03-02-2018, 01:19 PM
stanc Wrote:I was curious about this purported "lockout" so I did a bit of searching on YouTube. From what I was able to gather, contrary to the claim in the OP, Dennis Prager has not been locked out of YouTube.
It appears that the issue is only with a small percentage of videos posted by PragerU ("the blog that thinks it's a university," as another YouTube poster calls it), and those videos are actually in a "restricted" category meant to protect minors from some types of content, but which -- like the rest of PragerU videos -- are apparently still freely available to adult viewers.
Yep.
Some folks have reported individual videos as being reclassified as restricted. (I believe Steven Crowder had this issue?) Some are up in arms that videos explaining the workings of US gov't have been "restricted" to 'adult only' viewing.
I think YouTube/Google and Facebook are going to find that trusting politically motivated individuals and organizations like the SPLC to judge the posts, videos and accounts will cause them more headache than benefit.