muslims to obey the directives as stated in the koran. That had to be a decision in U-Tube’s management offices.and very insensitive it is! It does not speak well for Google’s obviously partiality towards Muslim use of U-Tube to propagandize. I wonder if Google would react differently, possibly with impartiality, if Google’s U-Tube viewer penetration would substantially shrink? U-Tube is not an absolute necessity to American life, I think it’s favored because it doesn’t require reading and thought, and as a people we have come to expect issues to be presented requiring little to no thought processes. But, that is our problem, upon which U-Tube capitalizes.
    The message in the koran which specifies Islam’s hate specifically for Jews has been a message dispensed and distributed by Islam for fourteen centuries (1400 years). One would think that such a message has been firmly established in all that time.
    Yet, we read of Muslims, wounded/injured from the Syrian civil war battlefields going to Israeli medical centers to have their lives saved. Do they stop hating Jews as they are attended to in those Israeli hospitals? And, do they need reminders from bitter Imams reminding them that Jews are to be hated?
    After all, most of those Imams depend upon Muslim attendance to their mosques, no doubt in each mosque will be at least one money collection point. Therefore, Imams do all in their power to maintain strong attendance to their mosques, they need the “voluntary” sustenance and subscribers.

  8. Dara Shikoh says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 1:20 pm

    The fact is that Google has been cowed down and threatend by Islamists,Terrorists,ISIS and muslim countrys.What a weak management is of Google and U-Tube.Has Google been given lot of money either to shut up the rational voice of anti-islamic scholars and writers. Google has throteled the freedom of expression of forceful critics and reasonings. Or there must be some cunning Koranists or Mohamadists or agent of Islam.Whatever is one thing is clear that Google and U-tube are afraid of the neusanse valu of Islam. i spit on Google for this cawardly act.

  9. Andy says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 1:28 pm

    BREAKING: AG Jeff Sessions to Subpoena Fake News Media that Leaks Classified Information!

    • Andy says

      Aug 4, 2017 at 2:13 pm

    • Homosaps says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 9:51 am

      Sessions is “an old bitch, gone in the teeth.” Sessions has singlehandly delivered the DOJ into the hands of the Democrat enemies of Trump by his unfathomable recusal and ineffectiveness. He has done nothing to eliminate the leaks, done nothing to prosecute Comey, Hillary, McCabe, Lynch, Hillary et al., even in the face of mountains of evidence detailing their crimes. Sessions recusal has led to the Mueller dog and pony show. Sessions needs to be sent to the glue factory where he belongs.

  10. pdxnag says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 1:36 pm

    Virtual Gulag. Great preparation for working for an Islamist government.

  11. Schrödinger says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 2:40 pm

    Jihadists, islamophiles, muslim apologists, useful idiots alike may all rest assured the islamic world and YouTube both fully concur there’s no controversial religious or supremacist content, really nothing in the slightest bit ridiculous or offensive or alarming in any of the following YouTube specials, all from the horse’s mouth and none in any way jeopardised under the auspices of the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism:

    https://www.memri.org/tv/saudi-cleric-muhammad-al-munajid-mickey-mouse-must-die

    https://www.memri.org/tv/archival-strongest-man-egypt-married-four-wives-because-he-has-have-sex-15-times-day

    https://www.memri.org/tv/saudi-government-appointed-executioner-mecca-abdallah-al-bishi-discusses-his-calling-and

    Those in any way likely to be upset by the banalisation of violence — extreme violence — need be cautioned before watching the disturbing televised interview with Saudi Arabia’s Lord High Executioner Abdallah Al-Bishi (actually, he’s but one of several). Just say the Shahada and you too may book your holiday to Mecca.

    ?????

  12. somehistory says

    Aug 4, 2017 at 4:14 pm

    There are moslums in the governments, there are moslums in the BBC, moslums working behind the scenes at the major news organizations, even owing some..

    Probably many moslums having a say about what is shown and what is blocked or taken down.

    It’s going to get worse.

  13. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Aug 5, 2017 at 1:04 am

    http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/07/28/report-steve-bannon-wants-google-facebook-to-be-regulated-like-utilities/

  14. John Forbes says

    Aug 5, 2017 at 4:51 am

    Not really a suprise ! This has been the COWARDS response in all cases ! SHOOT the messenger & do nothing about the issue !
    Look at the CHILD RAPING INDUSTRY ! Government & POLICE held the SILENCE for over TWO decades & even NOW are doing next to NOTHING & the RAPING is getting more wide spread & equally nasty ! SOME CHILD RAPE monsters are to be let OUT after serving only a FRACTION of the announced ( usually a time the public would like to hear but NEVER actually true time served) time!
    DOUGLAS MURRAY again say it best ! The authorities have poked at HARMLESS hornets nests BUT once they encounter a REAL one like ISLAM they RUN AWAY !!

  15. Jack Holan says

    Aug 5, 2017 at 7:48 am

    Corporate Leftist Fascism unleashed by the Green light from Barack Hussein Obama It occurred coincidentally at the same time as the big push by the OIC and UN Rule 16/18 and Frau Merkel grabbing young starry eyed naive Leftist Zuckerberg & lecturing him on the merits of State/Control of information. After all they know best, don’t they? This Deje Vu of another time and another place. Does anyone think Angela can guess what the answer is or Harvard educated Zuckerberg? Did anyone hear his commencement speech to the Harvard Grads? Talk about infantile and sounding child-like (not just the voice) his speech fit the bill. You would have thought he was a Graduating Senior in High School giving a Valedictorian Speech. This guy is going to be a censor who determines what I read? Never

  16. moeped says

    Aug 5, 2017 at 3:15 pm

    Fuck youtube and facebook, we need Truthtube and Freedombook.

    • Andy says

      Aug 6, 2017 at 1:33 am

      Never signed up to (and never will) facebook.

      Goddamn western world elites have allowed the enemies to simply just walk into there nations and start to ruin it for everyone. Traitorous bastards!

      I’m afraid we are going to have one helluva big fight on our hands.

      • John Forbes says

        Aug 6, 2017 at 4:11 am

        It is now time to fight back hard ! The LEFTISTS & SOROS & ISLAMISTS & GLOBALISTS want to spread Chaos & destroy Trump & the US & it is time to begin by arresting SOROS !

        Soros I believe is the KEY to disrupting this entire thing along with ANTIFA & may other SOROS funded groups !

        He is the MASSIVE FUNDING machine behind the Immigration flood into Europe & Canada !!
        STOP SOROS & you end much of this & disrupt the entire operation !~

  17. Carole says

    Aug 7, 2017 at 6:51 pm

    I just doublechecked a few sites on my compu and am happy to say that when I google the name “Robert Spencer”, a lot of decent articles come up about you, and the Southern Poverty mention is about 10 categories down.. I checked “First They Came” and it is up. I checked “Annihilate the Jews” and it is down. I thought it could be cookies, but I have never reached any of those categories before, especially since I am a subscriber to Jihad Watch, that keeps me informed enough.

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