Digital political commissariats declare themselves arbiters of universal truth
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
As part of its accelerating purge of all Alex Jones material, You Tube thought police have begun to slap “invalid argument” tags on any video that attempts to defend Alex Jones in light of You Tube banning all user accounts linked with the Texan radio talk show host.
In a shocking indictment of how You Tube has set itself up as some kind of digital political commissariat, the move resembles a kind of cyber book burning, with You Tube positioning itself as an overlord and arbiter of universal truth, telling its users what reality is instead of letting them make their own minds up.
As we reported earlier, after initially manufacturing a hoax copyright claim in order to suspend the main Alex Jones Channel, You Tube has now begun deleting any Alex Jones related channel carte-blanche, simply because You Tube users challenged the companies’ aggressive censorship policy as it prepares to devote the majority of its featured content to giant broadcasting studios and other huge corporations.
Click here for an example of the You Tube thought police in action. A video about You Tube’s censorship of Alex Jones is preceded by a pink strip that stretches across the whole width of the screen which contains the words, “Invalid arguments.”
See a screenshot below (click for enlargement).
Apparently, You Tube thinks that any of its users, who have devoted hours upon hours of their time to build up You Tube to where it is today, who dare question the censorship policies enforced by the website, are automatically incorrect and are expressing an “invalid argument”. You Tube offers no proof whatsoever that the argument is “invalid,” it just claims it by proxy.
There can no longer be any doubt that You Tube has taken the “You” out of its guiding principles and replaced it with the word “Corporate,” banning user accounts arbitrarily if they carry any Alex Jones material whatsoever.
As we warned would happen years ago, the growth of giant social networking websites has centralized Internet power and people have flocked to websites like You Tube, Facebook and MySpace like a moth to a flame.
Now that these corporate giants have swallowed up the majority of Internet traffic, they are moving ahead at full speed to crush freedom of speech on the Internet and lay the groundwork for Internet 2, a corporate controlled, government regulated digital prison where the first amendment won’t exist and only opinions approved by self-installed thought police like You Tube will be allowed to exist.
If you think that sounds like a bad idea, we urge you to contact You Tube and politely let them know of your outrage at the egregious censorship of Alex Jones material on You Tube.
YouTube, LLC
901 Cherry Ave.
San Bruno, CA 94066
USA
Phone: +1 650-253-0000
Fax: +1 650-253-0001
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June 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 am
If you will search the term invalid arguments, either on the web or on YouTube Help, you will see that it is a programming command line error, not a personal insult to users.