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Coverage of the Tienanmen Square Massacre is on YouTube and includes exactly this.

Hell, it's practically a meme to shout "Nobody in China knows about Tienanmen Square!" at the villainous Lemmy Tankies, precisely because the Chinese government has a policy of taking down media coverage while the US media proudly reproduces it at every opportunity.

Why would YouTube, a company that has repeatedly expressed its commitment to breaking down the barriers of government censorship and oppression, suddenly decide it needs to censor a state-sanctioned massacre of civilians? What would lead us to conclude that the genocide in Gaza should be treated differently than the Tienanmen Square massacre?

the post says coverage of. was actual video of the acts shown?

YouTube has no problem with multiple different ai generated gory videos of Rebecca Madeupname being mauled alive by an orca. Every time I opened a private window, one of these was recommended. No age restriction, nothing.

They have no problem with porn bots spamming family friendly channels with pro-paedo comments, even though they use the same avatars and messages so should be easy to filter out. Videos promoting dangerous hacks stay up even after multiple reports. They're fine monetising reaction channels that are nothing more than freebooting other people's work.

So YouTube's tos really comes down to: it's fine if it makes money.

I wish there was proper competition, even if it was run by another awful company like Microsoft or amazon. AFAIK no other platform offers monetisation like yt does, so people stay and put up with their crap.

(Personally I'm hoping to reupload mf stuff to peertube if I ever come out this slump.)

Content like that should definitely go on multiple platforms. Ironically the right is much better at this, cause they are used to getting deplatformed.

they could even host it themselves on their own hardware ensuring it stays up

I’ve noticed this

It's not bigger news. But it's important supplemental news to know that large corporations are complicit in the war crimes.

It's difficult to describe the world in the pre-social media age. There was a time when Google was just a cool software company building cool things, and the don't be evil motto was probably genuine.

Software used to be an thing that you would buy and use if you needed it. It came on a disk. It wasn't this ever pervasive network of always on tools living in our homes and devices working to cultivate the ultimate consumer unit

did they seriously mean it when they made “don’t be evil” their company motto way back in the day?

When they weren't raking in tens of billions of dollars in government surveillance contracts and state-sponsored media ad buys? Probably.

But Google is under completely different management in 2025 relative to what it had at the outset in 1998. Perhaps the company's commitment to "Don't Be Evil" was violated the day they IPO'd. But Larry Page and Sergey Brin aren't in the driver's seats anymore. They sold their souls to join the oligarchy. Perhaps they assumed they could do more with an infinite line of credit than a rising star social media company. Or perhaps Google simply wouldn't be allowed as the global leader in search without spreading its cheeks and admitting corrupt bureaucracies to puppet it from below.

There was a time in the early 2000’s when tech companies got their customers by being better than the alternatives instead of just being obscenely wealthy and buying out all competition.

They removed the old motto from everywhere official many years ago. Don't be evil... Until you get enough market share that you don't have to care anymore.

Today Palestine. Tomorrow us.

I never had "wished we had a warcrimestube.com" on my 2025 disaster bingo, but here we are.

money, MOSSAD/IDF paid google millions to spread propaganda ads, and recently israeli signed a deal with google for its AI services(1.2bn), and also prevent other nations that requests data from said ai services when accusing IDF soldiers. googles video AI is very useful making alot of propaganda, the ones that been showing up on shorts alot.