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Big Tech’s Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media

09/01/2021 by Idelto Editor

During the last few days, the world has watched the Big Tech and social media crackdown after the incident that took place at Capitol Hill a few days ago. During the last 48 hours, U.S. President Donald Trump, a great number of right-wing supporters, and literally anyone who speaks out against the U.S. government has been censored. The extreme Big Tech censorship has driven a great number of social media participants to search for censorship-resistant alternatives.

Big Tech’s Purge

In 2020 and into 2021, mainstream media alongside the help of Twitter, Google, Apple, Youtube, Amazon, and Facebook has managed to whitewash the corruption and scandalous acts caused by the U.S. bureaucracy. Following the large protest in Washington and the protestors who managed to enter the Capitol building; videos, pictures, and viral social media posts littered the internet capturing the day’s events. Then after it was all said and done, in a matter of mere hours, Big Tech and the social media giants started to purge any dissent.

These tech companies ARE becoming the state.

Privacy violations, blatant bans and an extraordinary willingness to appease increasingly authoritarian governments.

— russ (@RussellOkung) January 9, 2021

On January 7, Facebook announced the deletion of President Trump’s page and also said that it would be deleting all the commentary that shows “praise and support of the storming of the U.S. Capitol.” Facebook said they would also be deleting posts that call for peaceful protests, alongside pictures and videos of the Capitol breach.

History and future Americans will not judge kindly those who in times of crisis chose to censor and silence their fellow Americans.

— Rob Schneider (@RobSchneider) January 9, 2021

Facebook has further implemented a new feature asking the user if they are sure they want to post. The company has started to purge any dissent toward the American bureaucracy and plan to “update labels on posts” and add more fact-checkers. Facebook said the firm will leverage “AI to demote content that likely violates our policies.”

85,000 followers purged in a day and a half.

I guess the Twitter folks missed all the liberal blather about “unity.”

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 9, 2021

Additionally, Twitter decided to follow Facebook’s censorship path as well, and also banned the @realdonaldtrump account with 87 million followers. Twitter called the President’s account a “risk” that could further incite violence and called the Capitol building breach “horrific.” The company highlighted two tweets written by Trump and said that they glorified violence. Following the deletion of Trump’s account, Twitter also slashed the followers of many activists who have shown any signs of a dissenting viewpoint.

On January 9th 2021 Silicon Valley took over. Welcome to a new world.

— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 9, 2021

Further, left-wing supporters have applauded the censorship and a great majority of the bureaucrats have joined the purge as well. Some of them have even called on Apple and Google for the deletion of censorship-resistant social media apps like Parler. Many progressives have fully supported the censorship of dissenting views, and are calling for even more censoring.

Decentralized Networks and Blockchain-Based Social Media Alternatives

The intense censorship storm has invoked a great number of people to leave Twitter and Facebook and search for alternatives. Of course, there are decentralized alternatives that don’t use blockchain tech like Diaspora, Mastodon, Parler, Flote, Sola, and Manyverse, but there are many social media apps that do use blockchain tech.

A blockchain-based social media application operates just like the popular social media giants we all use today, but they also allow people to post content in a censorship-resistant and immutable fashion.

Big Tech's Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media
One particular decentralized application called memo.cash skips all the censorship nonsense, as it allows users to post content to the BCH chain. In November 2020, memo.cash launched its iOS application for the App Store.

Right now there are a few blockchain-based alternative social media sites that allow people to speak and share content in an immutable fashion. Some of these applications have been operating for a few years now, and some of them are just starting to kickstart the social network. These platforms are also built on various blockchains like Ethereum, Bitcoin Cash, IOTA, EOS, and more.

Big Tech's Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media
Lbry is a sharing platform that uses blockchain technology to enable users to publish material and get paid for doing so. Peepeth is similar to Twitter but user content is etched to the Ethereum blockchain.

A few of the apps also leverage both blockchain technology and the Inter-Planetary File System (ipfs.io) in a combination. Blockchain apps that people can sign up for and test today include platforms like Voice, Memo.cash, Peepeth, Member.cash, Socialx, Sapien, Lbry, Dtube, All.me, Minds, Society2, Peakd, Hive, and Indorse.

Big Tech's Freedom of Speech Purge Pushes People to Censorship-Resistant Blockchain Social Media
The blockchain-based social network Minds moved to the Ethereum network in 2018. Minds calls the application a cross-platform distributed social networking service.

