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Big tech has become the Big Brother that George Orwell warned us about in his dystopian classic book, “1984.”
YouTube dropped its Big Brother hammer on the Right Side Broadcasting Network (RSBN) on the eve of Donald Trump’s rally in Sarasota, Florida on Saturday. And if you think that is a coincidence you have not been paying attention to anything.
With one and a half million subscribers, RSBN is one of, if not the most, popular pro-Trump destinations on the Internet, carrying his rallies live because the mainstream media will not.
”YouTube has removed RSBN’s videos of President Trump’s rally last week in Ohio and the speech from the NCGOP convention. They have also given us a strike, and we are suspended from live streaming for one week. You can watch tomorrow’s rally on Rumble or download our app,” it said on Twitter.
🚨 NEW: YouTube has removed RSBN's videos of President Trump's rally last week in Ohio and the speech from the NCGOP convention. They have also given us a strike, and we are suspended from live streaming for one week.
You can watch tomorrow's rally on Rumble or download our app. pic.twitter.com/tYnq4CWOiA
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) July 2, 2021
“The three videos had amassed millions of views, with the Wellington, Ohio speech alone breaking 3 million earlier this week,” it said, Mediaite reported.
The three videos had amassed millions of views, with the Wellington, Ohio speech alone breaking 3 million earlier this week.
— RSBN 🇺🇸 (@RSBNetwork) July 2, 2021
YouTube has suspended RSBN from live streaming and posting content to their YouTube channel on the eve of President Donald Trump’s Save America rally in Sarasota, Florida.
YouTube has also deleted all of RSBN’s coverage of Trump’s June 26 rally in Wellington, Ohio, along with his June 5 speech to the North Carolina GOP convention.
“The videos contain remarks from President Trump that violate the aforementioned policies and countervailing views on those remarks are not provided,” said a YouTube representative. The suspension will be in affect for seven days.
The frightening thing here is the brazenness of not even hiding the reason for the suspension. Not even pretending they did something to break the rules other than to show Donald Trump.
As Mediaite noted, RSBN has been extremely careful about social media guidelines and they still got suspended.
But this is par for the course with big tech. It was in May that Mike Lindell had his Vimeo account removed because he would not get in line.
The Daily Beast reported.
“This is worse than what Twitter did to me and my company!” he said in a phone interview with The Daily Beast on Wednesday. “This affects my business, the Lindell Recovery Network, and the entrepreneurs who I work with.”
Lindell also sent The Daily Beast a screenshot of what he said was an email he and his team received from Vimeo on Wednesday at 12:36 p.m. ET, and it reads, “Your account was terminated for violating Vimeo’s Terms of Service…and Community Guidelines. We do not allow accounts that upload content created by or mainly featuring a banned user. As the purpose of your account is to promote content from a banned user, it has been removed. We wish you the best of luck in finding a hosting platform better suited to your needs.”
Lindell has been a key financial backer and advocate for pro-Trump efforts to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election. In the time since Biden’s inauguration, he has stayed in touch with Trump and has also been embroiled in a legal fight with Dominion Voting Systems.
After the story was published, Vimeo sent a statement to The Daily Beast regarding the action it had taken.
“Vimeo strives to enforce policies objectively and consistently across our platform. The account in question is currently suspended and pending review from our Trust & Safety team. In the event we determine that the account has uploaded content that violates our terms, we will take appropriate action including content removal and, potentially, account termination,” it said.
Big Brother is watching and he does not want you to have access to information he says you should not hear.
