{"id":202923,"date":"2020-02-24T07:27:14","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T07:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202923"},"modified":"2020-02-26T05:38:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T05:38:01","slug":"youtube-bans-christian-broadcaster-trunews-for-hate-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=202923","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Bans Christian Broadcaster TruNews For \u2018Hate Speech&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Blacklisted News.com \u2013 Feb 22, 2020<\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Christian pastor Rick Wiles&#8217; channel TruNews was permanently banned from Google-owned YouTube on Thursday for &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">TruNews has been banned permanently from Youtube.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TruNews\u2122 (@TruNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TruNews\/status\/1230581586061668352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;It was only a matter of time, YouTube finally canceled our channel,&#8221; Wiles <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trunews.com\/stream\/trump-pardon-nypd-top-cop-kerik-received-loan-from-rich-israeli\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>said on his show Thursday<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. &#8220;What was our crime? They accused us of hate speech.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Of course, there is no such thing as hate speech &#8212; it&#8217;s a crime that was invented by the political left several decades ago,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What it really means is free speech that somebody doesn&#8217;t like.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wiles said the &#8220;final nail in the coffin&#8221; according to YouTube was their February 12 interview with Israeli News Live&#8217;s Steve and Jana Ben-Nun titled, <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.trunews.com\/stream\/christianity-vs-evangelical-zionism-steve-and-jana-ben-nun\">&#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Christianity Vs. Evangelical Zionism<\/strong><\/span>.&#8221;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Wiles said he got hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of free bandwidth off YouTube and plans to conduct &#8220;business as usual&#8221; on their own website.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;Nothing they do to stop us will succeed, in fact, the more they try to destroy us the more God will bless us, the gates of hell will not prevail against his Church,&#8221; Wiles said.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YouTube may have permanently banned TruNews, but all of our content is ALWAYS available at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BfhXUKxqnr\">https:\/\/t.co\/BfhXUKxqnr<\/a> Keep watching!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TruNews\u2122 (@TruNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TruNews\/status\/1230675087860342785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;YouTube has finally banned #antiSemitic outlet TruNews, and we hope other social media platforms will follow suit,&#8221; Anti-Defamation League head Jonathan Greenblatt said Thursday on Twitter.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a> has finally banned <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/antiSemitic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#antiSemitic<\/a> outlet TruNews, and we hope other social media platforms will follow suit. More on TruNews and its long history of perpetuating vile <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/hate?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#hate<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/koamDsGP41\">https:\/\/t.co\/koamDsGP41<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jikmunnSy0\">pic.twitter.com\/jikmunnSy0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JGreenblattADL\/status\/1230622353975107584?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 20, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Anti-Defamation League last year put TruNews on what many have called <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.fo\/lNOgO\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>a &#8220;hit list&#8221; of 30 Christian and right-wing channels<\/strong><\/span><\/a> they demanded YouTube ban for &#8220;anti-Semitism.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Greenblatt said in the past that the ADL works with Google and Facebook to &#8220;tweak their algorithms&#8221; and &#8220;redirect&#8221; searches through AI to protect people&#8217;s right to &#8220;not be harassed or hated.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbE3bbbAHgw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Sacha Baron Cohen said during a viral speech to the ADL a few months ago that <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=60958\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>nothing should be allowed to be posted on social media which hasn&#8217;t gone through their &#8220;monitors&#8221; first for manual approval<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">YouTube&#8217;s decision was met with outrage on <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/trunews\/posts\/3178747378826015?__tn__=-R\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>TruNews&#8217; Facebook page<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">YouTube&#8217;s decision to ban TruNews came one week after <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=61200\">they decided to permanently ban Christian conservative commentator Nick Fuentes for &#8220;hate speech.&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">YouTube appears to be following a policy paper I covered from &#8220;researchers&#8221; led by professor Neil Johnson of George Washington University released in August <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=60674\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>which called for a slow but steady stream of mass bannings of right-wing dissidents on social media to avoid &#8220;inflaming the entire hive&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/a> by generating too much pushback.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reminder: Leftist &quot;researchers&quot; released a paper in August which called for a slow but steady stream of mass bannings of right-wing thought criminals to avoid &quot;inflaming the entire hive&quot; by generating too much pushback. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IxGvPLV6m4\">https:\/\/t.co\/IxGvPLV6m4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chris Menahan ?? (@infolibnews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/infolibnews\/status\/1184903214556160000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The paper recommended tech giants ban &#8220;small clusters&#8221; of dissidents &#8220;at random&#8221; to &#8220;weaken the cluster over time without inflaming the entire hive.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blacklistednews.com\/article\/76329\/youtube-bans-christian-broadcaster-trunews-for-hate.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The clampdown on dissidents continues on the pretext that they are engaged in \u201chate speech\u201d i.e. spreading ideas and information that the controllers don\u2019t like <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-controlling-the-news-andor-the-free-exchange-of-ideas-and-information"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=202923"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":202926,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202923\/revisions\/202926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=202923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=202923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=202923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}