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YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations (theintercept.com)
submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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**You Tube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups' accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

"Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws," YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.**

It is high time people moved to peertube.tv.

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[–] zd9@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I wouldn't put it past Google to help censor for Israel, but there's a very real chance that these videos may have just violated whatever obtuse terms they have, maybe something with gore/violence? I don't know.

[–] Deebster@programming.dev 46 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The article shows that that's not what's going on:

YouTube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.

Did you read the article or just the headline?

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Who reads any article these days? Only total losers and bozos read anything more than the headline.

(I read a different article that was much shorter from reddit, then saw this headline)

edit: also that's terrible then, because it's direct state interference.

[–] Kissaki@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

On Lemmy web you don't even have to open the article. This info/content is in the content teaser.

[–] Cassanderer@thelemmy.club -2 points 3 days ago

You are giving youtube the benefit of the doubt, on israel, and 36 people agreed? Jesus christ.