For instance, the app Peepeth is a decentralized “microblogging” platform that emulates Twitter in some ways. The platform is built using the Ethereum blockchain and IPFS. Another application called Memo.cash is a decentralized social network powered by the Bitcoin Cash blockchain. Essentially, all Memo posts are visible to anyone using the BCH blockchain, with each Memo account being associated with a BCH wallet address. Member.cash is another decentralized public platform for discussion and reputation built using the BCH chain. The Member.cash model is similar to Reddit, but leverages the BCH network for censorship resistance and decentralization.

The application called Minds leverages the Ethereum (ETH) network and claims to be accessible to all, and says it is censorship-resistant as well. People looking for Youtube alternatives can try Dtube or Lbry. For instance, Lbry’s creators say the app is a decentralized content sharing and publishing platform that is wholly owned by its users. There are many types of social media applications that leverage blockchain, decentralization techniques like IPFS, and have created places where anyone can speak their minds.

As usual, the biggest downfall of all these applications is the lack of users, as most people have not gravitated toward decentralized social media. However, during the last few years as nation-states have ramped up censorship, and heightened the crackdown against anti-government rhetoric, these platforms have seen significant growth.

The best thing people can do right now is to start migrating toward social media applications that offer decentralization and blockchain censorship-resistance, because the dystopian world that looks an awful lot like Fahrenheit 451 or 1984 is surely upon us.

What do you think about the myriad of censorship-resistant and blockchain-based social media applications? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

Filed Under: All.me, Apple, Big Tech, Bitcoin Cash, Blockchain, Censorship Resistance, Dtube, English, ETH, Ethereum, Facebook, Google, Indorse, Instagram, Lbry, Member.cash, Memo.cash, minds, News Bitcoin, Op-ed, Peakd, Peepeth, Sapien, Social Media Giants, Socialx, Society2, Twitter, Voice

Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites, Scams Make the Top Results

13/12/2020 by Idelto Editor

Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites, Scams Make the Top Results

As the digital asset economy grows popular and a number of crypto companies become well known, copycat scammers appear in greater numbers. There are a number of websites that are clones of the official web page from companies that provide mining device sales, wallets, full nodes, paper wallet tools, and popular trading platforms.

Just recently, news.Bitcoin.com wrote a report on mining devices, and one of the links we found looked like it belonged to a reliable mining manufacturer, but the URL really went to a copycat site that looked identical to the original URL. People make mistakes and the fact of the matter is some of these scams can be awfully hard to catch. That’s because oftentimes these web pages look exactly the same as the official website, minus a few minor details.

Some shady websites are quite obvious, like when news.Bitcoin.com’s Terence Zimwara wrote about Bitcoin Inc. and the ostensible fractional share tokens. However, some web pages are straight-up copycat web pages, and are nearly identical to the official page. For instance, there is a copycat website of the mining rig manufacturer Strongu’s official page. Google happens to keep to have the sketchy website posted at the very top of the results page.

Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites at the Top of the Results

The site is called “strongutech.com” and the real web page is really called “strongu.com.cn/.” The copycat website, which uses the word “tech” in the name, was created to be a phony sales site. It also managed to make it to the top of Google’s browser results with little effort. It should be known that the copycat website is not the company’s official mining store. News.Bitcoin.com has reported it to Google’s anti-phishing page which allows people to report suspicious websites.

Spoofing reliable crypto company websites has been happening for years. For instance, six years ago the popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase was spoofed by a web page called “coinbase.re/,” and everything was real except the sign-in button. Which means, after an unsuspecting Coinbase customer used it the hacker would steal login credentials. The website also was the very first “sponsored” post on the top of the Bing browser’s results page.

Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites at the Top of the ResultsLast summer, law enforcement in Europe arrested a group who spoofed the website Blockchain.com. The hackers managed to empty the wallets of 4,000 victims. All the malicious actors did was leverage a technique called “typosquatting,” which uses a domain name but with one small typo. There are fake paper wallet generator sites people have been complaining about over the years. Three months ago, a Reddit user also reported on a phony Ian Coleman BIP39 page on the top of Google’s results.

Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites at the Top of the Results

Day in and day out, scammers are using spoof websites and typosquatting to steal people’s cryptocurrencies. Scammers are also appearing on Google’s Play Store copying reputable brands and creating fake apps. Just recently, Satoshilabs, the company that manufactures the Trezor hardware wallet tweeted about an Android app that was pretending to be the official application.

