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A DOCUMENTARY FEATURING mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.

YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.

The move came in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 92 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I feel like aiding war criminals in deleting evidence should get your company destroyed.

Maybe not all of Alphabet unless we can prove this was an initiative started from the top, but Youtube should be diassembled for one-sidedly purging evidence. Hopefully, those accounts kept offline copies.

[–] cley_faye@lemmy.world 38 points 6 days ago

Nothing, no matter how bad, evil, terrible, treasonous, or ihumane, will destroy youtube. Except if they fail to honor a C&D from Disney.

[–] HurricaneLiz@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I moved to NewPipe - no ads, and you can import your yt playlists and subscriptions so you don't have to start from scratch. Plus it plays in the background and if the phone screen is off

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

It's still youtube though. The videos are still being hosted by yt

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago

NewPipe is fantastic and I encourage everyone to use it if they can, but I can't really see how it's related to the topic.

[–] M137@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

The major obstacle for me is recommend videos as I almost exclusively use that and youtube knows what to show me (good factual science channels, nothing with AI used at all, gaming and tech news, essays and documentaries etc.) and no other app than the official youtube one does that as far as I'm aware. (I use ReVanced though). I've really tried to jump over to newpipe and grayjay but I miss so much and never discover any new channels through them.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Until next year when "sideloading" dies, and we're back to square one.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There will be workarounds. They are fucking stupid.

[–] oopsgodisdeadmybad@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'd rather be surprised by that then assume that will be a thing and then be disappointed.

I plan on mostly degoogling and getting lineage or Graphene anyway, but I'm juggling several timelines while I decide how and when to proceed.

Same thing. I want a phone that can install grapheneOS.

[–] Cavemanfreak@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago

Didn't know about the subscriptions and playlists. This will probably make me try it.

I got newpipe and pipepipe for my phone and freetube for my desktop/laptop.