{"id":1823965,"date":"2023-01-25T16:19:55","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823965"},"modified":"2023-01-25T16:22:20","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T21:22:20","slug":"youtube-restricted-our-kyle-rittenhouse-documentary-we-still-dont-know-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/youtube-restricted-our-kyle-rittenhouse-documentary-we-still-dont-know-why\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Restricted Our Kyle Rittenhouse Documentary. We Still Don\u2019t Know Why."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fyoutube-restricted-our-kyle-rittenhouse-documentary-we-still-dont-know-why%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1823965&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Twitter Files revealed severe corruption of one of the largest content distribution sites on the internet. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-twitter-files-release-shows-how-adam-schiff-staffers-harassed-the-company-with-absurd-ban-requests\">ideological bias<\/a>. According to leaked documents, Twitter employees were seen altering distribution algorithms and suspending accounts for political reasons. The Right always suspected Twitter wasn\u2019t a fair forum; the Twitter Files proved it.<\/p>\n<p>The Right has had similar concerns about YouTube for a long time. YouTube has an estimated monthly user base in excess of 500,000. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.omnicoreagency.com\/youtube-statistics\/\">2.6 billion<\/a> compared Twitter\u2019s estimated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/303681\/twitter-users-worldwide\/\">368 million<\/a> Monthly users. Critics tend not to focus on the obvious acts censorship: Bannedding videos or shutting down channels without any apparent reason, other than that they offend liberal sensibilities. Alternative video hosting sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/\">Rumble<\/a> have emerged to provide Right-wing and heterodox voices a censorship-free platform, but the audiences for those sites remain a microscopic fraction of YouTube\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>My company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodkidproductions.com\/\">Good Kid Productions<\/a>YouTube appears to have used censorship to silence dissident voices. \u201ccommunity safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our channel was launched late last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BzAMjU14z4w\">documentary<\/a> Two viral stories that are well-known in Kenosha, Wisconsin were investigated: the shooting of Jacob Blake (a black man) by a police officer in 2020 and the subsequent violence of BLM riots which resulted in the deaths of two other people by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/thats-when-i-knew-they-didnt-have-a-case-rittenhouse-details-critical-moments-of-trial\">Kyle Rittenhouse<\/a>A young man who brought an AR-15-style rifle with him to Kenosha to protect his private business.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube management left the video unaffected for four weeks, allowing it continue to gain views. YouTube suddenly and without warning, designated the video as &#8220;Unknown&#8221; in December. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/2802167?hl=en\">age-restricted<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This is supposed to be an automatic yellow-card penalty. This is a yellow-card punishment. Videos are given this designation for violating \u201ccommunity guidelines,\u201d The rules were vaguely stated to protect the platform from inappropriate, violent, sexual, dangerous or other offensive content. The \u201cage-restricted\u201d designation doesn\u2019t fully nuke the video: It gets to stay up, but under restrictions that, in theory, simply prevent it from reaching an underage audience.<\/p>\n<p>In practice, age restriction is a death knell: The video can\u2019t be embedded on external websites; viewers have to sign in before they can watch it; and it receives scant \u2013 if any \u2013 boost from YouTube\u2019s recommendation algorithm, which is a crucial source of views.<\/p>\n<p>A documentary deconstructing the media\u2019s coverage of a police shooting and the resulting mass riots is, admittedly, going to contain some mature themes. However, all the \u201cmature\u201d Visuals are from publicly available news articles, which are also freely accessible on YouTube. The violence isn\u2019t graphic. It\u2019s the sort that might make PBS News. There\u2019s no blood, guts, or sex, and there\u2019s just a single use of profanity (by a BLM activist). And YouTube\u2019s community guidelines explicitly carve out exceptions for news pieces, which is exactly what our documentary is.<\/p>\n<p>The original age restriction notice did not specify the part or parts that were problematic so we had to guess how it could be fixed. YouTube has native editing tools that allow channel managers to modify videos after they\u2019ve been published. They were used to reduce gun violence. Then, we submitted an appeal. This appeal is supposed be overseen in person.<\/p>\n<p>We received a reply on January 1, from \u201cEmman\u201d YouTube Support informing Us \u201ca human reviewer re-evaluated your content and determined that it does violate our Community Guidelines. We know this is probably disappointing news, but it\u2019s our job to make sure that YouTube is a safe place for all.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s it for the explanation. Emman didn\u2019t provide specifics. He? it?) didn\u2019t tell us what triggered the original designation or what doomed our appeal. YouTube is likely to receive thousands of appeals every day. We\u2019re not expecting a detailed report; we just want to know what specifically the human reviewer saw that made them rule to retain the restriction.<\/p>\n<p>We asked Emman what parts of the video needed to be changed to remove the restriction. Emman responded on January 12: \u201cI understand that you would like to blur out your video, and have them [sic] be reviewed again. Unfortunately, if the video is already reviewed by our internal team the decision is final regardless if the video is edited or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s it. There is no next step. The video has seen very few views. It\u2019s been shared by several large social media accounts, each with millions of followers, but the age restriction is a traffic choke point, substantially squeezing down the audience generated by those shares.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no definitive proof this restriction is political, but it\u2019s hard not to be suspicious. Our documentary exposes the leftist lies Silicon Valley is spreading about race, police, and other issues. What revelations would a Twitter Files-like reveal about YouTube&#8217;s internal communications? What percentage of these restrictions are arbitrary?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twitter Files revealed that one of the most important content distribution platforms on the internet had been corrupted by severe ideological bias. Leaked documents reveal Twitter staff suspending accounts and tinkering with distribution algorithms for purely political reasons. The Right always suspected Twitter wasn\u2019t a fair forum; the Twitter Files proved it. The Right &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1694,"featured_media":1823968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5844,4894,5172,16467,5173,7273,6562],"class_list":["post-1823965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-documentary","tag-dont","tag-kyle","tag-restricted","tag-rittenhouse","tag-why","tag-youtube"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1694"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1823965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1823968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}