Free Speech Shut Down On You-Tube

[Albert Doyle]

Recently Google+ took over You-Tube and shut down the comments section. In order to function on the You-Tube video site you are now forced to sign-on to the Google+ social media site. The site prompts you to use your real name instead of the common monikers most users use. In fact when You-Tube first formed it asked users to not use their real name. The result is the comments section has nearly been shut down. Instead of the excellent level of free speech previously seen in the comments sections of videos you now see a vapid teenage girl social media website level of conversation. I saw a poster say this was done because the number one complaint about You-Tube was the "trolls" abusing the comments section. I take that in the same light as the Chinese and American governments saying 'subversives' were disrupting society. You know, like those trouble-makers who think CIA killed JFK.

After I was forced to make a Google+ account I did not want or need I have been unable to comment on You-Tube even though I created a Google+ account. When I try to comment I get a gold framed box that says "opening" and never opens. Both You-Tube and Google provide no customer support for problems like this. You literally cannot contact them. Even though You-Tube and Google are private enterprizes I'm pretty sure they violated some kind of consumer protection law by doing this. I have no doubt there's some government tricky business behind this because You-Tube was becoming a good outlet for free speech and exposure of government corruption. It wasn't controllable by the usual Mockingbird means and was probably becoming a threat to the national security surveillance state. Some people say Google did it in order to get quick numbers for advertizing clout, however the cold hand of intel is obvious with this one.

Time to flush them down the toilet and form a new You-Tube. You are the product and you've just been sold.

[Tracy Riddle]

Google is rapidly swallowing up the internet. Practically every site has to link to Google (and Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), plus Google Ads. One day Google was having server troubles or something, and I could hardly get on any other website because of it.

[Albert Doyle]

Once you become a billion dollar Wall Street entity intel piggy-backs its agenda and methods on to it.

[David Guyatt]

Google is rapidly swallowing up the internet. Practically every site has to link to Google (and Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), plus Google Ads. One day Google was having server troubles or something, and I could hardly get on any other website because of it.

It should come as no surprise that Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google is a regular participant at the Bilderberg Conferrences.

I say this only because I felt, in view of Tracy's comments above, that it was quite likely that re-colonising the internet for the corporate and government symbiosis that we call "democracy", must have been a subject of recent Bilderberg discussions. It is a subject / concern that would, in my understanding of their objectives, be right up their street.

And sure enough, a few searches on Google turns up the fact that Schmidt is a regular. But if Global Research is to be believed, it is far worse than that. They suggest that Google and Bilderberg are merging into a sort of "Google-Berg". And what we see emerging is the continuing rollback of genuine participatory democracy and the re-engineering of feudalism or, more accurately I suspect, a more modern variant of manorial serfdom.

But recent the article below and judge for yourselves.

June 6-9: Bilderberg Meeting behind Closed Doors. On the Agenda: Domestic Spying, Diffusing Social Protests, War on Syria and Iran

By Stephen Lendman
Global Research, June 05, 2013

Theme: Global Economy, US NATO War Agenda

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Its four-day meeting occurs annually. It's a rite of spring. British political economist Will Hutton calls the group the "high priests of globalization."
Powerful movers and shakers have their own agenda.They discuss key issues.
They do it year round. Once annually they meet face-to-face. They plot strategy to exploit the world's riches. They want them for themselves.
They try to keep meeting dates, locations, and issues to be discussed secret. Word gets out. It's official. Britain's five-star Grove Hotel is this year's venue. It's a Hertfordshire, England hotel resort. It calls itself "London's cosmopolitan country estate."
It's 18 miles from London. It's 30 minutes from Heathrow Airport. It's ideal for secluded meetings. Great pains are taken to keep journalists, activists, and other uninvited guests away.
On May 13, Infowars reporters Paul Joseph Watson and Jon Scobie visited the Grove Hotel. They claim to have "groundbraking" information.
Google's CEO Eric Schmidt is a regular Bilderberg attendee. Watson and Scobie said his company is "merging" with Bilderberg.
"Google's annual Zeitgeist conference, which has been based at the Grove since 2007, immediately precedes the Bilderberg Group conference by a matter of days."

"Backed up by prior research, we were able to confirm in conversations with hotel managers and others that the Grove is now a central base for Google's agenda to control the global political and technological landscape."

