{"id":231707,"date":"2021-04-14T07:21:29","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T07:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231707"},"modified":"2021-04-15T05:50:56","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T05:50:56","slug":"mission-accomplished-the-corbett-report-removed-from-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=231707","title":{"rendered":"Mission Accomplished: The Corbett Report Removed From YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Corbett \u2013 The Corbett Report April 11, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I posted Episode 398 of The Corbett Report podcast, \u201cScience Says<\/a>,\u201d around 10 PM Japanese Standard Time on Friday, April 9th, 2021, and then went to bed. Sometime shortly after midnight, the main Corbett Report channel was removed from YouTube.<\/p>\n

And, just like that, 14 years of work\u2014some 1700+ videos, 569,000+ subscribers and 90 million+ video views\u2014was erased from the digital ether. . . . Well, the GooTube portion of that digital ether, anyway.<\/p>\n

Given that I\u2019ve been promoting YouTube alternatives since at least 2009<\/a>, and given that I have made video<\/a> after video<\/a> after video<\/a> after video<\/a> after video<\/a> warning my audience that I would be banned from GooTube, and given that I even delivered a presentation last year noting that The Library of Alexandria is on Fire<\/a>, it\u2019s safe to say that this news did not catch me off guard. Learning about the banning after waking up on Saturday morning, my only thought was, \u201cWell, that took longer than I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Indeed, it was not surprising in any sense that this<\/em> was the report that led to GooTube purging my main channel. When you release a video on an account that already has two strikes for information that \u201ccontradicts the World Health Organization (WHO) or local health authorities\u2019 medical information about COVID-19\u201d and that video itself<\/em> contains information calling those very authorities\u2019 pronouncements into question, you better believe the thought that this might be your last YouTube upload crosses your mind when you push that publish button. Heck, the \u201coffending\u201d podcast even centers around an op-ed<\/a> comparing COVID skeptics to terrorists and calling for the UN to mount a \u201ccounteroffensive\u201d against them. Of course<\/em> this video was going to be censored.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, this had been a particularly difficult report to post in the first place. After rendering and uploading to GooTube, the GooTube copyright check flagged the 30-second clip of \u201cBill Nye Saves the World\u201d embedded in my commentary on The Weaponization of Science<\/a> and refused to post the video. So I had to cut the offending 30 seconds (specifically, the extremely scientific video for Rachel Bloom\u2019s highly educational song, \u201cMy Sex Junk<\/a>,\u201d which can still be enjoyed in the audio version of the podcast), re-render the episode and re-upload it. Then, after that video processed, I performed one quick check before hitting \u201cpublish\u201d and noted that the fancy transitions that Corbett Report video editor Broc West<\/a> had used for this episode (which had worked perfectly fine in the previous two renders) were now suddenly glitching. Banging my head on the keyboard in dismay, I went back into the project, manually changed all of the transitions and rendered and uploaded the entire episode for the third<\/em> time.<\/p>\n

And in the span of those three renders, my initial excitement at the prospect that I would actually get a podcast episode rendered, uploaded and published before 5 PM on a Friday night evaporated. Venting my spleen at Broc over my bad luck, I made the obvious \u201cjoke\u201d:<\/p>\n

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So, as you can see, this turn of events was not unexpected.<\/p>\n

In a sense, it\u2019s even more<\/em> fitting that it was specifically a video about the philosophy of science that ended the channel. Not a documentary about the central banking system. Not an expose of false flag terrorism. Not a hard-hitting report on geopolitics or hidden history. No, a podcast about science that quotes Thomas Kuhn and highlights the growing politicization of science.<\/p>\n

I say it\u2019s \u201cfitting\u201d that such a report would be the one to do in the channel not only because I have been exploring this theme over and over in different ways since the very earliest days of The Corbett Report (since at least Episode 006<\/a> of the podcast, to be precise), but because in a sense the removal of The Corbett Report\u2019s YouTube channel provides the ironically hilarious answer to a question that I had as a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed and naive undergrad over two decades ago.<\/p>\n

You see, as I explained at the beginning of The Weaponization of Science<\/a> video, I began my university career as an aspiring physics major. But after a semester spent in chemistry labs, applied mathematics courses and physics tutorials, I decided one day that I wanted to take my life in a completely different direction. So I dropped all my science courses for the upcoming semester and replaced them with English courses.<\/p>\n

As one of the very, very few scientifically inclined students in the entire English department, I found that I was particularly on guard against all the eye-rollingly ignorant ways that those in the humanities attempted to add gravitas to their arguments by shoehorning inaccurate analogies about poorly understood scientific concepts (like \u201crelativity\u201d and \u201cquantum mechanics\u201d) into their lectures and papers. And so it was that I found myself approaching one professor during his office hours after he made a remark about how science was \u201cpolitically determined.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can science be politically determined?\u201d I demanded of him indignantly. \u201cIf I drop this tape dispenser off your desk it\u2019s going to fall at 9.81 m\/s2<\/sup> regardless of who is in political office.\u201d<\/p>\n

My professor, for his part, had only to prompt me to consider the inquisition\u2019s investigation of Galileo for me to realize his point. Yes, scientists can be intimidated into proclaiming whatever the authorities\u2014political, religious or otherwise\u2014tell them to proclaim, even if it goes against their experimental results. The Galileo example may have been a particularly blunt one (and may or may not be apocryphal), but it hit the mark.<\/p>\n

I never forgot that lesson. It is part of what has informed my work on the various pseudoscience fads, trends and hoaxes that have been foisted on the masses over the preceding century, from eugenics<\/a> to Malthusian fearmongering<\/a> to the catastrophic anthropogenic climate change myth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Fast forward 20+ years and here I am daring to point out how the neo-inquisitionists are purging all criticism of their pseudoscientific pronouncements and . . . poof. Channel gone. Which kind of proves my point, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n

Now, as I do not need to tell my regular audience, none of the videos are actually<\/em> gone. Every single video has been backed up to LBRY. Years worth of videos are also backed up to BitChute, and, to a lesser extent, Minds and Archive.org. Every video since 2011 is downloadable directly from my servers. But if you don\u2019t know that by this point, perhaps you\u2019re not really ready to follow The Corbett Report into the Brave New (post-YouTube) Internet. Newsflash: this is 2021. If you\u2019re still using YouTube to get your news, history and political information then you\u2019ve got bigger problems than just the loss of The Corbett Report.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve said it before and I\u2019ll say it again: the \u201cinfowar\u201d is not an analogy but a stone cold sober reality, and the fact that The Corbett Report was able to use a major enemy information platform to propagate the truth to the slumbering masses for 14 years is a major victory in and of itself.<\/p>\n

So long, GooTube. Thanks for helping me to unlock so many minds. You will not be missed.<\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was not a documentary about the central banking system that got James Corbett removed. Nor was it an expose of false flag terrorism or a report on geopolitics or hidden history. It was a podcast that highlights the growing politicization of science that was the final straw for YouTube<\/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-231707","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\/231707","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=231707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231710,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231707\/revisions\/231710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}