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YouTube has demonetized prominent conservatives and other dissenters in an apparent campaign to squelch criticism of the transgender agenda.
Sara Gonzales, the host of BlazeTV's "The News & Why It Matters," podcaster Tim Pool, and Matt Walsh, the recently hacked conservative commentator behind the film "What Is a Woman?", have each reportedly seen their revenue streams dammed in part or in full on the platform in recent days.
Gonzales noted on Thursday, "My YouTube channel had 3 videos removed today and received a strike for telling the truth about transgenderism. @Timcast just had 2 videos removed on his channel. They demonetized @MattWalshBlog's entire channel."
\u201cMy YouTube channel had 3 videos removed today and received a strike for telling the truth about transgenderism. \n\n@Timcast just had 2 videos removed on his channel.\n\nThey demonetized @MattWalshBlog\u2019s entire channel. \n\nThey want to censor us out of existence.\u201d— Sara Gonzales (@Sara Gonzales) 1682036292
"They want to censor us out of existence," said Gonzales, adding in a subsequent tweet, "We will never surrender."
The BlazeTV host indicated that the demonetization has prompted her to explore "the avenue of Rumble."
Matt Walsh spoke Wednesday at a Young America's Foundation event at the University of Iowa, revealing that his entire YouTube channel had been demonetized due to his discussions of Bud Light's transvestite spokesman Dylan Mulvaney.
"We received word from YouTube that I had committed a series of alleged violations of their terms of service and also of their ad partnership guidelines, which will now lead to my demonetization and potentially being banished forever from the platform," said Walsh.
A spokesman for YouTube confirmed the action in a statement to Media Matters, writing, "We suspended monetization on Matt Walsh’s channel due to repeated violations of our YouTube Partner Program policies, which include our Advertiser-Friendly Guidelines. These policies apply equally to all creators, regardless of political viewpoint, and channels that repeatedly violate these policies are demonetized."
Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing suggested in a Twitter post that Walsh had violated "some opaque, arbitrarily applied standard or another related to speaking the biological truth about Dylan Mulvaney."
YouTube's hate speech policy prohibits content promoting "hatred" against anyone on the basis of various attributes, including sex or gender. It is not clear from the policy what precisely constitutes hate.
The policy further indicates that content can be removed and/or accounts penalized when a creator "repeatedly encourages abusive audience behavior"; "repeatedly targets, insults and abuses a group based on the attributes noted above across multiple uploads"; or "creates content that harms the YouTube ecosystem by persistently inciting hostility against a group with attributes noted above for personal financial gain."
Walsh indicated that YouTube had been intentionally vague about its guidelines and even vaguer about how offenders ran afoul of them "because they want to afford themselves the latitude to demonetize and deplatform you whenever they feel like it."
While keen to shut down undesirable speech, the speech police at YouTube could allegedly be appeased with various concessions.
"If I simply respect the preferred pronouns and stop accurately gendering people, then I can likely continue to do my show on the platform, get it remonetized after a short probationary period, and continue making over $100,000 a month on YouTube ads, which is a huge part of how we produce and pay for the show," explained Walsh.
Walsh indicated that this boiled down to YouTube asking him to "just give up your integrity and your soul."
"And to that I say: hell no. Hell no. No way," said Walsh. "There is nothing to even think about. I would rather be demonetized than use someone's preferred pronouns one time. I would rather you kick me off every platform and banish me to Mars than used someone's preferred pronouns."
\u201cSpeaking at University of Iowa, Matt Walsh confirms that his YouTube channel was demonetized for repeatedly attacking Dylan Mulvaney, says that he was making over $100,000 a month \u2014 and that he can get it back if he stops misgendering Mulvaney.\u201d— Ari Drennen (@Ari Drennen) 1681949962
Later on Twitter, Walsh announced he would no longer be uploading his show to YouTube, but instead posting videos elsewhere, including on Rumble and Twitter.