“A warning to all the Android users owning Trezor devices,” the company tweeted on December 2, 2020. “This app is a scam and has no relation to SatoshiLabs and Trezor. We’ve already reported it to the Google team. Always confirm any action on your device and never type seed words until your Trezor asks you to,” the hardware wallet manufacturer added.

The fact of the matter is that as cryptocurrencies become more popular, copycats, scammers, and website spoofers will grow in number. Always make sure the URL is 100% correct when accessing the wallet, exchange, mining company, or any service you use with crypto. There have been plenty of cases where Google, Bing, and other popular browsers allow copycat spoof websites at the top of the results page, and some scams are even sponsored.

You can report phishing websites to Google and other browsers, so other individuals can have a safer browsing experience surfing the web. Moreover, many crypto companies like Coinbase offer people methods to report phishing and spoof sites as well.

What do you think about the growing number of copycat and spoof crypto sites? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.

The post Popular Browsers Like Google Fail to Catch Copycat Crypto Sites, Scams Make the Top Results appeared first on Bitcoin News.

Filed Under: bing, Bitcoin, Blockchain.com, BTC, Coinbase, Crypto Sites, cryptocurrency, English, Exchanges, fake paper wallet generator, Fake Strongu Website, Fake Web Pages, Google, Google Results, Google search, News Bitcoin, security, security measures, Security Precautions, Spoof Pages, Trezor, Trezor Spoof app, Typosquatting, Wallets

Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell’s 6 Qubit Quantum Computer

22/06/2020 by Idelto Editor

Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell's 6 Qubit Quantum Computer

On June 19, 2020, the massive industrial firm Honeywell told the public the company is now running a quantum computer that effectively leverages six effective quantum bits, or qubits. Honeywell’s machine is two times more powerful than the quantum computers designed by IBM and Google. With Honeywell revealing the new quantum computer, skeptics have already started discussing the future effects on Bitcoin and 256-bit encryption.

Honeywell Reveals a Powerful Six Qubit Quantum Computer Invoking Theoretical Discussions About Bitcoin’s 256-bit Cryptography

In January 2019, bitcoiners started talking about theoretical attacks against the Bitcoin network, after IBM unveiled its Q System One at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019. The following September, the Bitcoin network threat conversation and debates picked up again, when the press reported on Google’s quantum computer performing a calculation that deemed it the “world’s most powerful supercomputer.”

Another big reveal has invoked discussions of a quantum computer breaking 256-bit encryption and the foundations of Bitcoin’s cryptography once again, and debates have started to heat up. The reason for these new conversations is due to an announcement made on Thursday from the firm Honeywell.

Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell's 6 Qubit Quantum Computer
Honeywell’s 6 Qubit Quantum Computer.

According to the reports, Honeywell’s new quantum computer is two times more efficient than the IBM Q System One and Google’s supercomputer. Reports say that Honeywell’s quantum computer is a “game-changer” and it is heralded for the resulting “volume” of quantum processing power.

Now even though Honeywell’s quantum computer is quite powerful, in order to break Bitcoin’s 256-bit cryptography, it would take anywhere between 2,000 to 3,000 qubits of computing power. Estimates say that it would take computer scientists roughly a decade to even attempt to crack today’s 256-bit encryption, or projects like Bitcoin that leverage the cryptography.

Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell's 6 Qubit Quantum Computer
Honeywell’s supercomputer is reportedly 2X faster than Google’s quantum computer and the IBM Q System One.

Honeywell’s latest machine is live and it has the processing power of around six qubits, which is quite powerful, but still a few thousand qubits less than what is needed to even threaten Bitcoin. The industry giant Honeywell and its new quantum computer is fast and has received praise for its “quantum volume of 64.” The publicly-traded company worth over $80 billion is also involved with blockchain research and development.

Honeywell International Inc., has revealed a number of projects that leverage blockchain ledgers. However, with Honeywell’s new quantum computer, skeptics think that it could threaten Bitcoin’s underlying infrastructure, specifically SHA256. A number of Bitcoin-based hash values could theoretically make generated private keys vulnerable to a brute force attacks.

2^128 is a Really Big Number

In a Twitter discussion between long time Bitcoin proponent Gabor Gurbacs, Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, and Blockstream’s Adam Back, the group also discussed the theoretical threat.

