Leo D.M.J. Aurini - YouTube Censorship, and the Logic of Empire

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00:00:30.000 So here we are again. YouTube is, again, censoring content creators, acting punitively towards anybody on the right.

00:00:42.380 And now here's the challenge, is how do I make this video again and make it remotely engaging?

00:00:50.700 Well, I think what I'm going to do is first we need to cover what's happening right now, because there's probably a little bit more than you've heard about going on.

00:00:58.640 But then I want to talk about the bigger picture, because this is actually nothing new, and Google's been doing this since back when they still had the motto, don't be evil.

00:01:12.140 So what's happening right now?

00:01:15.440 Well, the big thing is that there has been a wave of demonetizations of videos of various content creators.

00:01:27.100 I've posted a few of the ones that I've had demonetized.

00:01:31.200 There have been more since then, and I got sick of posting it.

00:01:35.260 And the funny thing is, these are all ancient videos.

00:01:39.500 Okay, these are videos a year old, three years old.

00:01:43.340 Many of them, again, they're non-controversial.

00:01:46.600 You know, I had a problem with this a year ago.

00:01:49.580 And back then, Google's problem is that I was discussing the Bible.

00:01:53.540 They actually completely pulled some of those videos down.

00:01:55.800 The video where I pointed out that the current paradigm is corporate boyfriend and daddy government for women, 1.00

00:02:03.720 just sucking the life out of them until they're 40, useless, single, infertile, and then they get spat out into the street. 0.99

00:02:11.300 That one got pulled. 0.99

00:02:13.620 And this is what's happening to a lot of other people.

00:02:16.100 Okay, it's happening to Stixenhammer.

00:02:18.300 I'm going to get back to him towards the end.

00:02:20.620 It's happening to Matt Forney.

00:02:22.040 It's happening to Ramsey Paul.

00:02:23.780 It's anybody and everybody who's on the right is having this nonsense being played with them.

00:02:33.180 But, you know, that's not all that's going on.

00:02:35.860 Okay?

00:02:36.100 At the same time as they're demonetizing all these videos, what they've done is they've now given advertisers the choice to select which channels, which videos their ads play on.

00:02:50.600 And this right here is political control.

00:02:56.760 We're not talking about being able to target the advertisements.

00:03:00.760 Okay?

00:03:01.060 Targeting advertisements is great.

00:03:03.440 You know, you want to target men 25 to 35 or women, you know, 18 to 28.

00:03:10.320 Targeting your advertisements allows you to get the correct demographic.

00:03:14.160 But now that you can opt out of channels, now all of a sudden, all of a sudden, the corporation, the advertisers, they have to have an opinion on where their ads are playing.

00:03:29.320 The reality is that they do not want this.

00:03:32.100 Okay?

00:03:33.540 If you just leave it wide open and anybody of any political stripe is allowed to, you know, have advertisements and they're targeted towards the demographic, that is what the advertisers actually want.

00:03:46.460 Because then nobody can complain.

00:03:48.760 They can say, sorry, we just don't have the tools to do that.

00:03:51.980 But they developed this tool knowing that the voices on the right would be the ones getting silenced.

00:03:58.340 And so that's the second level of control that we have.

00:04:04.940 The third level, and this is the most significant in my opinion.

00:04:10.300 Okay?

00:04:10.600 The other two are just harassment.

00:04:12.520 They're a financial attack on the creators.

00:04:16.480 But the thing about content creators, about artists, writers, etc., is that they're still going to be writing and creating content whether or not they're getting paid.

00:04:27.480 To put it perfectly bluntly.

00:04:30.700 What they're doing in addition to all of this...

00:04:34.080 Oh, and on top of that, they've been unsubscribing people as well.

00:04:37.580 But I guess that's just a glitch, right?

00:04:39.380 What they've been doing is censoring comments.

00:04:43.140 If you leave a comment and then you log out or if you check in a different browser, the comment might not be there.

00:04:50.160 You know, you might have 4,000 comments when you look at it, at your own video, but then you log out and look at your video and there's only 2,000 comments showing.

