Name: YouTube Helps Cover Up China’s Atrocities
Uploaded: 2021-04-26T14:40:10.000Z
Duration: 12 min 9 s
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Because censorship seems to be what YouTube wants.

If you're watching this show, I assume you're interested in what's happening in China—the

kind of stuff the Chinese regime wants to cover up.

The analysis you won't get from any other media.

But YouTube, which is owned by Google, does not want us to talk about certain “sensitive”

Most of the time, YouTube is not outright censoring China Uncensored.

Instead, they demonetize content that violates their vague “community guidelines.”

A demonetized video means it gets no ads or so-called “limited ads”, which is pretty

And after a video has been demonetized, generally YouTube won't recommend it as much, so the

For example, a few days ago we put out an episode about how Chinese police are stealing

ordinary people's motorcycles, right out from under them.

Can't have people seeing how Chinese police abuse people.

You see, over the years I've found a distinct pattern to what gets demonetized—any footage

from China that makes the Communist Party look bad.

The Communist Party's initial response to the coronavirus was a coverup followed by

We showed you what the Party was doing in this episode, the Coronavirus Cure isn't

So let's take a look at what the People's Republic of China did to deal with the Coronavirus.

Starting with how Chinese officials rounded people up and threw them into mass quarantine

And if people went outside without a mask, they did this.

And this.This guy didn't wear a mask, so they tied him to a pillar.

These ethnic Uyghurs weren't supposed to go outside.

So officials hung signs from their necks calling them dogs.”

The Chinese Communist Party's coronavirus response was horrific.

But at the time, people were praising the Communist Party's response.

Some Western media even suggested you might be better off sheltering in China.

The New York Times suggested that open societies were a problem.

So we figured it was important to show you how bad it really was in China.

And when we did that, YouTube hit us hard.

...then YouTube flat out deleted the video without explanation.

We made a huge stink about it on social media, so they put it back up, again without explanation,

but now it was ineligible for monetization.

You had to be over 18 to see the video, and you'd see this message before you could

Oh, our video was “inappropriate or offensive”?!

I think YouTube's censorship was “inappropriate and offensive”.

And this was far from an isolated incident.

Most of our coronavirus coverage in the early days of the pandemic got demonetized.

But by that point I had noticed a pattern.

It seemed like any time we showed Chinese authorities using violence, we would get demonetized.

Back in 2019, almost all our coverage of the Hong Kong protests were getting demonetized

Here's a clip from our episode Hong Kong Police Lay Siege to University Students.

Over the weekend, Hong Kong police once again surrounded Polytechnic University of Hong

They began arresting students, and...stomping on their heads?!

Overnight clashes began at PolyU on Sunday evening.

Police fired volleys of tear gas and blocked the exits after protesters set fires on a

More than a thousand people were trapped inside the university, including reporters, medics,

It's important for people to see that kind of footage—to know what's really happening

Here's another Hong Kong episode that YouTube age restricted and labeled ineligible for

Clashes between protesters and police in Kong Kong over the weekend turned parts of the

Complete with plenty of police violence, rubber bullets, and enough tear gas to make Chuck

And it wasn't just the coronavirus and Hong Kong stories getting demonetized.

If we showed footage of Uyghurs shackled and blindfolded, YouTube would demonetize us.

When we covered anti-China protests in Vietnam, YouTube would demonetize us.

Here's footage of police cracking down on protesters inside China.

YouTube demonetized AND age-restricted it.

The crazy thing is, all this was being done without any explanation from YouTube.

Eventually, under pressure, YouTube began to tell creators why something was demonetized

after human review by someone at YouTube.

It says our video contains “situations showing hurt, damage, or injury.”

In other words, it exposes what a brutal authoritarian regime is doing—and we can't have that!

Even though YouTube's policies supposedly allow you to show this footage when there's

You know, like the fact that we're reporting the news.

But even when we didn't show that kind of footage, we'd still often get demonetized.

This episode, Coronavirus: 2nd Wave Hits Chinawas demonetized for “harmful or dangerous acts”