{"id":87475,"date":"2013-10-28T22:05:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-28T21:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/did-google-collude-with-obama-administration-to-censor-video\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T00:38:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T23:38:52","slug":"did-google-collude-with-obama-administration-to-censor-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/did-google-collude-with-obama-administration-to-censor-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Google Collude With Obama Administration to Censor Video?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">In a possible act of collusion between the Obama administration and Google-owned YouTube, a video exposing US-backed rebel atrocities in Syria \u2014 which was sent out from Obama\u2019s official Twitter account after it was hijacked by hackers \u2014 was quickly censored by YouTube.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">As Infowars\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/barack-obamas-twitter-facebook-hacked-by-syrian-electronic-army\/\">reported first exclusively,<\/a>\u00a0Obama\u2019s official Twitter, Facebook and campaign website were hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army earlier today. The accounts were hijacked and used to promote a video to Obama\u2019s combined total of 76 million followers.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The clip was a 24 minute compilation of rebel atrocities and terrorist attacks committed in Syria.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Within hours, the video was removed for \u201cshocking and disgusting content,\u201d despite having already been hosted on YouTube for months.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Only after the video started receiving attention as a result of Obama\u2019s hijacked Twitter account did YouTube see fit to delete the video, suggesting collusion between YouTube and the White House at some level.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">YouTube routinely censors content in response to requests from governments and law enforcement authorities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/feds-order-you-tube-to-remove-video-for-containing-government-criticism\/\">As we reported in 2011<\/a>, demands to remove information, including videos containing \u201cgovernment criticism,\u201d are increasing year upon year. YouTube complies with the majority of the requests, including the removal of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/government-orders-you-tube-to-censor-protest-videos\/\">videos which merely show political demonstrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">\u201cYouTube occasionally receives legal complaints from governments around the world to block content on our site. After a review of the legal complaint and the content at issue, YouTube may block specific content in order to comply with local laws in certain countries,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/youtube\/answer\/1099103\">states the company\u2019s disclaimer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The notion that the Obama administration asked Google-owned YouTube to remove the Syria video that was sent out from Obama\u2019s hijacked Twitter and Facebook accounts is plausible given Google CEO Eric Schmidt\u2019s cozy relationship with the White House.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Schmidt has been a major donor to Obama\u2019s two presidential campaigns and served as an informal advisor during Obama\u2019s 2008 White House run. After his success in 2012,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/technology\/google\/9723401\/Eric-Schmidt-declines-Obama-cabinet-post.html\">Obama even offered Schmidt<\/a>\u00a0a major cabinet post.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a title=\"Did Google Collude With Obama Administration to Censor Video?\" href=\"http:\/\/www.infowars.com\/did-google-collude-with-obama-administration-to-censor-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">Infowars<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Joseph Watson In a possible act of collusion between the Obama administration and Google-owned YouTube, a video exposing US-backed rebel atrocities in Syria \u2014 which was sent out from Obama\u2019s official Twitter account after it was hijacked by hackers \u2014 was quickly censored by YouTube. As Infowars\u00a0reported first exclusively,\u00a0Obama\u2019s official Twitter, Facebook and campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87475","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}