“Even if one could simulate a quantum computer classically, there are a number of quantum-secure signature schemes that can be used to secure Bitcoin/blockchains,” Gurbacs tweeted on June 19. “I expect those signature schemes to be implemented as practical/deployable quantum computing power increases,” he added.

Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell's 6 Qubit Quantum Computer
Estimates say that it would take computer scientists 2,000 to 3,000 qubits to even come close to ‘breaking Bitcoin.’ Honeywell’s 6 Qubit Quantum Computer did receive praise for its “quantum volume of 64,” but it’s not even close to threatening SHA256.

Moreover, bitcoiners also discussed the well known bitcoin pundit Alistair Milne’s recent experience, when he had a single BTC giveaway where he gave out 8/12 seed words on Twitter. His mnemonic phrase or seed was brute force attacked, and the person wrote an interesting Medium blog post on how the assault was successful. Still, many veteran bitcoiners are simply not concerned about Honeywell’s new supercomputer or brute force attacks. After, Milne’s giveaway was spoiled, he jokingly tweeted about the subject last Thursday. “Lost all my bitcoin in a 1-trillion calculation brute force attack,” Milne said.

Of course, Milne made it far easier for hackers, by giving away a number of seed words too early and the developer who brute-forced the seed, John Cantrell, noted that it is much harder to do this to an unknown seed. In a tweet thread on June 19, Cantrell said that 12-word Bitcoin mnemonics themselves are secure, as long as people don’t “give out any of [the] words on Twitter.”

“Your bitcoin is safe. 2^128 is a REALLY big number – Just don’t let anyone near your seed words,” Cantrell added.

Extra Protection: Don’t Reuse Bitcoin Addresses

Other people on Twitter also stressed that they did not fear Honeywell’s new supercomputer or theoretical brute force attacks on Bitcoin because the cryptography is double protected.

Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell's 6 Qubit Quantum Computer
Many bitcoin proponents have explained that if bitcoiners don’t reuse addresses they are giving their coins more security. Andreas Antonopoulos has also said that Satoshi’s two cryptography design choices are “absolutely genius.” “What you use as a Bitcoin address is a double-hashed version of your public key — Which means that the public key is never seen by anyone until you claim it by spending the transaction. — Therefore if you use the fundamental best practice of Bitcoin, which is only using an address once, use a different address for every transaction, spend it completely every time you use it to redirect the change to a new address,” Antonopoulos said in a keynote speech years ago.

The software engineer at Cashapp, Danny Diekroeger, tweeted about the quantum discussion and said: “Even a 51% isn’t the end of the world — It would take continued cash flow to keep the attack running so it ends eventually.”

“As for quantum – it is a risk for every form of cryptography/encryption, etc — The entire internet is as risk,” Diekroeger further stated.

“I expect best practice quantum algorithms to emerge, and worst case Bitcoin could fork (hard or soft not sure) to include state of the art algorithms — There are two main primitives used in bitcoin: hash functions and ECDSA (elliptic curve digital signature algorithm). Quantum would crack ECDSA first, far before it would crack hash functions. Mining uses hash functions, so quantum won’t affect that at first. ECDSA is what gives us private/public keys and signing.” Diekroeger added:

So if you share your public key, an advanced quantum computer could figure out your private key. Good news is most bitcoin addresses don’t share a public key — They share a hash of the public key so there’s extra protection. We don’t reveal our public key until we *spend* from an address. So by simply not reusing addresses, you’ll be protected from quantum computing even if ECDSA is compromised.

Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell's 6 Qubit Quantum Computer
“This little genius design element is not an accident,” Antonopoulos further said in his keynote speech. “What it does is, it creates a second abstraction layer of the underlying cryptographic algorithm used in elliptic curve digital signatures allowing you to do future upgrades. Which means that the past is secure because it is hidden behind the second veil of a different algorithm and the future can be changed because you can present an address that is not the hash of an elliptic curve, or its the hash of a different elliptic curve, or its the hash of a bigger elliptic curve, or its the hash of a signing algorithm that is quantum-resistant that has nothing to do with elliptic curve. So, you can do a forward modification to secure the future, and you’ve got backward protection because you have hid the past,” the Bitcoin evangelist added.

Whatever the case may be, Honeywell’s new six quantum bits have given bitcoiners another moment to argue about whether or not quantum computers are a threat to the Bitcoin network. For now, most veterans are not at all concerned that the 10-year timeline estimates are probably much shorter, with Honeywell’s latest six qubit innovation. Despite this, many Bitcoin optimists believe they can safely fork the code toward a quantum-resistant algorithm if they needed to in the future.

