**You Tube, which is owned by Google, confirmed to The Intercept that it deleted the groups’ accounts as a direct result of State Department sanctions against the group after a review. The Trump administration leveled the sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes.

“Google is committed to compliance with applicable sanctions and trade compliance laws,” YouTube spokesperson Boot Bullwinkle said in a statement.**

It is high time people moved to peertube.tv.

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    11 hours ago

    All social media has been since before the final solution for the gaza ghetto.

    Including reddit, facebook, twitter, instagram, tik tok now.

    In private companies courts decided we have no rights, but the government can lean on them in secret, creating a de facto government censorship of speech.

    Same as warrantless surveillance, the government buys private data broker info without cause or warrant on everyone, does another end run around the bill of rights.

    We need clear rules we can challenge enforcrment actiond on, I would say if not settled by an appeal to be decided by a jury of users, but I am an english common law partisan like that.

    State laws could work but courts would cancel them the first time israel was criticized. And feds would pre empt.