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The Owen Jones Podcast

Novara Media DELETED By YouTube

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In an utterly baffling and disturbing turn of events, Novara Media - the biggest left media outlet in Britain - was summarily deleted from YouTube without warning - and then only reinstated after mass uproar. What the hell is going on - and what does this say about the stranglehold of tech giants over our democracy? Novara's Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker join us live.


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0:00.0

What the... I'm not going to swear, they're going to give YouTube an excuse to just press

0:12.1

that big old red delete button, do I? Oh my word! Wow, well quite a sensational development,

0:19.2

not a good way in the left media ecosystem when our conrogues and arms Navara this morning

0:26.2

found that their entire YouTube channel without any buildup, without any warning was just

0:32.2

summarily deleted. God, poof gone, disappeared vanished. No explanation of any meaningful description.

0:39.4

Now this is pretty alarming. Now after uproar it should be said they are back for those wondering,

0:45.8

Navara are back in business baby, but only because of a mass uproar which I should say was not

0:51.4

just confined to the left because anyone with any sense who cares about media, independent media

1:00.2

in this country and abroad and doesn't want tech companies arbitrarily just deciding to just

1:06.0

switch and time media organisations off without any accountability expressed their extreme discomfort.

1:12.2

Now I'm not going to now talk much longer just to say normally I tell people when they're watching

1:17.2

on the face on Facebook, because obviously this is what goes on Facebook as well, to hit the YouTube

1:21.0

link. Some of you might feel reluctant to do that now, but obviously it's quite helpful for first

1:26.0

to hold YouTube to account because that's what we're going to be talking about. What does this

1:30.1

mean? The lessons, the disturbing lessons that have to be extracted from this, the big disturbing

1:37.4

questions about media freedom that this raises. So it's helpful to have that on YouTube, so

1:43.4

do click on the YouTube link, press like, that gets the algorithm going, some more people on YouTube

1:47.8

will watch us critiquing the YouTube system and model, and do press subscribe, and when you're done

1:54.3

after all this, of course, go and subscribe to Navara Media, who are back. And do you support

1:59.7

obviously left media by, in our case, on Patreon, to do our documentaries on YouTube before we

2:05.1

shut down and use Super Chat to put questions to our tea belly, yes? So now I'm just going to bring

2:10.1

in, because I can see there here, the wonderful, incredible Ash Sarkar and Michael Walker, who are

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