Dave (“DC”) Martin, YouTube’s Complete Corruption Revealed
Dave (“DC”) Martin
In July of last year, we published an article entitled, “YouTube Censorship Really Hits Home.” In
that article, we told of our discovery that some of our song parodies
had been taken down from YouTube. I had collaborated first with the
Cheverly Brothers to set four political parodies of Everly
Brothers’
songs to music and then with Gary King, the video maker for Jim Fetzer,
to make them into videos. Those videos turned out to be collateral
damage in the taking down of Fetzer’s video channel by YouTube.
Something good came out of the experience,
though. Fetzer, as described in the article, had turned to the
independent video platform, 153News, to carry his video channel. King
had used his own software to produce his Cheverly Brothers videos, so it
was a relatively easy matter for him to put them up at 153News. If you
want to find those videos at 153 News now, just go to the bottom of the
pages, respectively, for Drones, You Won’t Fool Me, Bibi’s Clowns, and Devoted to Truth at my DCDave web site. The hyperlinks that used to take you to YouTube now take you to 153News.
It was a close call, and I have to admit
that I felt some degree of distress that the effort that had gone into
making those videos could have turned out to be all for naught. Then I
began to think of the potential danger faced by the videos that I had
done with other collaborators. Should the new standard announced by
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg be adopted by YouTube, a number of them might
at any time be deemed too “dangerous” for the tender eyes and ears of
the viewing public, and they, too, could fall to the censor’s axe. In
the case of those videos, I had no confidence that there were saved
copies that could simply be transferred to 153News after the YouTube axe
had fallen. It occurred to me that I had better hasten to get all of
them up on 153News as well as a precaution, which is what I did, with
the generous assistance of Jason Boss at 153News.
Those other videos can now be found on the DC Dave channel
of 153News. That page, unfortunately, only displays six of the 17
videos when you first call it up. If you want access to all 17, you
must click on “Videos” in the menu across the top, between “Home” and
“Playlists.”
Just recently, my fears for the fate of several of those videos have
come close to being realized. Eleven of them were made by a fellow
Southerner who advertises himself as a “redneck” and uses the screen
name of “Buelahman.” About a month ago, Wordpress, which had hosted his
web site, beat YouTube to the punch and unceremoniously, without
warning or any sort of adequate explanation, took down his colorful and
informative web site. Go to Buelahman’s Twitter page and click on the buelahman.wordpress.com supposed link that you find there and see what you get.
It was a continuation of
a Wordpress political purge that I first became aware of when they wiped
out the equally provocative and informative web site of Scott
Creighton, known as American Everyman. Now
if you want to see the great illustrations and read the comments on the
articles of mine that had been posted on Buelahman.com, where they had
been posted for a number of years up until we parted company a couple of
years ago, you’ll have to use the hit-or-miss method of the Internet
archive known as the Wayback Machine.
For the time being,
though, Buelahman’s excellent video channel is still up on YouTube. The
videos might be up there, but that is not to say that they are
completely uncensored. One will discover in the first place that they
are hard to find, sometimes even if you know the exact title. The best
example I found of that sort of censorship was “A Song for 9/11.” I
couldn’t find it even when I put the title in along with the name of the
channel, “Abuse Productions.” I could locate it only by going to the
Abuse Productions channel and scrolling laboriously down until it
eventually came up.
This is not the most egregious form of
censorship that YouTube employs, though. Now that we have 153News with
which to compare it, what we had long suspected is now obvious. YouTube
clearly lies about the number of views that “unapproved” political
videos such as these receive.
As video platforms go, tiny, obscure,
shoestring 153News probably compares to YouTube like the population of
the smallest county in the United States compares to that of the entire
country. Considering YouTube’s near monopoly on videos and the virtual
obscurity of 153News, one would expect that any video of mine that is up
on YouTube would receive many times the views that it would receive on
153News. Furthermore, each time I had a video of my work posted on
YouTube, I sent it to Rense.com, where it appeared as my weekly
submission to that very popular site. I have a column there, and
regular visitors to that site know where to find it. For a period of a
few days, my submissions also appear on Rense’s time-sensitive center
column. When I later put each video up on 153News, Rense didn’t put it
up again, since the YouTube version was still up. Consider as well, the
fact that the videos have all been up at YouTube for a much longer time
than they have been up on 153News.
So, let’s see how the announced viewership compares:
| Video | YouTube | 153News | ||
| Months | Views | Months | Views | |
| Carl Sandburg Updated | 60 | 101 | 10 | 7,117 |
| Crazy Uncle Michael | 61 | 295 | 10 | 7,003 |
| We’re the USA | 61 | 447 | 10 | 7,068 |
| A Song for 9/11 | 59 | 578 | 10 | 7,062 |
| The Federal Security Scam | 51 | 682 | 9 | 6,772 |
| Putin Never Quits | 55 | 854 | 9 | 6,875 |
| Presstitutes: A Literary Toast | 57 | 988 | 5 | 5,358 |
| When the Roll Is Called by AIPAC | 61 | 990 | 10 | 7,281 |
| So What? | 54 | 1,528 | 10 | 7,002 |
| DC Siege Decorations | 53 | 2,073 | 9 | 6,782 |
| Waxing Indignant over 9/11 Truth | 54 | 2,223 | 9 | 33,272 |
| Somebody to Bomb | 55 | 2,206 | 10 | 7,160 |
| Falling to Pieces for Israel | 59 | 3,011 | 10 | 7,556 |
| At What a Cost? | 82 | 3,635 | 10 | 8,192 |
| Interview of John Spalding | 19 | 4,241 | 9 | 6,878 |
| The Lunatic Fringe 2015 | 47 | 6,380 | 10 | 7,031 |
| Obama, the Song | 82 | 14,069 | 10 | 7,063 |
We observed the number of views on May 6
and May 7. Over that one-day period, the views on 153News increased on
an average by a little more than 40. For YouTube, the usual increase
was one. We can assume that that was the recording of my visit.
Could there be any better evidence than
these measures of accumulation and these measures of change that the
YouTube viewer counts are completely fraudulent? Just from observing the
change over one day, we can expect that by the time most people read
this article, the count given here for 153News will be considerably
below what readers will see when they visit the video sites, but the
YouTube numbers, you can be sure, will hardly have increased at all.
Our rulers, our molders of public opinion, who clearly control Google, which owns YouTube, recognize the power of the bandwagon effect over
public opinion, and whatever the reality might be, they are determined
not to let the public know that a video that conveys too much forbidden
truth has “gone viral.” One can only wonder how many viewers have
actually watched “Waxing Indignant over 9/11 Truth,” “Falling to Pieces
for Israel,” and “At What a Cost?” on YouTube. It’s for them to know
and for us never to find out.
As a final note, should we update our
comparisons of YouTube and 153News videos some months in the future, the
table could be much larger than the one you see here. The seven
political song parodies on the list above are only a small percentage of
the ones that I have written, and, God willing, I am not through
writing them. I have collected almost all that I have written so far at
my Heresy Central blog. YouTube awaits further testing and exposure, and perhaps there is a musical reputation waiting to be made.
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