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Reporter Targeted by Fred Hutch, EU Bans Sharing RT Clips, UK Pushing State Media on YouTube · IndieNewsNow LIVE! Clips

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  SPEAKER_00: who are these people
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  SPEAKER_01: union busters are going after matt bruning i've done a couple
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  SPEAKER_01: of stories from matt bruning on the show we're going to talk about the eu
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  SPEAKER_01: and their authoritarian the authoritarianism ramp up to the point
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  SPEAKER_01: where it's now going to be a crime to repost an rt uh
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  SPEAKER_01: Tweet in the EU yes the UK further ramping up their authoritarianism over YouTube
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  SPEAKER_01: to prioritize BBC and corporate news there and then a little bit
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  SPEAKER_01: about Andy Burnham who's the new Prime Minister taking over for Keir Starmer
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  SPEAKER_01: who resigned
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  SPEAKER_01: who stepped down as the labor leader and the prime minister so
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  SPEAKER_01: the first one again this and Natalie I think you're going to want
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  SPEAKER_01: to read this one this is about Fred Hutch
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  SPEAKER_01: Fred Hutch being the hospital that our dear sister Shanda was treated at and this is
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  SPEAKER_01: about the nurses that are trying to unionize and organize and
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  SPEAKER_01: the Fred Hutch leadership then created a website to union bust and to try to advise
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  SPEAKER_01: the employees against unionizing and to obfuscate
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  SPEAKER_01: and misconstrue facts well Matt Bruning set up a counter website
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  SPEAKER_01: to address all of these concerns and then was served with legal action by Fred Hutch
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  SPEAKER_01: for copyright infringement because he used the Fred Hutch font and color scheme
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  SPEAKER_01: for example on the website so he changed that to accommodate them but
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  SPEAKER_01: of course they didn't really have a problem with his using the logo they had
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  SPEAKER_01: a problem with his countering all of their points
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  SPEAKER_01: so we're definitely going to want to read this one but I wanted
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  SPEAKER_01: to bring this this almost became a fourth story but I had a feeling we were going
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  SPEAKER_01: to run long so this became part of a lightning round and I encourage everyone
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  SPEAKER_01: to go read this themselves next again we're going to talk about
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  SPEAKER_00: the EU making it illegal to repost clips from RT
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  SPEAKER_01: even broadcasting the Russian network is now a crime according to
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  SPEAKER_01: the EU this is our friend the dissident one of the co-founders of INN at
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  SPEAKER_01: the 307.substack.com the EU has officially ruled that it is a criminal offense for
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  SPEAKER_01: a blogger to post clips or content from RT
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  SPEAKER_01: the Russian state broadcaster no matter what the content is or how newsworthy it is
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  SPEAKER_01: in 2023 German authorities seized the independent website Traugat Ikoroth
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  SPEAKER_01: and accused its founders of violating economic sanctions because
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  SPEAKER_01: the blog shared RT videos on three occasions in 2023 crazy
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  SPEAKER_01: now they're so rabidly against and afraid of anybody hearing what's on RT
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  SPEAKER_01: that now they're literally banning you from being able to hear what's being said
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  SPEAKER_01: and yes Wesley the EU has become a real dystopia and yes Natalie fuckers meaning
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  SPEAKER_00: the Fred Hutch people agreed
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  SPEAKER_01: so again I'm going to link this afterwards to go read the dissident at
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  SPEAKER_01: the 307.substack.com good friend and buddy of the show adding to
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  SPEAKER_01: that crazy authoritarianism the UK government now remember the UK is no longer part
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  SPEAKER_01: of the EU thanks to Brexit
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  SPEAKER_01: the UK government has decided through legislation that they are going
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  SPEAKER_01: to take control of YouTube's algorithm and notice I hate these accounts that start
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  SPEAKER_01: with breaking breaking breaking but this one actually had good information
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  SPEAKER_01: with screenshots this is pure authoritarianism
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  SPEAKER_01: what?
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  SPEAKER_01: and now Andy Burnham's government is set to control the YouTube algorithm by law
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  SPEAKER_01: stipulating that YouTube must push approved content
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  SPEAKER_01: to UK citizens. What? Yeah
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  SPEAKER_01: And independent voices who criticize the government will be
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  SPEAKER_01: pushed to the back of the queue making it harder for people
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  SPEAKER_01: to find. YouTube has acknowledged
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  SPEAKER_01: this is happening. This must
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  SPEAKER_01: must be stopped.
