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You know the news by now that Youtube has permanently deleted the Sabloktantra channel
Sabloktantra has been continuously targeted
The is the beauty of India and Youtube’s secularism is that calling Modi a fascist will get you promoted by YouTube and questioning such secularism will get you banned
But don’t worry, baba is not giving up,
he has made a new channel so please support him and help him get to 100000 subscribers by next year
What I am here to tell you today is that this is unfortunately not a new but a very serious issue
Youtube by deleting Sabloktantra’s channel is openly playing with people’s livelihoods.
And the way YouTubers have been targeted in the past, Sabloktantra might not be the last
See Who Else has been targeted by the supreme leader of Youtube
I received a strike on my channel last month for just reacting to Elvish’s Vide on Dhruv Rathee
and Elvish Yadav got a strike for make a video on Rathee
Do Politics(Ajit Bharti) had a video deleted Narsinghanand Saraswati
Sirf News account got restricted
Nitin Shukla got his video deleted
These are but a few examples of such targeting of non-left creators by YouTube
Why these strikes happened its hard to know because Youtube’s interpretation of its rules of conduct is as vague
as knowing how Sanjay Dutt killed the whole Pakistani army with one knife in Bhuj
And the irony is, YouTube CEO is getting a “FRee SPeech Award”
In which she is talking about the importance of different perspectives
Irony will end its life
The big problem is, that it's not just YouTube: other portals that are run by Leftists have also attacked non-Left creators
Wikipedia has blacklisted OpINdia, TFIpost and SwarajyaMag
And has banned many non-left creators and journalists from making entries on their platform
Accounts like Team Saath on Twitter use mass reporting to shut down accounts
Twitter users have been targeted by them
Instead, Twitter openly works with organizations like L*wde ka fact checker AKA alt news to restrict people’s speech
Remember Taliban is allowed on twitter but not Trump
Someone made a joke that trump should disguise himself as a Taliban member to come back on twitter
I think its a good point, I think that to protect myself I should declare my channel “Taliban associated media” and announce a press conference
then I also might be declared a human rights organization and spared
Some say this is just a "Sanghi" conspiracy theory. Problem is, its not just “Sanghis” who think like this
Look at the US
75 % of US adults think social media censors’ political views
67% of US Population has no confidence that Big Tech will censor political views in a correct and fair manner
Ironically, YT is banned and censored in non-democratic countries like China, but censors’ content itself in democratic countries like India
How do we deal with this?
banning isn't quite the answer
Social Media gets abused but I think its a very useful medium for the non-left.
Mass proliferation of social media after 2010 is what created the rise of the non left, Hindutva and the BJP’s success.
But something needs to be done
some say: "If you don't like one social network, join another or just build your own,"
this hasn;t quite worked in practice
the rapid exclusion of Parler has finished off this argument once and for all
Recently reinstated but warned that it can easily be banned again
Finally look at how the courts act
They just ask people to move platforms
Our milords, if you ask them what tiktok is they will say a bird. What do they know or care about SM and what it takes to build a following or a career on it?
What to do
While the IT rules by the government are a step in the right direction, I believe more needs to be done to protect independent creators
Poland(photo) has proposed a law establishing a "Freedom of Speech Council" to guarantee that Polish citizens are not arbitrarily manipulated by Big Tech companies
the draft law prepared by the justice ministry would make it illegal for social media companies to remove posts that did not break Polish law
users would be able to file a court petition to force social media companies to restore removed content if they believed it did not violate Polish law
The court would rule within seven days and the process would be fully electronic
If the use is right, then they will be reinstated and social media company will pay a fine
In The US, North Dakota and Florida have tries to pass bills against unfair deplatforming
Financial independence. Support creators financially
Join their Patreon, become members on YouTube, send UPI payments. Help them become independent. If you can’t pay, offer your expertise/support in other ways, like editing, website designs
Its very important to ensure that these creators are independent financially
It might be time to reduce our dependence of YouTube for income and exposure
Our own platforms, services where people can subscribe to YouTubers/Content creators for a fee, but the creative control is completely in the hands of the creators