The Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL) expresses its solidarity
with the newspaper A Nova Democracia, which on January 15 had itschannel removed from the air by YouTube, even though the platform had
demonetized the channel the day before. YouTube claims that A Nova
Democracia did not follow the "policy of not publishing content from
criminal and violent extremist organizations". The result of this
arbitrary action, without any prior warning, was the impossibility of
accessing more than 15 years of audiovisual production, coverage and
news related to conflicts in the countryside of Brazil and other content
and actions in solidarity with popular struggles, such as those of the
Palestinian people.
The censorship committed by YouTube, which belongs to Google, is
serious, making it clear that the company is aligned with the lies of
the US State Department guidelines, which classify as terrorists the
peoples and groups that organize for sovereignty and fight imperialism.
These are the same guidelines that the bourgeois media companies in
Brazil also reproduce unconditionally, which strengthens, among other
things, genocidal policies such as those practiced by Zionism against
the Palestinian people.
This censorship by YouTube and Google also reinforces the warning about
the monopoly and power that these and other US companies have over
global communication and social networks. Much of the content and
production of the left and social movements is hosted on these
platforms, which, at any moment, can suffer similar attacks and
censorship. It is clear that the owners and shareholders of these
companies condone and collaborate with sectors of the extreme right,
with Trumpism and the rage of neoliberalism that is destroying the world
and only wants profit by subjecting the people to exploitation and
misery. That is why it is important to build a policy to regulate social
networks guided by popular movements, and more than that, the fight
against imperialism and its actions of destabilization, manipulation and
coups, such as those we have suffered in Latin America.
Against censorship by private platforms and full support for popular
communication!
Libertarian Socialist Organization
January 2025
https://socialismolibertario.net/2025/01/21/youtube-censura-a-nova-democracia-nossa-solidariedade-ao-jornal/
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