Oli London, the ambassador of Gays Against Groomers, reiterated Gonzales' report that Tim Pool had also seen his videos demonetized on YouTube.
While a number of her videos have been demonetized, Sara Gonzales' "The News & Why It Matters" is still on YouTube. You can watch it here:
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FBI suggests that slang words 'red-pilled' and 'based' are linked to violent extremism
A newly exposed section of the FBI domestic terrorism reference guide suggests that the use of the internet slang words "red-pilled" and "based," among others, might be suggestive of a user's proclivity for or involvement in racist, involuntary-celibate, and/or fascistic extremism.
The Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project recently obtained an excerpt from the FBI's guide on domestic terrorism that deals with both "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists" and "Involuntary Celibate Violent Extremists."
Inside this section are glossaries of terms allegedly used by criminal elements in these supposed groups.
The following are some of the "key terms" incels are wont to use, according to the FBI:
- Chad — "Race-specific term used to describe idealized version of a male, who is very successful at gaining sexual and romantic attention from women. Incels unsuccessfully compete against Chads for attention";
- Looksmaxxing — "The process of self-improvement with the intent to become more attractive";
- Normie; Blue Pill — "Derisive terms used to describe 'normal people'"; and
- Stacy — "Idealized version of a female, who is very successful at gaining sexual and romantic attention from men."
The following are some of the "key terms" RMVEs are wont to use, according to the FBI:
- Based — "RMVEs use the term to refer to someone who has been converted to racist ideology, or as a way of indicating ideological agreement";
- Great Replacement — "First popularized among European nationalists based on a 2005 book of the same title, the term refers to the belief in a conspiracy to replace the white race and Western culture through high non-white birth rates, mass immigration, and other measures";
- Red Pill — "In the context of RMVE ideology, taking the red pill or becoming 'redpilled' indicates the adoption of racist, anti-Semitic, or fascist beliefs"; and
- LARPing — "A term which stands for 'Live Action Role-Playing' originally meant to describe a role-playing game in which participants act out their roles as fictional characters. RMVEs and their associates use the term online to deride individuals accused of not being as extreme, or in possession of skills or other valued characteristics, they claim to have."
\u201cNEW: Docs we obtained show how @FBI equates protected online speech to violence. \n\nAccording to @FBI using the terms \u201cbased\u201d or \u201cred pilled\u201d are signs of "Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremism"\u201d— Oversight Project (@Oversight Project) 1680552803
Whereas some terms and phrases in the FBI's glossaries, such as "Blood and Soil," have an undeniable historical link to identitarian and nationalist socialist movements, the terms "red pill," "Chad," "LARPing," and "based" are used widely and innocuously online.
According to Know Your Meme, "Chad" is a "universally understood term online," optimally employed when referring to a person with a carefree attitude, "particularly if they're doing something particularly badass."
USA Today noted that "these days, a Chad would be a hyper-masculine and overtly sexual young man."
Caleb Madison indicated in the Atlantic that "Red Pill" is a cultural artifact from "The Matrix," wherein the character Morpheus offers the protagonist, Neo, a choice: "You take the blue pill ... the story ends — you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes."
Employed in everyday speech, to take the red pill or to be passively "red-pilled" is to ultimately realize that one was previously wrong or in the dark about about some consequential fact/reality.
How-To Geek indicated that "based" is similarly far from being a word singularly used by rabid identitarians and closeted fascists: "In Internet slang, a 'based' person or opinion is one that is confident, free-thinking, and not influenced by the opinion of others."
"Based, as a general slang word, originated from the 1980s recreational drug culture. It was used to describe someone who used crack cocaine and is derived from freebasing, a specific method of taking the drug. Someone who was 'Based' or a 'Basehead' was a person addicted to crack," continued the definition.
In addition to associating common internet slang with extremists, the FBI has also raised the alarm about Roman Catholic orthodoxy.
