YouTube VS the Community

Those of us making or supporting activist videos, alternative news and documentaries have been the real Community here on YouTube. When I first joined the site videos by Alex Jones, David Icke and the Zeitgeist group were at the top of the 'most popular' list. These large videos linked to many smaller activist or free-thinking channels and this helped to make YouTube a real center of free speech online.

Things have certainly changed since then. That 'most popular' list was taken down, many controversial channels started disappearing and pro-establishment (mainstream-thinking) channels were heavily promoted. Now that we see a 'most popular' list again there are NO activist/alternative news videos on that list. This was by design.

Maybe the time has come for the YouTube Community to begin seriously considering turning our backs to the site that has very clearly turned its back to us (repeatedly.) Should we begin discussing the possibility of buying YouTube so that it can be a public website, owned by the users, or should we begin looking elsewhere?

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[Morrgore]

What alternative sites do you recommend? I hate the new bland style and if YouTube becomes the fascists we all hate and rebel against. We should all leave.

[Neurolanis]

@Morrgore Metacafe is pretty good. You get a lot more views, but not much feedback.

[IsaiasWimara]

Thanks for sharing the video. Completely true, completely honest. We are just cattle driven down to death. Living consuming for die paying. Protest and survive!

[Neurolanis]

@IsaiasWimara Like to see their faces when the cattle stands up and says NO. Can't wait.

[Publik]

Most of your friends agree with your comments or video but you don't really know them so they are not contacts. Destroying a persons friends list is a violation like rape. The less people who agree with you the better it is for Collectivism (Govt/Corporations) opposed to Individualism. Google is not your friend Google is a rapist.

[Neurolanis]

@Publik executives who are pyschologically removed from the people here.

[chiissu]

WE CAN BE HEARD!!

ht tps :// survey . google ratings . com / wix / p 4095212 . aspx

be poIite and honest or the readers wont take u as serious

i just describe the good channeI in the area where it asks what i dont Iike and what can make it better

i dont mention the previous channeI design as it wouId make me seem Iike im biased against it cuz its different and new

copi/paste this comment around other vids to spread the word!

[un4g1v3n1]

They are not ashamed of us...They are afraid of us. Their job is now to forward the status quo, and quiet the voice of dissent, and those who seek truth...

[un4g1v3n1]

Well over a year ago, all my friends lists were deleted. It took me several hours, over a period of a few days to get those lists compiled so I could share pertinent videos with those who were interested in them. Google Tube is here, You Tube is dead! PERIOD! Google must have received orders to make connecting with one another more difficult, while making all of us blend together as one bland voice the PTB are sick and tired of hearing!

[jamesjjjspike]

Good vid dude, you said it all...in my opinion we should just get up and leave! im up for suggestions, and would be willing to try afew sites until a suitable platform is found.

Maybe that way we can also rid ourselfs of the trolls and gather the truth movement in one place!

Dont forget guys WE MADE YOUTUBE and WE CAN BREAK IT!

[TheForwardGaze]

Google is growing rapidly, expanding throughout communication platforms. They're becoming a monopoly. They're public now and have to increase their profits every year. Expect to see more changes on Youtube in the future. Most Youtube users are interested in pop culture which is catered to by corporations, and this can only be done by appealing to the lowest common denominator--Katy Perry or Lady GaGa, coke or pepsi. They changed the channel page layout to speed up surfing on Youtube--ad profit.

[8Anya8]

btw buying yt sounds nice but highly unlikely as times are difficult as is and there would no doubt be infighting among all those who contributed to buying it, as if.

[8Anya8]

It's obvious the google will do what it will do, youtube just being an extenision of this.

Protesting will not accomplish anything in the same way that protesting the crooks in washington has.

I noticed that they have placed former friends who we the users deleted as friends due to the fact that many of them were not really friends.

We should all agree to go to another site which over time will become as big as yt has, due to US, the users

[Peaceandwellness]

@Neurolanis you dont like the CEOS billion dollar idea to change youtube? Its not your tube. It is their and they have the right to do what they want. If you want to post and make them rich, folly on you eh? God gave you a brain, so dont get butt hurt