Bilderberg's "being recast as Google-Berg' partly because of efforts on behalf of activists to tear away the veil of Bilderberg's much cherished secrecy, and partly as a means of re-branding authoritarian, undemocratic secret gatherings of elites as trendy, liberal, feel-good philanthropic-style forums like Google Zeitgeist and TED."
In May 2012, London's Telegraph headlined "Google invites the best and brightest into its Big Tent."
It's Google's annual Zeitgeist conference. The Telegraph compared it to annual Davos World Economic Forum meetings. Major global figures participate in both.
Eric Schmidt thinks "privacy is a relic of the past," said Infowars. He "plans to turn Google into the ultimate Big Brother."
He and Bilderberg members share a common agenda. In part, it reflects a "collectivist, permanently networked world (without) individuality and privacy."
Bilderberg's grand design is one-world government comprised of rulers and serfs. It wants total unchallenged global control.
Infowars said its "inside source" listed the following June issues for discussion:

• destroying Iran's nuclear facilities within three years;
  

• prolonging war on Syria by arming anti-Assad elements;
  

• the threat of a global pandemic;
  

• controlling 3D printing;
  

• Internet control through "cyber resilience;"
  

• establishing a ministry of truth; Orwell explained its mission and more, saying:
  

"The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation."
"These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink."

Other Bilderberg topics include:

• smart cities for mass surveillance;
  

• diffusing austerity induced social protests;
  

• preventing Britain from leaving the EU;
  

• propping up the euro to keep the Eurozone intact;
  

• minimal 2013 economic growth;
  

• increasing central bank power;
  

• transferring more wealth from ordinary people to corporations and super-rich elites; and
  

• preventing a growing credit bubble from popping.
  

In 2007, Privacy International's "Race to the Bottom" report addressed privacy rankings of Internet service companies. A previous article discussed its comments on Google, saying:

"….throughout our research we have found numerous deficiencies and hostilities in Google's approach to privacy that go well beyond those of other organizations."

It's "an endemic threat to privacy. This is in part due to the diversity and specificity of Google's product range and the ability of the company to share extracted data between these tools, and in part due to Google's market dominance and the sheer size of its user base."

"Its aggressive use of invasive or potentially invasive technologies and techniques" is unmatched.

It's able to "deep drill into the minutiae of a user's life and lifestyle choices." It has no qualms about doing it irresponsibly.
It retains volumes user information. No limitations are placed on its subsequent use or disclosure. Users aren't able to delete or withdraw it.
It retains all "search strings and associated IP-addresses and time stamps for at least 18 to 24 months, and does not provide users with an expungement option."
It has other personal information on hobbies, employment, addresses, phone numbers, and more. It retains it after users delete their profiles.
It "collects all search results entered through Google Toolbar, and identifies all Google Toolbar users with a unique cookie that allows Google to track the user's web movements."
Information is retained indefinitely. It provides a permanent record. Doing so spurns OECD Privacy Guidelines and EU data protection law provisions.
Users can't edit or delete records and information. They can't access log information generated through various Google services, such as Google Maps, Video, Talk, Reader, or Blogger.
In 2004, Google also acquired the CIA-linked company Keyhole, Inc. It maintains a worldwide 3-D spy-in-the-sky images database.
Its software provides a virtual fly-over and zoom-in capability. It does so within a one-foot resolution.
It's supported by In-Q-Tel. It's a venture capital CIA-funded firm. It "identif(ies) and invest(s) in companies developing cutting-edge information technologies that serve United States national security interests."
In 2003, its CEO, John Hanke, said:

"Keyhole's strategic relationship with In-Q-Tel means that the Intelligence Community can now benefit from the massive scalability and high performance of the Keyhole enterprise solution."

In 2006, former CIA clandestine services case officer, Robert Steele, said:

"I am quite positive that Google is taking money and direction from my old colleague Dr. Rick Steinheiser in the Office of Research and Development at CIA, and that Google has done at least one major prototype effort focused on foreign terrorists which produced largely worthless data."
"I think (Google is) stupid to be playing with CIA, which cannot keep a secret and is more likely to waste time and money than actually produce anything useful."

On April 29, 2009, Willem Buiter's Financial Times article headlined "Gagging on Google," saying:

"Google is to privacy and respect for intellectual property rights what the Taliban are to women's rights and civil liberties: a daunting threat that must be fought relentlessly by all those who value privacy and the right to exercise, within the limits of the law, control over the uses made by others of their intellectual property."

It should be strictly regulated, "and if necessary, broken up or put out of business." It "lays the foundations for corporate or even official Big Brotherism."
Google Street View's addition to Google Maps, "provides panoram(ic) images visible from street level in cities around the world."
"The cameras record details of residents' lives." They do so without permission. Personal privacy is violated.
It's also done through tracking cookies or "third-party persistent cookies." They assist interest-based advertising. It's known as behavioral targeting.
In the wrong hands, information can be used "to put a commercial squeeze on people, but also to extort and blackmail them."
In government hands, it enhances "a pretty effective and very nasty police state."
Can Google be trusted to use this information responsibly? "Of course not." It's a business run by "amoral capitalists." It seeks profits by any means.
Google and other Internet search engines "should not be trusted because they cannot be trusted." Because of its size and dominance, Google's "the new evil empire of the internet." It's a menacing "Leviathan."
If true, partnering (merging) with Bilderberg enhances the threat. Institutionalized spying endangers everyone. Today's technology exceeds the worst of what Orwell imagined.
Big Brother isn't fiction. It's watching everyone all the time for any reason. It does so with sweeping technological effectiveness. It makes Bilderberg's ideal world more possible.
Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago. He can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net.
His new book is titled "Banker Occupation: Waging Financial War on Humanity."
http://www.claritypress.com/LendmanII.html
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From Global Research

