When someone gets censored or deplatformed, or some retards run another advertiser boycott, or these insane automoderation errors happen, it's not primarily an attack on the creator.
It's an attack on YOU. YOUR rights are being infringed.
YouTube and Twitter and Facebook are implicitly claiming that they are the arbiters of what goes in YOUR eyes and YOUR ears. They know better than you, they're a gooder heckiner person than you, they deserve to control you.
All sniveling excuses about "safety" and "misinformation" are lip service, a cheap distraction. They are after POWER. Power over what you see == power over what you think == power over what you do.
I've said it before but freedom of speech is not really a right held by the speaker, it's a right held by the LISTENER. It's your right to listen to whoever or whatever you want, and make up your own mind, and you should reject totally any infringement on that right as if some dysgenic freak is trying to physically put a collar around your neck.
Would you tolerate the YouTube trust and safety team coming into your house and tagging your ear like livestock? I hope not. I hope you would draw your sword.
Let’s set aside what YouTube has taken from Creators and focus for a minute on what they’ve taken from YOU.
YouTube used to be a treasure trove of passionate, high-quality videos from people who shared your interests.
For many people, my channel was one of them—historic homes and gardens, beautiful old NYC buildings. Especially the Dakota and Ansonia, which I wrote books about.
I had a long list of new videos planned for 2026. I was sooo excited to produce them!
Then YouTube demonetized my channel.
Those videos now won’t get made. Why not? Well, each one takes me about three days to produce. Yeah, okay, I could keep making them and rely on donations, but it wouldn’t matter—YouTube buries demonetized content.
Wait. What? Yep! A video that once reached 30,000 people now gets seen by fewer than 100. So I’d be making videos that nearly no one would see.
So, YT didn’t just hurt Creators. They robbed YOU of the content you enjoyed and would enjoy.
I’m thinking they’re losing lotsa viewers as well as Creators.
But here’s the thing: do they care? Maybe they just don’t want us anymore as they transition to being a platform with Network News and Hollywood flicks, which I think is their plan.
Whatchya think?