{"id":395109,"date":"2019-02-04T10:27:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-who-will-guard-us-from-the-guardians-youtube-protects-users-by-hiding-conspiracy-theories\/"},"modified":"2019-02-04T10:27:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T09:27:10","slug":"prison-planet-com-who-will-guard-us-from-the-guardians-youtube-protects-users-by-hiding-conspiracy-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-who-will-guard-us-from-the-guardians-youtube-protects-users-by-hiding-conspiracy-theories\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Who Will Guard Us From The Guardians? YouTube \u201cProtects\u201d Users By Hiding \u201cConspiracy Theories\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Robert Bridge<\/strong>
The Strategic Culture Foundation
<\/em><\/a>February 1, 2019<\/p>\n

Flat earth, 9\/11 \u2018inside job\u2019, and the Kennedy assassination \u2018cover-up\u2019. These are just some of the \u2018conspiracy theories\u2019 that YouTube will baby proof going forward, hiding such content from users as if they were not cognitively thinking adults capable of making rational decisions.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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This month,\u00a0disgraced<\/a>\u00a0Buzzfeed performed yet another astonishing feat of shoddy, agenda-driven journalism by\u00a0reporting<\/a>\u00a0that it took just nine mouse clicks on YouTube to go from a PBS report on the 116th\u00a0Congress to a video entitled \u2018A Day in the Life of an Arizona Rancher,\u2019 produced by a Washington immigration reform group known as The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).<\/p>\n

The\u00a0video<\/a>\u00a0that so enraged Buzzfeed details the story of Richard Humphries, an Arizona resident and former narcotics officer living just miles from the US-Mexico border. Humphries, increasingly concerned with the number of illegals traversing his 75-acre ranch, built a watchtower on his sprawling property to help him and federal border agents track illegal aliens. Considering the \u2018extremist nature\u2019 of the content, is it any surprise that the CIS was branded in 2016 a \u2018hate group\u2019 by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a group itself that has been portrayed as touting a\u00a0leftist agenda<\/a>, yet is quietly\u00a0partnering<\/a>\u00a0with YouTube to flag \u2018hate\u2019 content?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Buzzfeed article\u00a0took exception<\/a>\u00a0with many other \u2018right-wing\u2019 videos that had the audacity to rear their racist heads in YouTube\u2019s auto-select function.<\/strong> One of those channels is called PragerU, which hosts popular liberal bugbears, including Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson, James Damore and Charlie Kirk. The channel, which filed a lawsuit to stop Google and YouTube from illegally censoring its educational videos and discriminating against its right to freedom of speech, operates on\u00a0the…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Robert BridgeThe Strategic Culture FoundationFebruary 1, 2019 Flat earth, 9\/11 \u2018inside job\u2019, and the Kennedy assassination \u2018cover-up\u2019. These are just some of the \u2018conspiracy theories\u2019 that YouTube will baby proof going forward, hiding such content from users as if they were not cognitively thinking adults capable of making rational decisions. This month,\u00a0disgraced\u00a0Buzzfeed performed yet another […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-395109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}