YouTube Censors ‘Restrict’ IHR Videos

Institute for Historical Review
June 2018

In line with a recent crackdown policy, YouTube has “restricted” a number of independently produced videos of IHR talks and presentations. (Some of these videos can be found on our video web page. )

To watch a “restricted” video, the viewer must first click through a warning screen that announces: “The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.” Also, comments on the video are not allowed, and the number of views is not given. Even worse, YouTube will never “suggest” a “restricted” video to viewers, which is how many people find our videos. (“Restriction” is not outright deletion. YouTube bans outright videos it claims contain “hate speech or content that promotes or incites violence.”)

While YouTube claims that its “restriction” policy is aimed at videos with “inflammatory religious or supremacist content,” applying it to IHR videos is absurd. Any open-minded person can easily determine for himself that our videos contain no such content.

The YouTube policy is clearly biased. For example, it doesn’t “restrict” videos that defend Israel and its routinely discriminatory and oppressive policies, which are certainly “offensive” to millions of people. YouTube restricts our voice not because we have violated any objective standards, or because we have done anything wrong or illegal — but because it doesn’t like what we say.

The new YouTube policy is not surprising. It’s one more expression of the “politically correct” and Judeo-centric bias that pervades the American mainstream media.

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