What do you think about Honeywell’s new six quantum bit computer and the possible threat to Bitcoin? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments below.

The post Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell’s 6 Qubit Quantum Computer appeared first on Bitcoin News.

Filed Under: Adam Back, Alistair Milne, Andreas Antonopolous, Bitcoin, Bitcoin network, Brute Force, BTC, cryptocurrency, elliptic curve, English, Gabor Gurbacs, Google, Honeywell, Honeywell Quantum Computer, IBM, John Cantrell, News Bitcoin, private keys, Quantum Computers, Seeds, SHA256, technology, underlying cryptographic algorithm, Vitalik Buterin

Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com’s Official Channel After Suspension

15/06/2020 by Idelto Editor

Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com's Official Channel After Suspension

Just recently, the official Bitcoin.com Youtube channel was suspended and removed from the popular video platform. During the last 12 months, Youtube has censored information and banned cryptocurrency video coverage with no remorse. As the censorship continues to wreak havoc on innocent content creators, a number of people are migrating to decentralized platforms. On Monday, Youtube decided to reinstate the official Bitcoin.com channel and 40,000+ subscribers can once again watch our educational and informative content.

Youtube’s Blatant Censorship and Manipulation

A few days ago, Youtube had banned Bitcoin.com’s official video and streaming channel giving no reasons except a vague “violation of Youtube’s Terms of Service” accusation. The Google-owned video-sharing platform has been censoring and banning a number of content creators during the last year.

On May 18, 2020, news.Bitcoin.com reported on how Bitcoin.com’s official channel was warned for sharing a video about mining bitcoin. Prior to Bitcoin.com’s warning, Youtube was already censoring cryptocurrency news outlets and content creators and banning them in mass numbers. Youtube has also censored massive amounts of information in regards to the recent riots in America, and the Covid-19 outbreak as well. Not only that, but even though they claim to be protecting viewers, Youtube has allowed a myriad of scams to run rampant on the video-sharing platform to this day.

Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com's Official Channel After Suspension
The letter from Youtube that explains the alleged violation.

On June 13, 2020, Bitcoin.com was notified that the official Youtube account was banned. The Youtube channel offered resources and information, alongside cryptocurrency news coverage on a weekly basis. There is no given reason to why Youtube decided to shut the account down with over 40 thousand subscribers, besides the standard “a violation of Youtube’s Terms of Service” excuse. 12 hours ago, Bitcoin.com’s Roger Ver uploaded a video post to the r/btc subreddit called “Youtube is becoming a tool for social media manipulation and censorship.” In the video, Ver said he suspected that a number of “maximalists falsely reported” the channel.

Decentralized Video Sharing Alternatives, and an ‘Active Political Voice Within the Cryptocurrency Community’

Essentially, Youtube administrators had “basically no reason” to ban the official Bitcoin.com account, Ver stressed. After discussing the blatant censorship and bans, Ver discussed certain decentralized video and streaming services like Bitchute, Lbry.tv, and Dtube. He noted that these platforms still need to obtain a network effect, and that he was still discovering the benefits of each platform.

Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com's Official Channel After Suspension

The censorship did not stop Bitcoin.com and our official channel has migrated to Lbry.tv, as our team has been uploading cryptocurrency video coverage on specific news stories. Bitcoin.com had also written an appeal letter to the Google-owned video-sharing operation and the letter details the company’s official account did no wrong.

“Bitcoin.com operates a long-standing Youtube channel delivering all-original education, news, and marketing content related to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and cryptocurrency in general,” explains a shortened version of Bitcoin.com’s appeal letter to Youtube. “We never violate Youtube’s copyright policies and we are always fully compliant with the Youtube Community Guidelines. We are a frequent contributor of cryptocurrency content and an active member of the cryptocurrency community as a whole. We are also a full-service cryptocurrency business, offering numerous licensed and regulatory-compliant services to our users.” The letter further states:

Bitcoin.com is also an active political voice within the cryptocurrency community. Our content often features our unique perspectives and opinions on the state of the cryptocurrency market. Unfortunately, we believe that due to our political activism we have been unfairly “brigaded” by political opponents who have abused the YouTube reporting mechanism to bring down our channel. We are seeking an immediate appeal of this issue.

Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com's Official Channel After Suspension
There are a number of decentralized Youtube alternatives that people can test and leverage today.

