Youtube suspends Russia Today channel.
70 2012-03-18 by [deleted]
http://www.youtube.com/russiatoday
Just like that, a major alternative news source has been removed from YouTube. Does anyone know what the "last straw" was? Perhaps something about Iran or the Afghanistan debacle?
19 comments
16 the_throwa_way 2012-03-18
Edit: this is what it looked like. It's back up now.
9 Dwarf_Vader 2012-03-18
Don't get your "hopes" up - this happens occasionally. For example, RWJ's channel went through the same thing, relatively recently. Luckily, both are still up, now.
And by the way, since we're talking RT - why do you even consider it as a credible source? It's the same shit as BBC, only biased from Russia's POV.
12 andsee 2012-03-18
You don't have to trust anything. You just have to know which bias is being applied.
If you know that one bias is opposite to another (e.g RT and Fox), and you read the same story from those two sources - then the truth is somewhere in the middle. If they're both saying the same thing then either the story is true or it's totally stage managed.
It's the same with all submissions in this subreddit. You read the lunatic side (I say that tongue in cheek), you read the mainstream side, then you read the skeptics side - and again you come away with something closer to the truth than if you'd taken just one source.
That's why I like reading this subreddit, it's another arrow in the proverbial quiver.
5 dogsquaredoc 2012-03-18
Absolutely correct. It's called critical thinking - something that it not practiced in the US much these days. Most people have become lemmings, content with being spoon-fed and believing anything presented to them.
9 preventDefault 2012-03-18
I like at least having the option of seeing things from another perspective. Even though I don't spend much time on their YouTube channel I wouldn't want to see YouTube shut it down.
1 ordinary-people 2012-03-18
well... all sources are biased to some extent, doesnt mean that they lie about everything. thats the cool thing of our time, facts can be checked.
8 dubdubdubdot 2012-03-18
In Corporatist America youtube censors you.
7 [deleted] 2012-03-18
Still works
3 the_throwa_way 2012-03-18
It was down for a bit. Unfortunately I didn't get a screenshot. It said something like "banned for spamming, scamming" or something.
Edit: someone already "screenshotted" it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgtZbGR3oy0
2 [deleted] 2012-03-18
I had tried going to /russiatoday a few weeks ago and there was something similar to this effect. idk
3 jablome 2012-03-18
looks like it's still up
2 milezteg 2012-03-18
Wow! After Al Jazeera the best alternative news source. We won't accept this YouTube (Google)!
2 milezteg 2012-03-18
PHEW! It's ALIVE!
I'd love to see what content caused the (temporary?) violation.
2 souperduper 2012-03-18
Lol al Jazeera is a good news source? Please be kidding
1 [deleted] 2012-03-18
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5 praxeologue 2012-03-18
Explain?
0 preventDefault 2012-03-18
Musta been the jews or something.
0 s70n3834r 2012-03-18
Wonder who told them to do it.
-1 lagnaippe 2012-03-18
Probably they are giving air time for Assange.
-7 [deleted] 2012-03-18
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13 cosmaximus 2012-03-18
All news is propaganda. It's your job to read all the propaganda and both sides so you can hope to understand some truth.