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TexasTowelie

(117,468 posts)
Sat Dec 16, 2023, 10:15 PM Dec 2023

S.O.S.: Warthog Defense Removed by YouTube (here is what happened) - Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦



HELP NEEDED. S.O.S.: Warthog Defense Removed by YouTube (HERE IS WHAT HAPPENED). I communicated with Warthog so you can have the story.
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S.O.S.: Warthog Defense Removed by YouTube (here is what happened) - Professor Gerdes Explains 🇺🇦 (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2023 OP
Best guess: You Tube wants to keep its Russian access. Warpy Dec 2023 #1
They've been leaning on other utoobers... 2naSalit Dec 2023 #2
I don't care for "the ruzzian dude". I get the impression he is an opportunist just rehashing know info.. mitch96 Dec 2023 #4
Regardless... 2naSalit Dec 2023 #5
Agree. I watch "Reporting from Ukraine" Good content. Also Perun, but he can get a little long winded mitch96 Dec 2023 #6
Given the toxic hostility... GiqueCee Dec 2023 #3

Warpy

(113,131 posts)
1. Best guess: You Tube wants to keep its Russian access.
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 12:07 AM
Dec 2023

They don't have much to fear, the Russian alternative is so clunky as to be unusable.

However, they seem to have caved to threats.

2naSalit

(93,331 posts)
2. They've been leaning on other utoobers...
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 12:25 AM
Dec 2023

Like the Russian Dude and Artur Rehi. Both have mentioned trolling and problems with the platform censoring them.

mitch96

(14,758 posts)
4. I don't care for "the ruzzian dude". I get the impression he is an opportunist just rehashing know info..
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 11:11 AM
Dec 2023

The capper was when he mentioned last year on a QnA that part of his "Ukraine Donations" go to his relatives.
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2naSalit

(93,331 posts)
5. Regardless...
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 11:58 AM
Dec 2023

Utoob is censoring content and removing content providers thus depriving us from news. Kind of following the xitter model only more slowly.

mitch96

(14,758 posts)
6. Agree. I watch "Reporting from Ukraine" Good content. Also Perun, but he can get a little long winded
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 12:39 PM
Dec 2023

Perun is a military economist and has a different take on the war. He comes at it from a economic view. There are a bunch of others I look at sometimes but as usual you have to separate the grain from the chaff. Being pro Ukraine tends to be biased and that is understandable.
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GiqueCee

(1,490 posts)
3. Given the toxic hostility...
Sun Dec 17, 2023, 09:23 AM
Dec 2023

... toward Ukraine by the Rabid Right within the House of Representatives, it would not be much of a stretch to suspect behind-the-scenes threats and machinations from the likes of Empty Greene as factor in this unwarranted attack. The blatant mendacity and simplistic rationale for this action reeks of the low-wattage intellect that defines that group. There is no bottom to the cesspool of malice and depravity in which Greene and her crew delight in wallowing.

YouTube has shot themselves in the foot, so to speak, with this demonstrably false accusation against a well-established and responsible channel, and their judgement and impartiality is forever suspect as a result.

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