TheBlaze previously reported that in January, the FBI's Richmond field office published a document titled, "Interest of Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists in Radical Traditionalist Catholic Ideology Almost Certainly Presents New Mitigation Opportunities."
Despite the Catholic Church spanning the globe, condemning slavery nearly a century before Columbus' discovery of America, and emphatically denouncing racism, the FBI reportedly claimed that it had "increasingly observed interest of racially or ethnically motivated violent extremists in radical traditionalist Catholic ideology."
If it exists, then the FBI's glossary of supposedly extremist Catholic terms and phrases has yet to be publicized.
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Republicans need to draw their lines now and refuse to provide votes for any funding legislation that includes these dystopian provisions.'Inclusive language guide' at college warns of un-woke, 'problematic' words and phrases. So steer clear of 'brown bags,' 'lower the bar,' and 'cakewalk.'
TheBlaze has reported extensively on woke culture's attempts to squash and sideline words and phrases it views as unacceptable — particularly on college campuses — and the speech police haven't quit yet.
What now?
The University of Washington's Information Technology Department has released its very own list of "problematic" words and phrases as part of an “inclusive language guide.”
"Words matter. Words that reflect racial or other discriminatory bias are contrary to the values of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in UW Information Technology (UW-IT) and at the University of Washington (UW)," the introduction reads. "They undermine the inclusive environment we aim to create in UW-IT and in serving a diverse University community."
With that, the department put together a guide to identify "racist, sexist, ageist, ableist, homophobic or otherwise non-inclusive language scattered throughout materials and resources in the software and information technology fields" and replace them with more acceptable words and phrases.
What are some examples?
A number of words and phrases that made the list we've seen before, but others have a ring of novelty to them, so we thought we'd identify and break down the ones that my be new to "problematic" lists.
- First up is "brown bags." The guide says the term comes from the “brown paper bag test,” which was "traditionally used to judge skin color by certain African-American sororities and fraternities." Even though the term is identified today as a kind of lunch get-together, its roots are about "an ugly period of American history that can alienate and offend people." Instead the guide says we should use "lunch and learn" or "tech talks" as alternatives.
- Second is "cakewalk," which we know as a way of saying something is easy to do. But according to the guide, "cakewalk" was a "pre-Civil War dance performed by enslaved people, and the winner ... would be given a cake ... [and] ... should be avoided." Instead, just say "easy," the guide instructs.
- And don't say "lower the bar," as the phrase that many of us equate with reducing the level of difficulty actually "is based on the erroneous idea that a company has to relax hiring standards in order to add people from different racial, ethnic, gender backgrounds." Instead the guide says we should say "simplify" or "make more accessible."
- This is an interesting no-no word: "Minority." While it's frequently used to describe numerically non-dominant racial or ethnic groups, the guide says "minority" actually can be "a generalized term for 'the other' and implies a 'less than' attitude toward the community or communities being discussed." Instead, when referring to racial or ethnic groups, the guide says to call these groups by their accepted names (e.g., "Native American" and "African American").
- How about "peanut gallery"? It's commonly used these days to refer to the upper balcony of a theater. But the guide says it has its roots in the days of "segregated theaters, where African Americans had to sit. Peanuts were introduced to America during the slave trade, and thus became associated with black people." Instead, the guide says we should just say "upper balcony" or "cheap seats." (But wouldn't the latter alternative possibly offend those less financially well off?)
- Then there's "housekeeping," which in an IT context means system maintenance, but the guide says the term "can feel gendered. It carries a fraught history and connotation of women’s traditional domestic role as housekeepers." So the guide says to just stick to "maintenance."
- Perhaps the most eye-opening is the entry for "male or female connectors and fasteners." Yep, you read that right. Turns out those terms are "inherently problematic" because the "use of male or female anatomy to describe electrical and IT connectors and fasteners" unfortunately "sexualize[s] how they fit together." So, the guide says to just say "connector and receptacle" or "plug and socket."
There. Feel more woke, now?
(H/T: Big Country News)
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