Basically if they're big enough (like Twitter or Facebook) then they'll be nearly untouchable, but if they're a little guy like Gab they can bully them and pull the rug under them :-/

WIkileaks thing shadow banned on Twitter

These accounts are locked @wikileaks @assangedefence @wltaskforce @assangelegal and cannot be accessed,” Hrafnsson recently tweeted.

“>They also seem to have been shadow banned. Should we be worried in these critical times?”

The Washington Post discovered that "more than half" of YouTube's top 20 search results for "RBG," the nickname for US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were known fake conspiracy theory videos. In fact, just one of the results came from a well-established news outlet. And if you played one of those videos, the recommendations quickly shifted to more extreme conspiracies.

The site addressed the skewed results shortly after the Post got in touch, promoting more authentic videos.

You'll be surprised with Youtube by the end of this year. We even can get special tools for companies so they can tell that videos about their product they like that that are fake conspiracy shit about real issues and hence must be excluded from search.

Maybe they'll make the web so controlled and pointless that I can finally cut the cord and get a life

Roku - After the InfoWars channel became available, we heard from concerned parties and have determined that the channel should be removed from our platform. Deletion from the channel store and platform has begun and will be completed shortly.

Roku did not say that InfoWars had now broken any of its rules, as most of the other platforms that have removed the channel have done. It did not clarify whether the “concerned parties” were users, or advertisers who didn’t want their brands displayed next to the InfoWars channel.

See. Big progress. Now they hear from someone, no need to reference any rules anymore.

YouTube says it will stop recommending conspiracy videos.

Youtube now won't suggest "borderline" videos that come close to violating community guidelines or those which "misinform users in a harmful way."

Examples of the types of videos it will bury include 9/11 misinformation.

And this, guys, in crime even under capitalist laws.

An algorithm will decide which videos won't appear in recommendations, rather than people (though humans will help train the AI).

And this is done to avoid blame.

https://youtube.googleblog.com/2019/01/continuing-our-work-to-improve.html

Seems like Yotube is preparing something big

AT&T has pulled all advertising from YouTube while the streaming service deals with issues regarding predatory comments being left on videos of children.

Disney, Nestlé, and Fortnite maker Epic Games have also pulled ads from YouTube this week.

Did this guys open any videos that are in "Trending"?

Predatory comments are really nothing compared to this piles of crap.

And this videos are showing top of ads.

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me - and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Famous quote, and even the order will be same after they end up with all "fake news" and "conspiracy theories".

Even this year we will see tens of thousands of channels banning upon their content.

WhatsApp appears to be working on a new feature to help users identify whether an image they receive is legitimate or not.

Read - this guys will recognize and store all info about images you send.

Drop WhatsApp fully and move to Telegram, nice place to read PV.

Seems like staged event had been used as major drills reason.

Internet providers in New Zealand aren't relying solely on companies like Facebook and YouTube to get rid of the Christchurch mass shooter's video. Major ISPs in the country, including Vodafone, Spark and Vocus, are working together to block access at the DNS level to websites that don't quickly respond to video takedown requests. The move quickly cut off access to multiple sites, including 4chan, 8chan (where the shooter was a member), LiveLeak and file transfer site Mega.

Yesterday, Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos of the attack in the first 24 hours after the shooting.

While YouTube did not say precisely how many videos it ultimately removed, the company faced a similar flood of videos after the shooting, and moderators worked through the night to take down tens of thousands of videos with the footage, chief product officer Neal Mohan told the Post.

Not a random thing. Guys intentionally advertised video via all main media channels and after this tested new tech they have to prevent unnecessary info from spreading.

Australia pledged Saturday to introduce new laws that could see social media executives jailed and tech giants fined billions for failing to remove extremist material from their platforms.

The tough new legislation will be brought to parliament next week as Canberra pushes for social media companies to prevent their platforms from being "weaponised" by terrorists in the wake of the Christchurch mosque attacks.

"Big social media companies have a responsibility to take every possible action to ensure their technology products are not exploited by murderous terrorists," Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a statement.

Morrison, who met with a number of tech firms Tuesday—including Facebook, Twitter and Google—said Australia would encourage other G20 nations to hold social media firms to account.

Attorney-General Christian Porter said the new laws would make it a criminal offence for platforms not to "expeditiously" take down "abhorrent violent material" like terror attacks, murder or rape.

Executives could face up to three years in prison for failing to do so, he added, while social media platforms—whose annual revenues can stretch into the tens of billions—would face fines of up to ten percent of their annual turnover.

And now they make situation where they can say "we are forced to do this" :-)

Ruling class starting to become serious on Youtube

In the first three months of 2019, Google manually reviewed more than a million suspected "terrorist videos" on YouTube, Reuters reports. Of those reviewed, it deemed 90,000 violated its terrorism policy.

The company has more than 10,000 people working on content review and they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on this.

Seems like they start to realize dangers, hope it won't buy them much time.

Crossfit, the high-intensity gym program, released a statement this past Thursday slamming Facebook for the unexplained removal of its content as well the company's lack of self-responsibility as the "de facto authority over the public square.

That group advocates low-carb, high-fat diets -- something that not everybody in the health community agrees upon.

Wrong diet - ban! Nice progress.