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Youtube instantly demonetized, put behind triple community warnings, and removed from search the video "The CIA is a Terrorist Organization" ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI ) which was sourced only from things the CIA / US Government have formally admitted on the record as having done in the past.

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Videos like this are only accessible in some countries if you provide YouTube with a government ID. In my country YouTube blocks a number of videos from public broadcasters this way.

Let me introduce a temporary workaround to you https://www.youtubeNSFW.com/watch?v=_2khAmMTAjI

Those kinds of sites don't work. There are no operative workarounds as far as I know.

It used to be that youtube-dl worked, but on that CIA video I now get:

  [youtube] _2khAmMTAjI: Downloading webpage
  [youtube] _2khAmMTAjI: Refetching age-gated info webpage
  WARNING: unable to download video info webpage: HTTP Error 410: Gone
  ERROR: Sign in to confirm your age
  This video may be inappropriate for some users.

Meh.

The following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.

Was it really "the community" though?

Anyway, that video doesn't seem very out there at all to me. That the CIA has committed various things most reasonable people would classify as "crimes" and "terrorism" seems like common knowledge to me.

Have you tried the YTBypass, 'youtubensfw' redirect? At first, the video won't load, but there is a notice to 'click this if the site won't load.' which brings up the video. It becomes possible to download the video then, although it is very slow.

There’s no major conspiracy here other than YouTube becoming increasingly hostile to the open web.

I would put money on Rumble becoming a major force in social media over the next ten years. It feels more like early YouTube than YouTube itself has felt for a long time.

Why not PeerTube? It is gaining a lot more of momentum by interoperating with the rest of the fediverse.

Yt-dlp implemented a work-around that seems to work for now.

Even Wikipedia engages in strategic censorship on behalf of the three letter agencies.

Case in point: this article[0] was removed from Wikipedia without good reasoning. It would seem that the name of the article itself was inflammatory enough to the powers that be.

[0] https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/List_of_authoritarian_re...

> the name of the article itself was inflammatory enough to the powers that be

There's a discussion of why it was deleted here - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletio...

Primarily because 'this "list" is inherently subjective and constitutes [synthesised conclusions]'; you'll also note on that page that "List of authoritarian regimes supported by the Soviet Union or Russia" was deleted at the same time - was that also at the behest of the US "powers that be"?

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