Media Outlets Escalate WAR On Youtubers, Smear Philip Defranco As Far Right
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🗓️ 8 June 2019
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Media Outlets Escalate WAR On Youtubers, Smear Philip Defranco. The war on youtube has been dramatically escalating in the past few weeks with Philip DeFranco getting the latest hit. So far we have seen the #VoxAdpocalypse as the biggest force in taking down small and independent creators but we also saw CNET write a hit piece on gaming channels resulting in a loss of advertisers.
Now the latest story insinuates that Phil Defranco is "far right" and was part of a path to being made radical. However the story is mostly nonsense and their subject claims only to be a conservative.
Why then include Phil Defranco? In my opinion, so that far left and social justice activists can imply that Phil is a part of or associated with the far right. Even if it wasn't intended to escalate they already have implied that Phil is far right even though I'm sure that the subject of the NYT story watched The Young Turks or other large Youtubers. For Vox's Carlos Maza with Steven Crowder it was easy, he said naughty words, but Phil is a rather neutral commentator so whether intentional or not this could lay seeds for future activists to make claims about Phil and his politics.
The past few weeks should make it clear that there is an effort to destabilize youtube and target our channels and businesses.
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| 0:00.0 | The mainstream media is declaring war on YouTube and they are escalating dramatically and quickly. |
| 0:06.6 | Of course, many of you are probably familiar with the Vox ad-pocalypse. |
| 0:11.6 | Many channels got wiped out, got their monetization removed. I mean, they can't make money anymore. |
| 0:17.0 | Because of Vox. One of these channels made videos of like nature sounds. |
| 0:22.0 | Could you not? Historical channels, teachers, etc. |
| 0:24.8 | And Vox doubled down after this with a letter demanding more. |
| 0:30.4 | We saw an article from CNET where they targeted advertisers that appeared on gaming channels |
| 0:36.3 | because they felt the gamers were sometimes angry and it worked. |
| 0:41.7 | People like Jeremy Hamley reportedly lost sponsors. |
| 0:45.2 | But now the controversy is escalating because Philip DeFranco is being sort of targeted here. |
| 0:52.0 | Now, I don't want to get all conspiratorial but what you're seeing on this, on my screen right now |
| 0:56.7 | is a story from the New York Times where you can see a bunch of different YouTubers. |
| 1:00.8 | Now, I want to make sure I point out you have some intellectuals, Milton Friedman, |
| 1:06.0 | you have Jimmy Kimmel, for instance, being associated with YouTube, just YouTube right now. |
| 1:12.4 | But you'll notice Philip DeFranco. Now, why does this bother Philip DeFranco and many other |
| 1:18.2 | YouTubers and why would I consider this an attack on YouTube? Certainly, Jimmy Kimmel is resilient. |
| 1:23.3 | He's fine. Some of the other intellectuals who are not far right or alt right don't care about YouTube. |
| 1:28.5 | But what do you think happens then when you scroll down on this story? |
| 1:32.7 | As I scroll down, it says, first, Caleb Kane was a college dropout looking for direction. |
| 1:37.3 | He turned to YouTube. We scroll down and many images start to disappear. |
| 1:42.8 | Soon, he was pulled into a far right universe watching thousands of videos filled with conspiracy |
| 1:49.1 | theories, misogyny and racism. You'll notice now that only a few channels, about half of the |
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