Youtube has been manipulating narratives and censoring free speech for a long time now, and many observers are starting to realize this trend. The firm is a private company and it is allowed to do as it pleases, however, those who dislike censorship, centralization issues, and the banning of channels that haven’t violated anything, will most definitely migrate to better platforms in time. The methods of censorship Youtube is leveraging will only ruin the firm’s reputation going forward, until it becomes “the Myspace of video-sharing platforms.” Right now, people can start using Lbry, Dtube, and Bitchute and the myriad of other platforms that decentralize social media and video sharing applications. The tools are here, the world must be informed of the choices.

Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com’s Official Channel and Notes the Account Is Not in Violation of the Platform’s Terms of Service

On June 15, 2020, Youtube has reinstated the official Bitcoin.com account and explained that our channel is “not in violation of our Terms of Service.”

“As such, we have unsuspended your account. This means your account is once again active and operational,” the Youtube account notification letter reads. It’s great news that Youtube has found an error when they had banned our account, but it unfortunate that many content creators have to deal with such hassles.

Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com's Official Channel After Suspension
The letter from Youtube that reinstates Bitcoin.com’s official channel.

Financial censorship and monetary manipulation are exactly why cryptocurrencies have thrived and in time decentralized solutions will eclipse many traditional platforms we all use today. Social media, video sharing, news reports, gaming, agriculture, healthcare, accounting, and literally every concept under the sun will be slowly transformed by Satoshi’s wonderful invention. Unfortunately, censorship tactics like Youtube’s methods are all too common, but provide people with a spark of energy to gravitate toward decentralized and honest platforms and mediums.

What do you think about Youtube banning the official Bitcoin.com channel? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments below.

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Filed Under: banning, bitchute, Bitcoin.com, Censored Account, Censored Channel, Centralized, COVID-19, Decentralized, Dlive, Dtube, English, Google, Lbry, Lbry.tv, News, News Bitcoin, Politics, Reinstated Account, Reinstated Channel, Riots, Roger Ver, Social Media, suspension, Video-Sharing, YouTube, Youtube Replacements

Bitcoin.com’s Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube’s Blatant Censorship and Propaganda

18/05/2020 by Idelto Editor

Bitcoin.com's Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube's Blatant Censorship and Propaganda

During the last few years, the Google-owned Youtube platform has been accused of massive censorship and in the last three months, the video streaming business resembles the Ministry of Propaganda, more than an online video-sharing platform. This week Bitcoin.com was also censored for sharing a video about our bitcoin mining pool. Bitcoin.com’s Youtube account was given one strike for allegedly “violating community guidelines.”

Youtube Took Part in Historic Amounts of Censorship During the Covid-19 Outbreak – People Will Not Forgive and Forget the Firm’s Transgressions

When the online video-sharing platform Youtube was first released in February 2005, it was a community of people sharing ideas with very little censorship and moderation. Nowadays, Youtube is under the ownership of Google, and the firm’s CEO Susan Wojcicki has been outspoken about removing videos. Weeks ago, Wojcicki told CNN that any videos that went against the WHO narrative in regards to the Covid-19 outbreak would be removed.

Last year, Youtube de-platformed a myriad of ‘alt-right’ and so-called ‘conspiracy’ groups and removed these channels from the video streaming site. Youtube also started harassing cryptocurrency content creators and Youtubers who operated channels that discussed bitcoin and other digital assets. During the holiday season in 2019, Youtube officials purged a massive number of cryptocurrency video channels for very little reasoning. The company typically just tells the person that the channel had “violated community guidelines.”

Bitcoin.com's Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube's Blatant Censorship and Propaganda

Prior to Bitcoin.com’s recent video removal and strike, Wojcicki’s words came to fruition as her company banned many videos that spoke out against the WHO’s narrative when it came to an oppositional narrative toward ‘official’ coronavirus data. Youtube and Wojcicki took it upon themselves to shelter the public from an opposite narrative that claims herd immunity works and the fatality rate for Covid-19 was extremely over-exaggerated.

Bitcoin.com's Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube's Blatant Censorship and Propaganda
California Dr. Daniel W. Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi had their video removed after it gained 5 million views. Erickson’s statements suggested that the lockdowns were unnecessary for a virus that has a 99% survival rate and that so-called experts like Dr. Fauci were disregarding basic herd immunity science.

