More censorship at YouTube

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From Sparta Report:

YouTube is constantly tweaking and changing their algorithm. Most of the time these changes are small and are barely noticed.

Lately, however, YouTubers large and small have been complaining about how little growth their channels have experienced. Apparently, YouTube’s algorithm has been changed to favor mainstream media outlets like CNN over small, independent content creators.

YouTuber Mark Dice reported on this just the other day.

The result is that YouTubers aren’t seeing their channels grow in the way that they should.

Justin Derby of Truth: The Objective Reality has noticed that YouTube’s latest round of censorship means that many YouTubers are gaining more subscribers on their BitChute channels…and he has the evidence to back it up.

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Memorial Day sign

Via social media

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Memorial Day: remembering

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We just watched the Memorial Day episode on Watter’s World, and Jesse Watters was doing one of those man-on-the-beach interviews with twenty-somethings. These beach-and-valley boys and girls could not name the country that bombed Pearl Harbor; who we fought in the Revolution; who we were fighting in World War 2; which side won the Civil War; who was US President during WW2, etc etc. Frightening.

We had dinner at our neighborhood pub the other evening, and one of our favorite waitresses asked if we had plans for Memorial Day. We said yes, we were gathering with family for a cook-out and that we would be saluting and remembering our men and women in uniform who gave their lives protecting our freedoms. We had no way of knowing her views, but she immediately responded. She always gathers with her family and she also salutes the military. But she is concerned that younger generations do not know about the sacrifices made by our military to protect America and its allies. We exchanged ideas about how we pass on the war stories to younger generations, but the heartwarming point is that she is very concerned about it and makes it a point to pass on those parts of our history to her kids.  

Happy Memorial Day from Cleveland Tea Party
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As we head into the Memorial Day weekend

Making the rounds on social media:

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“Hate speech” and Facebook

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Petr Svab at The Epoch Times:

While in the United States, most of what Facebook labels as “hate speech” would be lawful to utter publicly because of First Amendment protections, some European countries have laws against “hate speech,” forcing Facebook to take such content offline. Facebook could theoretically make such content only available to users in locales where it’s lawful, but the company has apparently subscribed to the “hate speech” doctrine, tripling its content policing force to some 30,000.

The document with [Candace] Owens’s name was posted into an internal discussion group set up by former Facebook senior engineer Brian Amerige, who left the company due to disagreements over content policing.

“I’m glad to see the group continues to be used to raise awareness inside the company about Facebook’s slippery slope of a content policy,” he said via the Facebook Messenger app. “In a very sad way, it’s comically predictable to see people listed as ‘extra credit’ to watch and investigate. Evolution into the ‘thought police’ is the inevitable result of their dangerous and ineffective approach to promoting the truth.”

The core issue Amerige hit an impasse on with Facebook executives was their insistence on suppressing “hate speech,” which Amerige deemed misguided.

“Hate speech can’t be defined consistently and it can’t be implemented reliably, so it ends up being a series of one-off ‘pragmatic’ decisions,” he previously said. “I think it’s a serious strategic misstep for a company whose product’s primary value is as a tool for free expression.”

Read the rest of this report here. As Thomas Lifson at American Thinker summarizes:

Facebook is being exposed as a naked propaganda organ that ought to be treated by law as a "publisher" legally responsible for the content it hosts, and not as a "forum" — the status it currently enjoys, exempting it from libel laws and other downsides to the content it spreads out to the world.

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If today's media covered the original Tea Party

Cartoonist Gary Varvel at TownHall

Election advice from Down Under

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Many news sites and bloggers covered this weekend's surprise upset election in Australia. Polls predicted a win for Labor but the Liberal party (their conservative party) won re-election. One reader on the thread under the Conservative Treehouse's report was on point:

Query says: 

May 18, 2019 at 7:51 pm 

And here’s a hint for the US. 

Australia does manual voting with paper ballots marked by hand, double counted by the Aust. Electoral Commission, with scrutineers from both parties observing. No hanging shards [chads], no second rate voting machines, no boxes of ballots conveniently found to sway a close election. The US merely needs to scale up the operation. That way there are multiple counting sources and no computer algorithm that someone somewhere has a key to.

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