[Albert Doyle]

Not surprising. I wish I could post Herr Schmidt's Bilderberg status in some of the protest videos on You-Tube but alas I can't comment any more. He probably hangs out and hunts human prey on the Bilderberg grounds with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales. Tracy should realize Google just bought You-Tube.

The new Windows 8 forces you to register under your real name before you can use it and then includes it on the screen and inserts it into weird places in your internet functions.

[Tracy Riddle]

Not surprising. I wish I could post Herr Schmidt's Bilderberg status in some of the protest videos on You-Tube but alas I can't comment any more. He probably hangs out and hunts human prey on the Bilderberg grounds with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales. Tracy should realize Google just bought You-Tube.

The new Windows 8 forces you to register under your real name before you can use it and then includes it on the screen and inserts it into weird places in your internet functions.

Yes, I've been on YouTube for several years and since the Google takeover they keep bugging me to change my user name to my real name. I rarely log in to YouTube anymore. Last time I did you could still choose to have your comments only posted on YouTube, not Google Plus.

[Albert Doyle]

Last time I did you could still choose to have your comments only posted on YouTube, not Google Plus.

Try it now. lol


Where are the geeks who are outraged by this and form a new video site?

[Magda Hassan]

Not surprising. I wish I could post Herr Schmidt's Bilderberg status in some of the protest videos on You-Tube but alas I can't comment any more. He probably hangs out and hunts human prey on the Bilderberg grounds with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales. Tracy should realize Google just bought You-Tube.

The new Windows 8 forces you to register under your real name before you can use it and then includes it on the screen and inserts it into weird places in your internet functions.

Yes, I've been on YouTube for several years and since the Google takeover they keep bugging me to change my user name to my real name. I rarely log in to YouTube anymore. Last time I did you could still choose to have your comments only posted on YouTube, not Google Plus.

Last time I did you could still choose to have your comments only posted on YouTube, not Google Plus.

Try it now. lol


Where are the geeks who are outraged by this and form a new video site?

People are outraged and there is a campaign to change it. Even the guy you made YouTube before it was bought by Google wont make any more comments there while it is in this state. Another video site which is much better any way is Vimeo.

[Peter Lemkin]

Not surprising. I wish I could post Herr Schmidt's Bilderberg status in some of the protest videos on You-Tube but alas I can't comment any more. He probably hangs out and hunts human prey on the Bilderberg grounds with Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales. Tracy should realize Google just bought You-Tube.

The new Windows 8 forces you to register under your real name before you can use it and then includes it on the screen and inserts it into weird places in your internet functions.

Yes, I've been on YouTube for several years and since the Google takeover they keep bugging me to change my user name to my real name. I rarely log in to YouTube anymore. Last time I did you could still choose to have your comments only posted on YouTube, not Google Plus.

The sad fact is 'they' know your real name and your real address [an much more about your life] and could, if they so chose, change your moniker to your real name. I guess soon they'll just tattoo with a laser a bar code or 2D code on the foreheads of babies when born - so when they enter any space or sit by their computer [which will soon HAVE to have a the webcam on looking at the computer operator by law] they will be properly identified and their comments, actions, searches, etc. properly matched with their biographical and political files. McGoogle is really a big part of the problem now...and increasingly so! What a sinister World we have constructed. The saddest part is that most people just have learned to accept all these indignities and theft of their privacy and rights. Big Brother really is watching you!:: Not to worry! ::willynilly::

[Albert Doyle]

Which is typical of America. Like Obama, Google sold itself as a progressive tool of the people rallying fascinating internet technology and freedom with popular support. Once they got enough people using their service they then flipped and became a predatory gargantuan company selling their user livestock as a marketing commodity.


I still can't comment on You Tube even though I unwillingly signed on to Google + as they required. I followed all the instructions and still get a gold framed comments box that says "opening" forever without ever opening. There is no You Tube support for this and when I called Google I got a long options loop that finally dumped me into a recording said "Sorry, Google doesn't offer any customer support at this time". I'm pretty sure Google has violated some kind of consumer rights law by doing this, but in this neo-America good luck at having the pro-business, Republican fascist-corrupted US government aid you in anything like this. This serves their purpose of proxy restriction of the internet.