This is going to be an important thread. We need to talk about YouTube, and private media operations in generalThis thread was prompted by YouTube’s shadow ban of my new video, but that’s really just a minor inconvenience. The whole story involves YouTube, the DHS, and the CIA— JT Chapman (@_SecondThought) November 28, 2020
On one hand this isn’t totally surprising, I had a girlfriend who got a visit from DHS at her parent’s house, and they informed her and her family that she was on a watchlist after taking pictures near a refinery. But on the other, I’m pretty baffled by what draws the focus of the national security state. There are dozens of books and articles and videos out there about the CIA, I was just re-listening to Death is Just Around the Corner’s episodes on JFK. Why go intimidate some random YouTuber? Feels like being some poor asshole getting audited by the IRS. They just went to their database of “published criticism of the CIA online” and draw a random name.
On one hand this isn’t totally surprising, I had a girlfriend who got a visit from DHS at her parent’s house, and they informed her and her family that she was on a watchlist after taking pictures near a refinery. But on the other, I’m pretty baffled by what draws the focus of the national security state. There are dozens of books and articles and videos out there about the CIA, I was just re-listening to Death is Just Around the Corner’s episodes on JFK. Why go intimidate some random YouTuber? Feels like being some poor asshole getting audited by the IRS. They just went to their database of “published criticism of the CIA online” and draw a random name.