00:05:00.780 And on top of this, not all of your comments are going to be censored.

00:05:06.920 And they're going to be censored in different places.

00:05:10.000 So, for instance, if you comment a lot on my videos or Aaron Clary or Roosh V or whomever, Alex Jones, you will see your comments.

00:05:21.500 Other people will see your comments.

00:05:23.360 But then if you go and comment on maybe a Fox News video, people won't see your comment there.

00:05:28.900 Because you've been labeled as a dangerous element.

00:05:31.820 Okay?

00:05:32.100 You've been labeled as somebody that's thinking outside of the box that isn't buying into the mainstream.

00:05:36.520 So, as long as you're inside your alt-right ghetto, you are allowed to have an opinion, you are allowed to converse.

00:05:43.340 That way you don't get suspicious.

00:05:45.120 But then you go and leave a comment somewhere else, and that comment disappears into the memory hole.

00:05:53.280 You know, very similar thing with Twitter holding back tweets.

00:05:55.880 And the interesting thing is it seems to be – I mean, it's very hard to tell what's going on, okay?

00:06:03.840 Because we don't get to know what the algorithm is.

00:06:06.040 They're not even admitting that they're doing this.

00:06:07.720 They're blaming it all on a glitch.

00:06:10.020 But it's clearly too targeted to be a glitch.

00:06:13.760 The interesting thing is that it's the moderate.

00:06:18.680 It's the well-thought-out.

00:06:20.260 It's the people that aren't just screaming angry rhetoric and racial slurs.

00:06:28.660 It's the people that actually have something to say who are being targeted. 1.00

00:06:35.100 Whereas the crazy voices, you know, the bullies, the harassers, whatever stupid label you want to give them, 1.00

00:06:44.220 they are being left alone. 1.00

00:06:46.520 They're allowed to still be there.

00:06:48.120 They are still showing up in different places.

00:06:50.820 And once in a while, there's one of them that gets shot down.

00:06:54.480 You know, gets their Twitter taken away.

00:06:56.400 You have it. 0.99

00:06:58.220 They're still allowed to communicate so that the only voices you hear are those extremist and ridiculous voices. 0.98

00:07:16.100 Because they don't want a real conversation. 0.99

00:07:18.120 You know, one of the things they want in America is they want the blacks to hate the whites and the whites to hate the blacks. 0.96

00:07:27.000 And so the government can get bigger. 0.88

00:07:30.080 So that both the whites and the blacks are voting for bigger government to protect them from the other race. 0.99

00:07:34.780 As opposed to anybody that's saying that, you know, there are real issues, but there's ways we can deal with this.

00:07:40.840 There are differences between the races.

00:07:42.760 There are a lot of historical issues, the issues with the black family, you name it.

00:07:50.440 Any sort of subtle conversation, that's not going to be heard.

00:07:54.860 And part of the reason they do this is that they don't want you influencing other people.

00:08:01.100 But another part of the reason they do this is they want you to feel like you're isolated.

00:08:06.120 Even within the alt-right, I've been noticing certain things going off the rails with the alt-right. 0.98

00:08:19.180 Some very worrying, some very foolish extremism. 0.98

00:08:24.400 You know, the guire is getting wider, it's coming off its hinges. 0.97

00:08:29.580 But when I actually talk to anybody I know, and when they talk to other people, and so on and so forth,

00:08:37.200 there are actually a lot of reasonable people out there.

00:08:41.300 They're being slightly muted, slowed down, so that we think we're all alone.

00:08:49.880 And so we just give up at that point.

00:08:53.820 And so you've got the really crazy faction, which is, it's essentially the manufactured opposition.

00:09:02.820 That's fine.

00:09:03.880 You need a boogeyman.

00:09:05.980 Whereas the people actually trying to come up with solutions that are not the mainstream solution,

00:09:10.940 the globalist solution, these ones are being silenced.

00:09:14.480 Now, as I said, this is nothing new.

00:09:22.360 And in fact, this goes all the way back to Web 2.0,

00:09:26.120 which I honestly wonder how much of you, my audience, how many of you still remember that term.

