Last week I wrote about Twitter cancelling conservative Christian group “Focus on the Family.” This week its YouTube’s turn. ReclaimTheNet reports.
The YouTube channel for LifeSiteNews, a non-profit Christian news outlet, has been purged from the platform for “violating YouTube’s community guidelines.”
“YouTube just completely removed the LifeSiteNews YouTube channel,” LifeSiteNews wrote in a post about the channel termination. “This isn’t a temporary ban; every single one of our videos is completely gone. Thankfully, we have backups of all our videos, but this means hundreds of thousands of people have lost access to our truth-telling content.”
LifeSiteNews added that backups of its content are available on the YouTube alternative Rumble.
[…]In the months leading up to the channel’s termination, YouTube had censored LifeSiteNews for posting videos that went against the platform’s strict guidelines on COVID-19.
In other words banned for going against the official state-sponsored narrative.
In recent weeks, independent and alternative media outlets and journalists have been increasingly impacted by YouTube’s censorship. Ford Fischer, the co-founder and editor in chief of News2Share, alternative media outlet The Epoch Times, and others have had their videos deleted or their content demonetised.
Which shows that it’s not just conservative Christian media that are in the firing line, but all conservative media. Fortunately, alternatives to Big Tech social media are being built and people are beginning to look for free speech alternatives where they know they won’t have their content erased.
YouTube has no right to decide what is truth and what isn’t. What we can do is support those who have been cancelled by following them and supporting them on alternative platforms.
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