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  SPEAKER_01: according to youtube the uk government is running
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  SPEAKER_01: a public consultation called watch this space a new strategic direction for uk media
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  SPEAKER_01: the proposals include mandatory changes to how content is discovered
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  SPEAKER_01: on youtube this could direct audiences away from your channel
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  SPEAKER_01: as a uk creator this directly impacts your future the digital content discovery works best when
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  SPEAKER_01: driven by user choice not legal requirements this is a vital window for you to share
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  SPEAKER_01: your perspective before the consultation closes at the end of august guess who gets
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  SPEAKER_01: to decide wesley it ain't gonna be us
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  SPEAKER_01: all right
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  SPEAKER_01: the new proposed rules include
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  SPEAKER_01: a mandatory prominence regime literally this could require digital platforms like
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  SPEAKER_01: youtube to prioritize and privileged position traditional broadcasters like bbc itv
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  SPEAKER_01: and channel 4 in user interfaces
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  SPEAKER_01: and recommendation feeds potentially pushing your independent content out of sight
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  SPEAKER_01: mandating prominence
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  SPEAKER_01: to traditional institutions will impact all other independent digital creators
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  SPEAKER_01: production companies and media companies including
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  SPEAKER_01: through your content being down ranked reducing user exposure to diverse content
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  SPEAKER_01: and independent creators threat to reach and channel growth and undermining
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  SPEAKER_01: the creator audience bond youtube is against this
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  SPEAKER_01: but if the law dictates they have no choice but to either comply or exit
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  SPEAKER_01: the UK now they're moving to YouTube right so that's the second that's
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  SPEAKER_01: the third thing I wanted to talk about the fourth one is
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  SPEAKER_01: the new Prime Minister Andy Burnham in case you were hoping that things were going
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  SPEAKER_01: to be any different with a new Prime Minister think again Liam Cunningham who was
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  SPEAKER_01: on one of the Gaza flotillas or a couple of them
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  SPEAKER_01: actor I think from Game of Thrones Andy Burnham joined Labor Friends of Israel
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  SPEAKER_01: in 2015 same shit different day thank you for your attention to this matter
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  SPEAKER_01: let's
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  SPEAKER_01: and let's get a little further into it from Dr.
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  SPEAKER_01: Nina Jha Andy Burnham joined Labor Friends of Israel in 2015 said
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  SPEAKER_01: the first place he'd visit as leader would be Israel Israel
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  SPEAKER_01: refuse to call what's happening in Gaza a genocide and therefore he's caused
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  SPEAKER_01: the conservatives to call him like pro-Palestinian he also opposes
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  SPEAKER_01: the BDS movement calling it spiteful he's not pro-Palestinian he's part of
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  SPEAKER_01: the labor friends of Israel he's just not
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  SPEAKER_01: denouncing the fact that you're calling it a genocide he won't call it a genocide
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  SPEAKER_01: and he also won't say that it's not a genocide and that's got the Israelis
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  SPEAKER_01: and their supporters all pissed off
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  SPEAKER_01: yes that's right cookies this is all for narrative control they want
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  SPEAKER_01: to control what you watch they want to watch what you say they want
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  SPEAKER_01: to take away any form of anonymity to punish anyone who disagrees with
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  SPEAKER_01: the narrative absolutely 100% that's what's coming the players change the game stays
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  SPEAKER_01: the same now they're implementing positioning corporate slash state media at the top
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  SPEAKER_01: of YouTube
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  SPEAKER_01: while also outlawing opposing state media or any counter-narrative.
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  SPEAKER_01: Finally, I wanted to make mention of one other thing that there's another Twitter account
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  SPEAKER_01: that I created a long, long time ago at IndieNewsN, like Indie News Network.
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  SPEAKER_01: This immediately got shadowbanned when I first created it a long time
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  SPEAKER_01: ago and um
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  SPEAKER_01: it got suspended
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  SPEAKER_01: and I appealed I'm like we didn't do anything wrong I literally linked it to
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  SPEAKER_01: the INN gmail account and it never even tweeted so I don't know why it got suspended
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  SPEAKER_01: but now um
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  SPEAKER_01: now this account has been reinstated it's made 20 posts but if I like anything
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  SPEAKER_01: or I follow somebody like you'll notice here that I am following Fred Edward
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  SPEAKER_01: and I'm following Robbie Eager Robbie never got a notification
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  SPEAKER_01: that this account followed him nor did I and I followed it myself
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  SPEAKER_01: insane this account is already shadow banned and it's barely even gotten off
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  SPEAKER_01: the ground I was going to use this as a way
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  SPEAKER_01: to exclusively feature INN content maybe I'm not really sure
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  SPEAKER_01: but it's just another account that we have that there's no reason we should not have
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  SPEAKER_01: and have access to oh look at that and now the two followers
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  SPEAKER_01: that we had are now gone how
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  SPEAKER_01: let's see
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  SPEAKER_01: if I refresh it will there be followers let's see I don't know it's ridiculous no
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  SPEAKER_01: followers there have been at least four people
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  SPEAKER_01: that have followed this account myself, INN,
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  SPEAKER_01: Reef and Angel Rivera at least
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  SPEAKER_01: but it's showing no followers this is outright blatant censorship and suppression
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  SPEAKER_01: and I'm calling it out and showing you
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  SPEAKER_01: in real time how it's happening
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  SPEAKER_00: I guess this isn't such an awful place It's not what you want me
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