00:09:32.480 It was the big thing back in 2006, 2007.

00:09:38.400 And the thing is that Web 2.0 has become so ubiquitous, it's become so assumed that there's no longer a word for it.

00:09:48.280 Prior to Web 2.0, to the present-day internet, they called it surfing the web,

00:09:56.380 because there weren't these things like Google.

00:09:59.880 Okay, like Google was around, but it wasn't what it is today.

00:10:03.780 Okay, you had to go and hunt for things.

00:10:06.200 You had to form communities online, and somebody would drop a link,

00:10:10.300 and then it would get shared somewhere else, and so on and so forth.

00:10:13.840 There's no way to look up, for instance, how do I pick up girls,

00:10:19.020 and you run into Return of Kings, and then Roosh V Forum,

00:10:22.640 and then you get introduced to all these other topics through the Roosh V Forum.

00:10:26.520 There wasn't anything like that.

00:10:28.480 Okay, you didn't know what was out there.

00:10:30.820 It was a very mysterious place.

00:10:33.320 And you'd run across something wonderful and awesome, and so on and so forth.

00:10:41.180 The internet's fundamentally changed in that it's being personalized for you.

00:10:46.740 Nowadays, the internet has boiled you down to a demographic.

00:10:54.040 It has figured you out.

00:10:55.740 It has a very, very specific lifestyle of who you are,

00:11:00.440 and so it's very, very good at finding relevant results.

00:11:06.880 And, you know, a lot of this started, you know, as I commented,

00:11:09.980 that what YouTube is doing now is nothing new.

00:11:12.560 They've been doing this for a while, and it started back, I remember 2008, 2009, I think it was,

00:11:20.240 when they removed the subscription button.

00:11:24.720 You know, it used to be, when it first started out, that YouTube had a subscription button right up there.

00:11:30.840 So you could watch a YouTube video, then you could click that,

00:11:33.320 and you would go to your feed of all the people that you're following.

00:11:37.020 Then they removed it.

00:11:42.380 It's still there.

00:11:45.180 It's difficult to find nowadays.

00:11:47.620 I just have a hot link to my YouTube button.

00:11:52.900 My link to it is actually to my subscription feed.

00:11:55.620 But the reason they made it harder to find your subscriptions,

00:12:00.640 I think it might still be on the front page, but it's not as obvious.

00:12:04.360 You have to scroll down for it, as opposed to it being the number one button.

00:12:10.620 It's because they want to decide what you're going to be seeing.

00:12:16.920 And this started off as a service.

00:12:23.260 You know, they would say, oh, well, you like this video, and you like this video.

00:12:26.540 Well, people that like those videos like this video.

00:12:28.900 Maybe you should give it a shot.

00:12:32.320 And that's really not such a bad system.

00:12:34.080 That's the concept of Web 2.0.

00:12:36.360 It's a very interactive, customizable thing.

00:12:38.680 It's a very interesting sort of a thing.

00:12:41.340 And it's become so ubiquitous now that we forget about it.

00:12:44.520 You know, you've got that list of videos over there, you know, to my left, your right.

00:12:51.580 And, yeah, there's probably a lot of stuff in there that you might find interesting.

00:12:59.120 I'll tell you something.

00:13:00.520 And I've been paying attention to the feed that I get along here.

00:13:05.720 And oftentimes, there's a lot of pablum.

00:13:09.500 There's a lot of nonsense.

00:13:10.760 There's, you know, I'm not seeing Alex Jones over there.

00:13:15.880 I'm not really seeing Aaron Clary.

00:13:19.760 I'm seeing Let's Plays.

00:13:21.560 I'm seeing analysis of old movies and video games.

00:13:24.880 I'm seeing stuff that I might actually enjoy, but has no deeper content to any of it.

00:13:31.460 And see, this is the bubble they're pushing.

00:13:37.200 This is the paradigm that they're pushing.

00:13:40.000 That they are going to control the information that you consume.

00:13:46.680 Unlike the old days of the web surfing where you had to, you didn't know what you were finding.

