A DIRE WARNING for independent content creators
We have hit another Big Tech censorship mile marker. Glenn exposes the latest attempts by Facebook, Apple, AND YouTube to soft-censor conservative media during an election year. He warns that independent content creators who believe that they can rely on Big Tech platforms will soon find out the harsh truth: If they don’t fall in line with the narratives of the global elites, they will face the consequences. For political content creators on Facebook, that day has come, as it has made shadowbanning its company policy. And for those on YouTube, Glenn exposes how a shadowy “non-profit” connected to the White House may be pressuring the company to crack down on unapproved narratives.
GLENN: I want to start with something you need to know about. You know, I feel like somebody who is just telling you the mile-markers as we go. We are hitting another mile-marker here that you really need to pay attention to. Because it is all about information.
We have been witnessing a very disturbing trend in social media lately.
The giants of social media are attempting to control the narrative and dictate what information you have access to, by punishing people like me, or perhaps people like you, for wrong think.
Now, this is a blatant assault on your freedom and my freedom of speech.
And what do you know, they’ve decided to do this, during an election year. I mean, what a coincidence.
So I have three updates for you. And the first one is actually a kind of win.
I shared last week, when my team discovered, that Apple had raided everything in my Apple podcast library, as explicit content.
That’s over 2,000 episodes of my radio program. Which I am FCC regulated. So I can’t have anything explicit on.
And also the Glenn Beck podcast.
Now, the key here is, why did Apple change the rating from clean, to explicit?
Well, my team uploads the — the episodes to the Apple podcast platform. And they have to rate it either clean or explicit.
The vast majority of my episodes fall under the clean category. But our standards are a little higher than everyone else. Every so often, a guest on my podcast will use colorful language. They’ll drop the F bomb. Occasionally. It’s happened twice.
And my team, making sure that we understand our audience, have flagged that episodes as explicit. That shouldn’t affect every episode. It should affect that episode. So we reached out to Apple for comment, and Apple got back to us right away, and claims this is due to four episodes, that we in the 2,000, have labeled explicit.
Now, Apple claimed, that we didn’t say they were explicit. I know we did.
Apple wanted me to delete those episodes to get the label removed from all the rest of the 2000 episodes. Uh-huh.
So censorship, well, I don’t know. There’s people that use content settings to avoid podcasts that are entirely based around explicit content like pornography. What Apple did was group my shows with those kinds of shows to hide all of my shows from you.
We pushed back. Yesterday, we got a notification, that Apple will remove the explicit label, within a couple of business days. We’ve got a lot going on here. So it was a big misunderstanding, as it always is. And time and time again. And I just love the fact that they — they will take a couple of days and correct this right away.
Now, this is called soft censorship.
And these attempts happen all the time.
Let me give you another example. Earlier this week, I got a notification, that Facebook is making shadow banning company policy.
Now, shadow banning, in case you don’t know, is when a social media company allows you to post all the content that you want. But then it limits the reach that the content can hit.
So it’s — well, I call it the digital ghetto. You know, they’re just rounding everybody up, that disagrees with the government. And they put them in this digital ghetto. There’s a wall around it.
So here it is. They want YouTube to limit the monetization of any content that goes against the global elite’s narrative. And if I in general, are against the global elite’s narrative, then you wouldn’t want any of my content monetized.
www.glennbeck.com/radio/dire-warning-independent-content-creators
h/t Coastie Patriot