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Outrageous: YouTube yanked Ondrasik’s “Blood on My Hands” protest song video HotAir

By Thomas A. Smith

Imagine, pun intended, if YouTube applied a gatekeeping click to access Imagine for being offensive to religious sensibilities. What if YouTube took down a music video for Four Dead in Ohio for using footage of the Kent State massacre? The outcry from media and pop culture and especially the entertainment industry would be massive. Instead, YouTube s attempt to smother and then absurdly gatekeep Blood on My Hands gets nary a peep except in the UK-based Daily Mail.

via hotair.com

YouTube is evil. They’re owned by Google, so why wouldn’t they be? Google’s slogan should be “Evil: It’s how we roll.” If you set up a little podcast and said simply “I think it’s wrong for China to kill people and steal their organs, even if they do make money doing it,” or “I think China is wrong to repress the political freedom of Hong Kongers” or “Chairman Xi looks like Winne the Poo. He’s fat,” your video would perhpas not be taken down, but 100 percent you would be demonetized. Why is that? Why don’t people complain about that? Why doesn’t that make Google abject collaborators with the most evil, vile regime in the world? It’s a mystery — or not. It’s because they want that China market and they’ll do anything to get it. That, plus they have a soft spot for Communism. People don’t get big business. You start out believing in free enterprise. After you make it big, you turn of free enterprise, which means you have to compete, and give somebody else a chance. Who wants to do that? As Peter Theil said, competition is for losers. So you become a Communist or as close to it as you can get. You’re an opportunistic Communist. Google and the rest of them would steal your organs themselves if they could get away with it, and if your organs would fetch a good price, or, let me put it this way, you really don’t want to find out if they would, unless you have an extra liver laying around. Most of us don’t. I get ads all day warning me of tha dangers of poisoned liver syndrome, as well as anti-constipation cures, which makes me wonder what Google knows that I don’t.