00:13:51.980 Okay, you would just find some obscure blog and you would start reading it.

00:13:55.480 And you would be very critical of it.

00:13:59.640 Not anymore.

00:14:00.920 Now they're going to tell you what you're going to watch.

00:14:03.800 They are going to help you amuse yourself to death.

00:14:06.380 They are going to help you remain distracted.

00:14:10.660 And a lot of this has to do with the mainstream media needs dominance to survive.

00:14:18.540 It's built into the very system of mainstream media.

00:14:22.900 You know, there's a great post by Delicious Tacos about why Hollywood is absolutely terrible.

00:14:30.120 And why good movies don't get made.

00:14:33.420 And what it boils down to is that a movie costs $100 million to make.

00:14:39.160 Okay, $100 million.

00:14:41.280 And it had better damn well succeed.

00:14:43.800 It had better be a successful movie.

00:14:45.920 And so they only make guaranteed bets.

00:14:50.300 And so they've got two movies they make.

00:14:51.820 The guy flick and the chick flick.

00:14:54.460 And they're basically the same thing.

00:14:55.980 It's just they're a little bit inversed.

00:14:58.200 Neither of them are realistic.

00:14:59.700 Neither of them are truly cathartic.

00:15:01.740 But that's what they make.

00:15:03.240 Because it sells.

00:15:04.600 And because it needs to freaking sell.

00:15:06.580 Because it cost $100 million to make. 0.99

00:15:09.240 And you are going to watch the damn thing. 1.00

00:15:11.720 Because if you don't watch the damn thing. 1.00

00:15:13.220 If you're watching some asshole on YouTube. 1.00

00:15:16.060 Or reading some blog. 1.00

00:15:18.080 Or watching some animated thing on Newgrounds. 1.00

00:15:21.260 You're not watching that damn Hollywood movie. 1.00

00:15:23.300 So you are going to watch that damn Hollywood movie. 1.00

00:15:25.780 And they are going to tell you what to watch. 1.00

00:15:28.020 Because that's the only way you get Hollywood movies.

00:15:30.600 And they know that you want Hollywood movies.

00:15:33.340 Because why wouldn't you?

00:15:34.860 They know what's right for you.

00:15:36.200 They know what's good for you.

00:15:37.360 They are going to tell you what is good for you.

00:15:39.260 And you are going to sit down. 1.00

00:15:40.740 Shut up. 1.00

00:15:41.200 And like it. 0.99

00:15:51.440 It's built into the methodology of the whole thing.

00:15:53.700 This attitude that I'm describing right now.

00:15:58.480 Is the globalist attitude.

00:16:00.360 They know that millions of migrants from the Middle East.

00:16:05.380 It's good for Europe.

00:16:07.400 Because otherwise Europeans might become Nazis again. 0.99

00:16:10.340 But if they can get all of these brown people to come in. 1.00

00:16:13.240 And start raping the women. 1.00

00:16:14.680 Then people will be too distracted to actually become Nazis. 1.00

00:16:18.060 And so that's good.

00:16:19.160 And the world can be in harmony once more.

00:16:23.700 What they're doing politically.

00:16:26.840 What these globalists are doing politically. 1.00

00:16:30.020 It is just as insane as Hollywood making another stupid, low quality, paint by numbers, derivative Marvel comic book movie. 1.00

00:16:43.480 And you sitting down to watch the damn thing. 1.00

00:16:46.120 It is just as stupid as that. 1.00

00:16:51.020 But it's the system. 1.00

00:16:52.360 This is the system.

00:16:54.500 It is the logic of empire.

00:16:57.720 That we are dealing with.

00:17:05.300 And so what the hell.

00:17:08.740 Are any of us supposed to do about this?

00:17:10.700 Well, as long as YouTube remains the primary platform.

00:17:17.560 There's not too much we can do to switch over to alternative sources like Dailymotion, etc.

00:17:24.840 It's simply this is where the viewers are.

00:17:26.980 So this is where we, the content creators, all need to come.

00:17:31.340 You know, I can certainly post my videos to Dailymotion.

