**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.
Alternative title: Trump administration forces YouTube to delete more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations
Forces implies an unwillingness and resistance. Knowing YouTube, they were probably more than happy to help in the covering up of war crimes.
What would the legal consequences be if YouTube did not comply with the sanctions and refused to delete the videos / accounts? Are they caving because they don’t give a damn, or because they have no choice?
They are caving because they are paid to.
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.
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?
On Lemmy web you don’t even have to open the article. This info/content is in the content teaser.
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.
This was my immediate guess. Not even obtuse terms, just not wanting kids to stumble on torture porn and snuff films
https://web.archive.org/web/20250108193449/http:/www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXjVDKILC3s
https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=2564706803864135&vanity=pchrgaza
It seems to be documentaries and analysis of killing videos. They are also censored.
Also videos which were produced by the nonprofits but hosted on alternate YouTube channels remain active.
Looks like the YouTube boycott begins!
