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A DOCUMENTARY FEATURING mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.

YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

The move came in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

just a friendly reminder that peer.tube exists.

[–] foggianism@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

it does YouTube but not shitty.

oh and it's decentralized and federated.

so that means if you want your content to never be subjected to bullshit copyright strikes, or bullshit moderation, or just general corporate bullshit it's probably a solution you should look at.

host your own instance, keep your furry-based tech show videos up as long as other instances will not block them.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 23 points 1 day ago (3 children)

People say that the internet never forgets... but they didnt take into account the centralization of the internet and the control they have over the content.

It might be crazy to think this... but imagine in a few years all videos and posts and articles on various sites documenting the genocide were fully purged. Leaving only people's frail memory of events. Even the IDF and Israeli civilians incredibly incriminating videos would be removed, and anyone caught with an archive on a personal device could be criminally charged or have it taken from them for destruction.

Basically this shit is beyond 1984. And I don't use 1984 that often as a metaphor.

[–] citrusrx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It might be crazy to think this... but imagine in a few years all >videos and posts and articles on various sites documenting the >genocide were fully purged. Leaving only people's frail memory of >events.

When you realize that this is the way a majority of people (at least in america) live by default, its really not that crazy. I work a blue collar job and I promise you no one out here gives a shit about any of this. If given the option, they would probably willingly and purposefully "push delete" on this entire topic because they are sick of hearing about "the bullshit". Also why data archival is of utmost importance.*

[–] citrusrx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I dont know how formatting works. But i think I got my point across either way.

[–] eletes@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

There's a vast amount on TikTok I imagine will be scrubbed after the sale finalizes

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The internet never forgets, but only for those things the internet wants to remember.

Forreal though, the internet isn't so centralized that records could be purged like this. Made less easily publicly accessible? Sure. But I doubt rumble or bitleaks or the thousand other sites that popped up and mirrored LiveLeaks after it shut down are going to all cooperate with that idea.

[–] reddifuge@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But they allow far right extremist content.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

They actively encourage it in fact.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

This is complicity in genocide.

[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Does anyone got those videos as a torrent so I can seed them ?

I curse myself for not downloading them... but there was so so so so so so so so goddamn much...

Well, YouTube obeys its BIG BROTHER like a slave, what did you expect?

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 day ago

This is what social networks do, the assholes at the top don't mind erasing accounts and deleting comments when they are inconvenient for them. It is a more effective version of book burning.

[–] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

That can't be. Every time I point out that youtube is a HORRIBLE place for people to make the source of record for movements, history, and general archival, and that blogging and text are more durable and necessary for these exact reasons, I get downvoted into oblivion. It must be a problem with reality because video good and video is the future and only reach matters.

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[–] passwordforgetter@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

YouTube has also quietly deleted all the videos of 9/11 first responders who said they heard explosions.

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Explosions of what exactly?

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 92 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I feel like aiding war criminals in deleting evidence should get your company destroyed.

Maybe not all of Alphabet unless we can prove this was an initiative started from the top, but Youtube should be diassembled for one-sidedly purging evidence. Hopefully, those accounts kept offline copies.

[–] HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I moved to NewPipe - no ads, and you can import your yt playlists and subscriptions so you don't have to start from scratch. Plus it plays in the background and if the phone screen is off

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago

It's still youtube though. The videos are still being hosted by yt

[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

The major obstacle for me is recommend videos as I almost exclusively use that and youtube knows what to show me (good factual science channels, nothing with AI used at all, gaming and tech news, essays and documentaries etc.) and no other app than the official youtube one does that as far as I'm aware. (I use ReVanced though). I've really tried to jump over to newpipe and grayjay but I miss so much and never discover any new channels through them.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Until next year when "sideloading" dies, and we're back to square one.

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I got newpipe and pipepipe for my phone and freetube for my desktop/laptop.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

NewPipe is fantastic and I encourage everyone to use it if they can, but I can't really see how it's related to the topic.

Didn't know about the subscriptions and playlists. This will probably make me try it.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago

Nothing, no matter how bad, evil, terrible, treasonous, or ihumane, will destroy youtube. Except if they fail to honor a C&D from Disney.

[–] harfang@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day ago

Boycott Google

[–] aarch0x40@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

In a move that surprises no one, Alphabet Inc rebrands to MINITRUE

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This just tells me that Israel has pedo videos of the decision makers at Google.

[–] 100_kg_90_de_belin@feddit.it 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It isn't even like that, Alphabet is humoring Trump and the global far right because it's more profitable, just like being "woke" was more profitable for them in the past.

[–] passwordforgetter@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 day ago

This is a good point. YouTube is competing with Rumble in this regard and I believe that's why YouTube recently unbanned many users.

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