Microblog Memes

Pre-internet there was a certain amount of natural limit on how much bullshit one could spread, because you had to print physical newspapers and find distributors, which meant that you had to have a name and a business address people could find you at.

With 2000s Internet this limiter was removed, but counterbalanced by everyone being able to present their own side for the marketplace of ideas.

Now in 2025 we’re in the worst of both worlds, where a tiny number of trillion-dollar companies control 98% of Internet traffic and are making it clear that they have no qualms abusing that power to shape public discourse.

There is no safety on corporate media. This is why we built the fediverse.

If you've been on the internet for a decade or two and can't find news you clearly remember that happened about the big corp, tech or the government, you know these ghouls work together to shape a narrative. They scrub the internet clean of it.

These companies (big tech and news corps) being a monopolies isn't a coincidence, authoritarian governments like it when they have direct access to narrative control.

Needless to say, archive everything you think could disappear, in multiple places, and possibly in regions of their geopolitical rivals.

The fuck does Google even get out of this? At some point I really just do not understand why people are so aggressively supporting Israel’s genocide. Like, the fervor behind their support is crazy for all people who aren’t directly responsible for creating the problem and who could so easily just not support this shit.

I know there’s money involved but this is ridiculous.

Can someone let that reporter know that PeerTube and other YouTube alternatives already exist.

Yes there are less viewers comparing to YouTube but at least the content willl be not removed.

No community guidelines violated

soldiers shooting civilians, including children

I mean, it's right there. YouTube ain't LiveLeak.

Boycott YouTube…

The Nazis also tried to cover up evidence of their genocide

Google's slogan 15 years ago
Don't be Evil

Google's slogan today
Do~~n't be~~ Evil

We really live in a world where "YouTube took down my warcrime videos" is bigger news than "there are warcrimes being committed"

google is waaaaaaaaay beyond "don't be evil". Right now, for them any kind of statement is just a temporary transportation between their position and more tech monopoly.

LiveLeak was killed for a reason. You might not like what it was, but it would have been fine with hosting these things.

This is why the world is so terrible: centralization of capital and thus also attention in the hands of unscrupulous monsters.

In Western countries, we may convince ourselves that we are better than the neglected Third World countries because of all our technology. That is not the case—in fact, the opposite is true, because our inhumane rulers have incomparably more power.

I have to wonder: did they seriously mean it when they made "don't be evil" their company motto way back in the day? I'd be open to the idea that they were sincere at the time and then had their brains broken and their souls corroded by extreme wealth.

Or, maybe they were being dishonest even back then, and that mercenary attitude is what you need to succeed in Corporate America.

In fairness they do this with ISIS videos too. It's hard to preserve warcrimes evidence that gets posted to social media no matter who committed it as every platform just deletes it. We need government policy here

We are all Palestine.

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/Installation

was.. he using youtube as a backup?! like, just reupload, or ipfs, torrent, like.. there are ways to male this NEVER GO AWAY