YouTube Is Purging Evidence Of US War Crimes In Middle East - Your News Wire
Author: http://facebook.com/carol.adl
Description: YouTube labels videos showing the US conducting airstrikes and committing war crimes in the Middle East as "extremist" content.
Date: 2017-08-14T19:50:11+00:00

Headlines

- [ August 15, 2017 ] Lawsuit Alleges Criminal Anti-Sanders Bias By Democrat Party News
- [ August 15, 2017 ] Male Prostitute Found Murdered At Home Of Clinton Aide News
- [ August 15, 2017 ] Putin Tells Washington: Withdraw Your Troops From Afghanistan News
- [ August 15, 2017 ] Scientists Hail Cancer Cure Breakthrough That Heals Tumors ‘In Days’ Sci/Environment
- [ August 15, 2017 ] Soros Admits He ‘Ramped Up’ Lobbying Efforts In 2017 News

Search for:

# YouTube Is Purging Evidence Of US War Crimes In Middle East

August 14, 2017 Carol Adl News, World 3

Last month YouTube censored a video showing US military airdrops falling into the hands of ISIS.

According to the YouTube team, the video, posted by alternative geopolitical analyst Mimi Al Laham aka “Partisan Girl,” was repeatedly deleted due to the fact that it violated their Community Guidelines.

Now YouTube has found new targets to censor by labelling videos showing the US conducting airstrikes and committing war crimes in the Middle East as “extremist” content.

The Free Thought Project reports:

The monitoring organization Airwars.org recently reported that its YouTube account had been targeted, just one week after YouTube published a new blog post announcing that it is “developing and implementing cutting-edge machine learning technology designed to help us identify and remove violent extremism and terrorism-related content in a scalable way.”

Airwars raised the issue on Twitter, noting that after approving hundreds of their videos documenting U.S. airstrikes, YouTube has suddenly blocked three videos out of nowhere. The newly blocked videos showed U.S. coalition airstrikes that were reportedly targeting ISIS, and their dates ranged from August 2015 to March 2016.

> Can you work out why @TeamYouTube has banned these three videos? We can’t. Of 100s we have archived since 2014, these 3 blocked this weeek pic.twitter.com/Yu0ZniC6My

> — Airwars (@airwars) August 8, 2017

> The 2nd is from March 2016, and is still on Pentagon’s media channel. A war act, though unclear how it breaches T&Cs https://t.co/CglVqcnDcA

> — Airwars (@airwars) August 8, 2017

> 3rd video also 2016. Again. unclear how this differs from 100s of military videos we’ve archived for public record https://t.co/zFVIkObiS6

> — Airwars (@airwars) August 8, 2017

Airwars later posted an update, which said that following the publicity around YouTube’s decision to block the videos, the platform had apparently chosen to remove the ban from the three videos, and it implemented an 18 years and over age restriction. “Adult-only war,” Airwars remarked, noting that “Archiving published Coalition videos creates permanent public record of conflict.”

> Update: @YouTube appears to have lifted bans following today’s publicity – though has replaced with an age 18 restriction. Adult-only war. pic.twitter.com/prePjWh8B1

> — Airwars (@airwars) August 8, 2017

Chris Woods, the head of Airwars, told Middle East Eye that he is still in negotiations with YouTube over a number of videos, but he sees this trend as one that risks “severely undermining work done by Syrian opposition activists.”

“I think what’s so troubling about this if we look at the Syrian accounts, this is video chronicling a six or seven-year war, and some of the most important parts of that war from the perspective of Syrians,” Woods said.

Middle East Eye also reported that it has had similar problems with YouTube after the platform removed a number of videos, “some of which were later given age restrictions, some of which remain removed.”

> YouTube told MEE in an email that the video ‘Drone footage by Islamic State shows suicide car attacks on Iraqi forces inside Mosul’ was removed and that YouTube had ‘assigned a Community Guidelines strike, or temporary penalty’ to MEE’s account. The same occurred in the case of ‘Video appears to show Egyptian soldiers carrying out extra-judicial killings.’ MEE lodged an appeal with YouTube and received this response:

> ‘After further review of the content, we’ve determined that your video does violate our Community Guidelines and have upheld our original decision. We appreciate your understanding.’

> Another video, documenting the destruction of Nimrud by IS, which is widely available across the internet, was removed from an MEE staff account, and all appeals were rejected.

The report from Middle East Eye also claimed that Alexa O’Brien, an American journalist who covered the US prosecution of WikiLeaks’ whistleblower Chelsea Manning, reported on Twitter that the infamous videos released by Manning that showed the U.S. military blatantly committing war crimes were removed from YouTube. Her Twitter account is currently set to private.

- About
- Latest Posts

### Carol Adl

Writer at Your News Wire

#### Latest posts by Carol Adl (see all)

- CIA Head Ties Venezuela Crisis To Iran, Hezbollah, Russia & Cuba - August 14, 2017
- YouTube Is Purging Evidence Of US War Crimes In Middle East - August 14, 2017
- Fleas In Arizona Test Positive For Bubonic Plague - August 14, 2017

- sandy daniels

  War crimes my azz.

  - http://oldephartte.blogspot.ca/ opit

    Your azz commits war crimes ? Chemical warfare, perhaps

    - Leiacfarley

      > our co worker’s aunt makes $87 each hour from home, she has been unemployed for two months and last month her check was $13477 just working on the internet for a couple of hours per day.. ➤ check ➤ this ➤ page
      > ➜➜➜http://www.GoogleFinancialCashJobs397GroupGood/Home/Wage….
      > ✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤✤::::af107

Copyright © 2017 The People’s Voice, Inc. All rights reserved | Your News Wire