Youtube censorship gone wild removing Michael Moore’s documentary

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Michael Moore’s Planet of the Humans racked up 8 million views in a month, then when they extended the free views for another month, YouTube finally found a reason to shut it down. Apparently 4 seconds of video isn’t “fair use” in a documentary any more, and thus for copyright reasons, the video got pulled. If Youtube took down every 4 second violation of copyright there’d be no Youtube. Which may be about to happen anyway, when the young hip revolutionary teens realize the conglomate power is heavily censoring their access to “news” in order to fool them into obedience for corporate profit.

It’s so predictable. A month ago, Myron Ebell, CEI, said “Quick. Watch it before it’s banned”.



Everytime Youtube does this it makes it easier for a competitor to take their top spot. Bring it on.

Moore put it on Vimeo, but searching there finds nothing too. Has Vimeo been “got to”?

Doesn’t matter, because Moore’s now moved to Bitchute. https://www.bitchute.com/video/KQnVEMOOYuJd/

Long live Bitchute.

The documentary was banned by the film distributors right from the start, but when people started tweeting “now that it’s banned, I want to see it” they reversed their decision. But there are many ways to ignore something without actually banning it. So a big Thank You to Youtube for being so cack-handed. This will make both the documentary and Bitchute more popular.

For Michael Moore, this must be an eye opening transition as he falls from Green-Left Grace to become just another of the unspoken untermensch. For him, it might be the first time he really wakes up to the weapons grade corporate power that may have thought he was fighting previously. A Red Pill day. At this point he either does something grovelling to claw back to his former position (but they won’t trust him), or this move pushes him far into skeptic-land. Many a great skeptic is borne from the claws of Censorship.

It may also open some eyes among other namecalling lefty editors, like those on Deadline who still use the petty “deniers” label.

 ‘Planet Of The Humans’ EP Michael Moore & Director Jeff Gibbs Blast “Blatant Censorship”

The documentary, especially coming from the unassailably left-wing Moore and Gibbs and not right-wing climate-change deniers, was bound to provoke a strong reaction. Among the environmental champions leading the charge against Planet of the Humans has been Josh Fox, the Oscar-nominated director of Gasland. Fox led an earlier campaign on Twitter to get the docu “retracted by its creators and distributors,” calling the film “shockingly misleading and absurd.”

The effort by Fox triggered its own backlash, with the writers organization PEN America labeling it attempted censorship. In his statement to Deadline, Gibbs once against decried any attempt to keep the film from reaching the public.

Here is Gibbs’ full statement to Deadline:

This attempt to take down our film and prevent the public from seeing it is a blatant act of censorship by political critics of Planet of the Humans. It is a misuse of copyright law to shutdown a film that has opened a serious conversation about how parts of the environmental movement have gotten into bed with Wall Street and so-called “green capitalists.” There is absolutely no copyright violation in my film. This is just another attempt by the film’s opponents to subvert the right to free speech.

Opponents of Planet of the Humans, who do not like its critique of the failures of the environmental movement, have worked for weeks to have the film taken down and to block us from appearing on TV and on livestream. Their efforts to subvert free speech have failed, with nearly eight and a half million people already viewing the film on YouTube. These Trumpian tactics are shameful, and their aim to stifle free speech and prevent people from grappling with the uncomfortable truths exposed in this film is deeply disturbing.

PEN America, which was founded in 1922 and fights for the free speech of artists in the U.S. and around the world, came out strongly and denounced the initial attempt to censor this film, and we hope all champions of free expression condemn this act of censorship. We are working with YouTube to resolve this issue and have the film back up as soon as possible.”

My thought on Planet of the Humans: It’s like someone read all the major skeptic blogs in the world on renewables and turned them into a documentary. Shame though he still sees humans and fossil fuels as a plague on the planet. One step at a time.

Welcome to the Deplorables club Michael Moore.

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Just like all Soclailists/Nazis they only allow stuff Big Brother Approves of

I find it difficult to feel sorry for a Hutt.

The Left eats its own…… at least there’s a lot to go around. 🙂

Trump’s morning Twitter tantrum:

Donald J. Trump@realDonaldTrump

Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen. We saw what they attempted to do, and failed, in 2016. We can’t let a more sophisticated version of that….

6:11 AM · May 27, 2020

….happen again. Just like we can’t let large scale Mail-In Ballots take root in our Country. It would be a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of Ballots. Whoever cheated the most would win. Likewise, Social Media. Clean up your act, NOW!!!!

News flash for the current occupant of the Oval Office: You do not have constitutional power to suspend free speech and shut down a private social media company, just because they finally flagged two of the countless lies you’ve posted there to alert readers that they should be fact checked.

You’re not quite there yet, and you’re not going to get there.

@Greg: *slaps greg’s dumbass face…”

Focus, focus!

Youtube censorship gone wild removing Michael Moore’s documentary

The President does the absolute Constitutional power, and responsibility, in stopping social media platforms from violating the absolute right Americans have to free speech.

Google was shown, by a registered Democrat researcher, to have gained millions of votes for Hillary by way of disinformation and search manipulation.

It stops now. Good for Trump. This is why I voted for him, and will again.

My government will not be usurped by a rogue non-constitutional faction manipulating and threatening the populace 1984-style.

The President does the absolute Constitutional power, and responsibility, in stopping social media platforms from violating the absolute right Americans have to free speech.

You, sir, appear to be as abysmally clueless about the constitutional powers of a president as Donald Trump is himself.

Twitter sets the rules for Twitter—not Michael Moore or Donald Trump.

Will they revoke his Oscar he should never had bee nominated for?

@Greg:

Twitter sets the rules for Twitter

Except when twitter infringes on the absolute rights granted to American citizens by the Constitution…then the WH reminds Twitter of what country it’s in.

Then it goes from private company to corrupt political enterprise that gets shut down.

Go learn about anti-trust laws, while you’re at it.

Except when twitter infringes on the absolute rights granted to American citizens by the Constitution

Twitter is not legally required to provide services to anyone. No one has a guaranteed right to use their social media platform.

Trump cannot legally shut them down, nor could he get away with the attempt. If he wants to give it a try to see what happens, I suppose he can do that. It would be the end of his administration, come November.

So, it censorship due to ideology good or bad now, liberals? Perhaps Gibbs and Michael (a whole lot) Moore should have checked with the Ministry of Propaganda to get their little flicker show approved before they made it.