00:17:33.980 But I would lose 75% of you if I did that.

00:17:39.340 And I would be gaining a lot less people.

00:17:43.540 And unfortunately, as soon as another platform becomes big, it will fall into the exact same logic.

00:17:51.940 Now, there's deeper forces at play right now.

00:17:59.200 Okay, there's some major shifts occurring all around us very, very rapidly.

00:18:04.300 And so during this gale, every single one of us just needs to keep our ship right.

00:18:14.680 But now that said, there are some smaller things.

00:18:18.100 Not a big, fancy revolution.

00:18:20.380 But there's some smaller things that we can do right now to resist the current desubscribing, silencing, muting, and demonetization of all these people.

00:18:31.520 And that's to, and that's to throw, throw this back into YouTube's face.

00:18:38.440 So number one, Sticks and Hammer.

00:18:41.500 And you might think it's odd for a Catholic to be recommending a pagan.

00:18:46.240 But he kind of reminds me of Merlin in That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis.

00:18:52.440 I worry about the guy, he plays some dark forces, but he's not, he's not a terrible human being.

00:18:59.640 And he's right about a lot of stuff.

00:19:01.520 And so Sticks and Hammer, go subscribe to him.

00:19:05.260 There's a link to him below.

00:19:07.220 He is promoting people so that you can find out about them and go subscribe to them.

00:19:13.980 Go subscribe to other people that are creating new and interesting content.

00:19:19.880 Okay?

00:19:20.480 And share their content.

00:19:23.540 Post it all over the place.

00:19:26.200 All right?

00:19:26.440 Get their voices out there.

00:19:28.340 Get people more subscribers to say that, listen, YouTube, even if you're not going to tell me about these people, 0.99

00:19:34.020 because I'm not supposed to learn about them, because I'm supposed to be watching your damn Hollywood movies, 0.89

00:19:40.200 or CNN, or going with whatever Fox News is telling me the world is, 0.98

00:19:44.220 the hell with that, I'm going to go find somebody that's going to challenge my preconceptions.

00:19:50.800 It's not somebody that tells me the way the world is, but somebody that challenges the way I think,

00:19:55.340 gives me new heuristics, new ideas, and I can weigh those for myself.

00:20:00.360 So, yeah, go start subscribing to some of these.

00:20:06.200 Matt Forney has done the exact same thing.

00:20:08.300 He is currently recommending people on his YouTube channel,

00:20:11.800 and he has an article listing all of his favorite YouTubers.

00:20:16.980 It's a long list, but go check them out.

00:20:19.860 See if they jive with you.

00:20:21.460 Go subscribe to them.

00:20:22.380 And, yes, keep sharing it on social media,

00:20:29.120 because if they're getting bombarded with all of that,

00:20:32.560 some of it's going to get through.

00:20:38.000 The next thing is, actually,

00:20:41.340 if you think people are making good content,

00:20:44.300 consider backing them.

00:20:46.660 Consider helping them create the content that they create.

00:20:51.080 And, listen, for my own sake,

00:20:55.160 to put my money where my mouth is,

00:21:00.220 I am going to be disabling advertisements on these videos,

00:21:08.440 on my YouTube channel.

00:21:09.920 I am no longer going to be making a deal with the devil.

00:21:15.100 If YouTube wants to say that me discussing the Bible,

00:21:23.120 or me talking about how pedophiles are bad,

00:21:26.800 yeah, that was seriously one of them, 0.82

00:21:28.120 saying that pedophiles were bad, got demonetized.

00:21:31.340 If they, okay, they're saying they don't want to monetize that,

00:21:33.700 I don't want them monetizing my videos.

00:21:36.520 So that's about $100 a month, maybe a bit more.

00:21:41.360 I'm putting that on the ground.

00:21:42.920 I don't want that money if this is going to be their attitude.

00:21:46.500 So there's me putting my money where my mouth is.

00:21:51.840 And, guys, I'm not saying necessarily back me,

00:21:53.600 but, you know, Forney's got,

00:21:55.340 he's trying to do some reporting on what's going on over there in Eastern Europe.

