A “China Uncensored” YouTube episode with guests serpentza and laowhy86 is about apparent YouTube censorship (“YouTube Doesn’t Want Us Talking About China,” March 5, 2025).
If YouTube is censoring, Google is censoring; YouTube is owned by Google.
Somewhat of a conspiracy
“What we’re dealing with here is somewhat of a conspiracy,” the guests say. “But it’s the kind of conspiracy that is actually real. Something has been affecting all [major YouTube] channels that are critical of the CCP…and it happened all at the same time. And it’s a bit too coincidental to just brush aside [and say] oh, you know, that’s just the algorithm.”
The drop-off in traffic to anti-CCP channels, which happened right after the recent election, is also too steep, sudden, and across-the-board to have been caused only by complaints submitted by gangs of Little Pink censors on the net.
These online pro-CCP troublemakers doubtless exist and do their best to get channels, videos, and posts critical of the Chinese Communist Party blocked or shut down. But the gangs also existed before the election. And Google says it has a hundred sophisticated algorithms at work to counteract bad actors who try to skew search results and the like on the Internet.
The “China Uncensored” guests, serpentza and laowhy86, noticed drops of about 72 percent and 67 percent in their traffic; and, as we reported in an earlier StoptheCCP.org post, showed that they could recover much of their traffic for overtly anti-CCP discussion just by inserting some pro-CCP, anti-American thing in the video title.
The new episode of “China Uncensored” discussing this problem has about 97,000 views so far. Not bad. But this is one of the anti-CCP channels that is used to getting much higher numbers.
Facebook also seems to censor anti-CCP content, at least sometimes.
Facebook targets Paul Jacob post
Recently, Paul Jacob of ThisIsCommonSense.org, StoptheCCP.org, and Liberty Initiative Fund fame tried to post something on Facebook about Ukraine. His post mentioned Taiwan and included a link to a StoptheCCP.org article giving background on Taiwan.
Facebook shut down Paul’s post. Instantly. The likeliest explanation is that a Facebook policy penalizes criticism or linkage to criticism of the Chinese party-state. Facebook’s action could not have been a blind automated response to complaints about the post that no gang of Party drones had yet had a chance to make.
Paul has submitted an appeal. Facebook may get back to him…eventually. And utter some kind of murky impenetrable boilerplate about the need to take care to avoid violating some unidentifiable provision of Facebook policy. A policy that Paul can now spend all of his time for all of the rest of his life studying in order to be sensitive to every elusory, illusory nuance.
Hey, if it’s a hate crime according to the Facebook and YouTube terms of service to oppose the freedom-destroying, mass-murdering Chinese Communist Party, just say so, Meta and Google. Trumpet your abject and willing submission to totalitarian evil plainly and unequivocally.
Also see:
China Uncensored: YouTube video: “YouTube Doesn’t Want Us Talking About China”
The Hill: “Why is YouTube boosting anti-US, pro-Chinese communist propaganda?”
