YouTube has decided that I cannot watch Russia Today or Sputnik on its platform. For now, I can still watch RT on my SKY box and I can watch it via rt.com but for how long?
Visitors to RT and Sputnik’s channels on YouTube this morning were met with a message saying “this channel is not available in your country.”
Twitter and Facebook have already suspended RT’s accounts.
Until this morning, RT International was among the more popular news services on YouTube. It had nearly five million subscribers. I use the past tense here, because it’s only a matter of time before YouTube/Google deletes RT permanently.
YouTube issued a statement:
“Due to the ongoing war in Ukraine, we’re blocking YouTube channels connected to RT and Sputnik across Europe, effective immediately. It’ll take time for our systems to fully ramp up. Our teams continue to monitor the situation around the clock to take swift action.”
Long before Covid-19, lockdowns and vaccine mandates, I said that Facebook, Google/YouTube and Twitter were propaganda machines for a global, fascistic, totalitarian agenda. I said that they would take up the mantle of Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.
And so it has come to pass.
This happened to The Richie Allen Show in 2017. My YouTube channel had over 100,000 subscribers. At that time, it was growing by three to four thousand followers a month. YouTube deleted it without warning. Gone. Tough shit Paddy.
A handful of corporations now hold the power to determine what is and what isn’t true and the capability to destroy those who would challenge them.