We now know that the proof is right in front of our faces and many respected scientific think tanks and epidemiologists have told the public that the lockdowns were very irrational. Despite the proof, Youtube has banned a number of videos that go against the ongoing fear-mongering narrative. When a video was posted on Youtube that featured Dr. Daniel W. Erickson and Dr. Artin Massihi from California, the video got 5 million views before it was removed. Youtube’s excuse was:

We quickly remove flagged content that violate [sic] our Community Guidelines, including content that explicitly disputes the efficacy of local health authority recommended guidance on social distancing that may lead others to act against that guidance.

Youtube also banned a video called “Plandemic,” which featured Dr. Judy Mikovits soon after it was published on the online video sharing platform. Youtube, however, does allow videos that rebut Judy Mikovits, Daniel W. Erickson, and Dr. Artin Massihi’s narratives. The company has no issues allowing rebuttals that stay on course with the fear-mongering narrative.

Bitcoin.com's Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube's Blatant Censorship and Propaganda
Youtube removed a video called “Plandemic” which featured Doctor Judy Mikovits. Mainstream media slandered Mikovits and she explained this week she is willing to testify in Congress about her perspective that goes against the current MSM narrative.

But any dissenting views against the lockdowns, stay-at-home orders, and social distancing continued to be removed to this day. The former head of biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design at Rockefeller University, Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, recently told the public that Youtube had banned his video that went against the lockdown, and over-reaction narrative after it gathered more than 1.3 million views. Dr. Andrew Kaufman’s videos were also removed, when he spoke out against the stay-at-home narrative and the data spread by people like the epidemiologist Neil Ferguson.

Bitcoin.com's Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube's Blatant Censorship and Propaganda
Youtube has banned videos from Dr. Andrew Kaufman, and the former head of biostatistics, epidemiology, and research design at Rockefeller University, Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski.

Youtube Bans a Video About Bitcoin.com’s Mining Pool

Now Youtube has banned one of Bitcoin.com’s videos for sharing information about our mining pool. The video removal was based on the company’s “sale of regulated goods” policy and the video allegedly went against “community guidelines.” The Bitcoin.com account was given a single strike, which gives the account a one week probation period. Two to three strikes could lead to far worse restrictions against the Bitcoin.com account that merely shares information and resources about cryptocurrency solutions. Bitcoin.com’s CEO Mate Tokay has spoken out against the Youtube censorship in a tweet letting the company and Wojcicki know they have been immoral.

Bitcoin.com's Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube's Blatant Censorship and Propaganda
This week, Youtube banned one of Bitcoin.com’s videos about bitcoin mining. Youtube’s censorship and propaganda these past few months have been irrational and illogical. “Crypto is the future and if you think censoring Bitcoin.com will do any good you are delusional,” tweeted Bitcoin.com’s CEO Mate Tokay. “Myspace used to dominate and look at what happened to them,” he added.

History shows that censorship has produced some manipulated realities and it has furthered evil time and time again. Youtube is a private company and it can do whatever it wants, but the censorship still speaks volumes on the company’s tethered relationship with the status quo. There’s a reason why cryptocurrency videos are removed and it is because it goes against Youtube’s financial masters. The reason why Youtube bans certain groups is because those groups gain grass-roots attention and make people think critically.

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Youtube Wants to Ban Videos That Promote Critical Thinkers

Youtube has banned videos that go against the Covid-19 narrative as well, because people started realizing that a virus with a 99% survival rate isn’t as horrible as we all thought. Concrete evidence shows that the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders did absolutely nothing, even though Youtube continues to scream the less-powerful Covid-19 mantras. “Staying at home saves lives,” “We’re all in this together,” “Flatten the curve,” and other propaganda slogans are still aired on nearly every ad published on Youtube today.

Censorship and propaganda techniques paint a clear perspective of Youtube’s true colors. Censoring Bitcoin.com’s mining video bolsters the argument that Youtube does not have the best interests of global citizens in mind. If anything, people who understand Youtube’s vile acts of censorship and misinformation, should vacate the platform in great numbers and leverage a more decentralized online video sharing application like Lbry, or Bitchute. As the economic think tank Fee.org has said: “Youtube’s censorship of dissenting doctors will backfire.”

What do you think about Youtube’s censorship and propaganda techniques these last few months? Let us know in the comments below.

The post Bitcoin.com’s Mining Video Censored: The Tale of Youtube’s Blatant Censorship and Propaganda appeared first on Bitcoin News.

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