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YouTube accused of censoring Macklemore's "Hind's Hall" (www.newsweek.com)

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[-] mibo80@lemm.ee 70 points 6 months ago

Great video but I really can't agree with this protest pushing abstinence from voting on the upcoming election. I get that the current administration is enabling this, but the vote for the American president encompasses so much more than international strife. I wish we could separate that notion because it feels like a it's been driven by foreign influence to sway the election. We cannot allow another Trump term. Cannot. If you think a protest for Palestine today is going to impact the presidential election as a "lesson" to your fellow Americans then the next protest against the policies of Project 2025 and Trump, will end up overshadowing all that you're protesting now and the genocide will continue. Project 2025 will destroy America and anything left of Palestine. Yes war needs to stop, but voting for the lesser of two evils is all we get now. There will be not reckoning event for Democrats, they just need to claw back enough power to hold the legislative and keep it from the GOP while also making considerable changes to their own power structures within their party.

[-] GiddyGap@lemm.ee 1 points 6 months ago

Yeah, he's basically calling for people to support Trump by not voting. It'll accomplish the exact opposite of what he's advocating.

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[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 30 points 6 months ago

Reason 2,176 why a corporate controlled Internet is a bad thing.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

And the jackbooted heel turn is just a classic.

Something something Conservatives are the Victim of Cancel Culture something somethi-

Mackelmore gets censored

THE FREE MARKET HAS SPOKEN! ALL HAIL!

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Really not trying to be pedantic about this awful shit, but if you:

A) Support a GENOCIDE

B) Support a system perpetually arming the genocide

C) Think this is an "Us V Them" situation

D) Think this world is a place where retribution to ashes is a good policy

You're a fucked up person. The people being killed here aren't even the ones responsible for the triggering event.

You don't need to be on one side or another to recognize some really awful inhumane shit.

I couldn't give two shits about whomever this is making a stupid song about it.

[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 8 points 6 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

On May 6, the rapper shared the track, which supports a free Palestine and student protests, on his social media accounts.

The song also pays tribute to 6-year-old Hind Rajab, a Palestinian child who was killed by the Israeli military days after she had called emergency services begging to be rescued.

However, the video has been age-restricted on YouTube, where it has been viewed 232,116 times, prompting social media users to accuse the company of limiting the song's reach.

"The fact that there's a YouTube violence warning before the video just proves every single damn point he's making in the song," another added.

The rapper touched on various topics in the song, including American politics and police brutality, and questioned why peaceful protests were being deemed a threat.

The problem isn't the protests, it's what they're protestin'," "Block the barricade until Palestine is free" and "When I was seven, I learned a lesson from Cube and Eazy-E. What was it again?

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[-] gimpchrist@lemmy.world 22 points 6 months ago

Age restricting a video with dead bodies in it doesn't seem too fucking controversial honestly

[-] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago

The controversial part is that Google does not apply the same age restrictions to Israeli musicians promoting genocide and calling for pro-palestiantian artists to be murdered.

Xitter link

Further reading on how Tik Tok ban is largely because the US corporatocracy can't manufacture consent on it the way they do with domestic big tech

[-] xmunk@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 months ago

I tend not to watch Isreali propaganda nor videos of dead bodies - could you clarify if the pro-isreali videos contain similar levels of visual gore?

[-] return2ozma@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The video: https://youtu.be/fgDQyFeBBIo

[-] antlion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago

Also on peertube: https://peertube.tv/w/obin7s8qXr64Hopqkt7xMC

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