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YouTube Censorship and the End of History
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13:10Now PlayingOn Tuesday the 26th we released a video that was eventually titled “Christopher Lasch, Paul Sweezy, and the Great RESET” but it didn’t get many clicks or views. We watched the dashboard of our youtube studio closely as the video failed to perform and then, after an hour or so, the video was removed by Youtube. It had, according to them, “violated community standards on COVID.” That is, it was thought to have disputed the recommendations of the World Health Organization, specifically related to social distancing and social isolation. We appealed this action as the video did not dispute those recommendations. To be clear it is our opinion that masks are necessary. Lockdowns are often necessary. COVID is real and very dangerous. It’s much worse than the flu. However, despite the fact that anyone who watched the video and took in the argument would see that it did not critique the World Health Organization nor attempt to dispute their guidelines, our appeal of the decision to remove the video was rejected.
This video explores how the climate of censorship online relates to Daniel Bell's declaration of the end of ideology and/or Fukuyama's declaration of the End of History. The fact-checking pseudo neutrality of Google, Facebook, Twitter, and the rest are symptoms of the acceptance of the end of history. It is symptomatic of the left's move from socialism to statist progressivism.
If you're interested in seeing the video that was taken down last week you can find it in a public post on our Patreon page.
The script for this video is available for free on Substack. Going forward all of the scripts for our Critical Cuts videos will be posted on Substack and made available for free.
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