00:22:00.700 There's always Christopher Cantwell.

00:22:03.520 There's Ramsey Paul.

00:22:06.600 If you like the content, see if you can back them.

00:22:09.440 You know, Base FZZ.

00:22:10.360 Zed, you know, lots of people out there.

00:22:16.080 Doesn't have to be a lot either.

00:22:17.980 Don't, quite frankly, if you spent the same that you spend on a cable package,

00:22:24.360 backing, like, what's a cable package?

00:22:26.320 $30, $50?

00:22:27.760 You decide to send 30 or 50 YouTubers, 0.87

00:22:30.700 or other content creators, Return of Kings, Roosh V, whomever,

00:22:35.100 send them a buck?

00:22:38.100 You know, that makes a huge difference.

00:22:40.360 So consider doing that if you can afford it.

00:22:47.980 And really, folks, the last thing to take away from all of this,

00:22:53.240 the reason that they are fighting so hard to have such perfect dominance 0.98

00:22:58.800 is because they fucking need it. 0.98

00:23:03.280 Hollywood is hemorrhaging money right now. 0.99

00:23:05.560 It is not in a good place.

00:23:07.640 The porn industry, I'm pretty sure that's being supported by somebody else.

00:23:13.060 I can't believe for one second that they're still making any money.

00:23:17.800 The globalists.

00:23:19.320 The globalists need everybody.

00:23:22.100 They need 99% of the population thinking the same way,

00:23:26.280 believing everything they're saying.

00:23:27.640 And then the 1%, you can write them off as crazies, 0.98

00:23:30.820 dope them up, and lock them in institutions. 0.96

00:23:36.400 But as soon as that dominance slips,

00:23:39.820 the whole thing falls apart.

00:23:45.200 The reason that they are being so oppressive and totalitarian about this

00:23:50.220 is because they need to be.

00:23:54.080 They are not anti-fragile.

00:23:58.380 And they are largely a paper dragon.

00:24:04.280 You might feel sometimes

00:24:05.740 like you're the only one

00:24:07.580 who sees what's going on.

00:24:10.520 You're the only one who gets it.

00:24:12.680 You know, you feel very isolated,

00:24:14.900 but you're not.

00:24:15.700 It's just that all the other voices are being silenced.

00:24:25.220 I'm not saying everything's rosy,

00:24:26.680 because it sure as hell ain't.

00:24:27.800 There are some demographic issues.

00:24:30.860 There are some statistical issues.

00:24:35.980 Look at the reproductive rate in Western countries.

00:24:39.340 You know, there's one of them for you.

00:24:41.860 The massive debt.

00:24:42.900 That's not looking good.

00:24:43.840 I'd be prepared for,

00:24:45.800 well, who knows?

00:24:46.820 It could be next month.

00:24:47.600 It could be two years from now.

00:24:52.700 But their edifice is really, really cracking.

00:24:56.240 They are getting desperate.

00:25:02.080 They can't stop the signal.

00:25:04.780 They can try and jam it.

00:25:06.640 They can try and broadcast over top of it.

00:25:09.120 They can try and distract you from hearing the signal.

00:25:11.420 But the signal is still out there.

00:25:13.840 Do your part

00:25:15.860 in being a repeater station.

00:25:20.180 Deus Fult, folks.

00:25:22.020 God bless all of you.

00:25:24.600 Marini out.

00:25:25.280 SCOTT

00:25:33.340 Bye.

00:25:35.720 Bye.

00:25:36.420 Bye.

00:25:37.460 Bye.

00:25:46.260 Bye.

00:25:47.900 Bye.

00:25:48.700 Bye.

00:25:49.080 Bye.

00:25:49.160 Bye.

00:25:49.560 Bye.

00:25:49.700 Bye.

00:25:50.880 Bye.

00:25:51.160 Bye.

00:25:51.720 Bye.

00:25:52.220 Thank you.

Leo D.M.J. Aurini - April 01, 2017

YouTube Censorship, and the Logic of Empire

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