YouTube Censors For Israel

YouTube Censors For Israel

This from a reader:

Here is what happened with the tweet on my account: https://x.com/rethinkwar 

I posted a simple tweet about your article: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/06/19/is-trumps-constituency-netanyahu-or-maga-america/ 

It contained these two quotes:

“Iran has done nothing to America. It has not attacked us, sanctioned us, frozen our bank reserves, forbidden trade with us, assassinated any of our leaders. These are things that Washington has done to Iran. Why? Because Netanyahu told us to.”

and

“Why does Trump want to be best friend with a government that for 21 months bombed and starved Palestinian civilians, green-lighted Israeli soldiers to shoot babies and children in the head, and is now relying on starvation and disease to finish off the Palestinian population, forcefully preventing food, water, and medicine from entering Gaza?  Would you want to be friends with Netanyahu?  Can you respect a president who not only wants to be friends  with a genocidal maniac like Netanyahu, but is ready to take America to war for Netanyahu? I cannot.”

Within 30 seconds of paying $50 to promote the tweet, my premium subscription was canceled and my $10 was refunded. The tweet was never promoted. I have been unable to get my premium subscription back – X keeps rejecting my credit card. AI is clearly used to “moderate” content despite promises of free speech.

We have come a long way from the days when censorship was covert and publicly denied. We have now reached the point where YouTube explicitly describes how its content moderators use cutting-edge science, such as machine learning, to assist them in detecting “harmful” content on a “massive scale.” See: https://www.youtube.com/intl/ALL_uk/howyoutubeworks/our-commitments/managing-harmful-content/dee64328bda718598c2460f20f138828e142cdb473404b8f89315fa1468ec39d9d51e6bf