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YouTube has not responded to a request for comment about why Fischer remains removed. Times, “but it’s important to us that YouTube is a safe place for all.” “We know that this might be disappointing,” it told the L.A. YouTube in his case seemed to acknowledge throwing the baby out with bathwater. He worried that such deletions are “just a test balloon for a much wider campaign to suppress content by dissenting voices.” Blumenthal quickly said the removal program had “gone beyond its stated aim” to “ carpet-bombing style censorship.”īlumenthal, like many of the people targeted in removal campaigns, is a controversial figure who has been a consistent critic of U.S. In it, journalist Max Blumenthal interviewed Holocaust denier David Irving. While there’s an argument to be had about clamping down on the purveyors of hate speech, what social or journalistic purpose is served by concealing the existence of such people? And what possible rationale could there be for allowing PBS or a commercial news network to publish such videos, but not smaller shooters like Fischer?Īs part of the new program, YouTube also pulled down a video published by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Fischer case speaks to the inherent inanity of asking nameless, faceless Silicon Valley overlords to weigh things like journalistic intent. He says YouTube ad revenue is “about half of my reliable, baseline income,” the rest coming from Patreon. Fischer describes the first video that got him in trouble, which showed Antifa protesters arguing with a Holocaust denier: “While it’s true that the Holocaust denier says Holocaust-denier stuff,” he says, “this is raw vid documenting him being shut down.”īeing demonetized on YouTube will deal a blow to Fischer’s business. Now his work has been removed because the new policy does not distinguish between showing a Holocaust denier or a white supremacist, and being one. Fischer’s videos have even appeared in Vox.

#Carlos maza vox youtube series#

His work regularly appears in documentaries about subcultures of all types, including the Frontline series “ Documenting Hate” (you can see him credited just above Getty Images at the end). The second was video of a speech given by white nationalist Mike “Enoch” Peinovich.įischer says that “while unpleasant,” the footage is “essential research for history.” It was even used as part of a PBS documentary called “Charlottesville.” Fischer was listed as an executive producer in the film. One involved a pro-Israel activist and pro-Palestine activist arguing with a Holocaust denier. Two videos apparently determined his fate under the new program. “Almost the entire channel is video shot by me, or someone I hire,” Fischer says. It’s valuable, original journalism, not aggregated clickbait. News2Share content spans the spectrum: the site currently contains everything from a protest against the “ Barr Coverup” of the Mueller report, to pro-Assange protests in Britain, to a square-off between gun militias and Antifa in Ohio.

His site acts as a kind of clearing house for political footage of all kinds, including demonstrations, marches, police misconduct and even flash mobs.

“We found that a significant portion of your channel is not in line with our YouTube Partner Program policies.”įischer was one of the first people I spoke with for a Rolling Stone story about Internet censorship published last year. Platforms may not distinguish between reporting on hate speech, and promoting itĪ site called News2Share, run by journalist Ford Fischer, was removed by YouTube this week under the new plan. At least two big things, as it turns out: 1.