EU censorship gone mad!

in #censorship6 years ago (edited)

Today I tried to listen to some music from youtube while driving back home after work.

Google had other plans though! When trying to play a track with no vocals, no video (only a still image), no perceivable way to be nazi propaganda, I was prevented from doing so. Probably the name of the track is to blame - it's by Suicide and is called Third Reich.

I got home and it didn't work from my home IP as well, as expected. Interestingly, it didn't even appear in the search results, however it did appear in an old playlist I had made with similar music. Actually, this playlist is what reminded me of this track and caused me to notice yet another piece of censorship. I'm not used to this kind of insidiousness - in my country journalists get killed or otherwise shut up forcefully to enforce silence and that's the way censorship works. The government is usually too retarded to get involved with the Internet noticeably, outside of enforcing online gambling rules in favor of our local mafia.

Next, I opened the Tor browser, got a German exit node and it didn't load, again - as expected. Finally, I got lucky with a Turkish exit node and listened to an otherwise nothing so special track a few times.

Here's a link to youtube:

Here's a screenshot of the track, when clicked from a playlist, as seen from a Bulgarian IP: eu censorship

The moral of the story is: google is at least very sloppy and the European Union is on a slippery slope to totalitarianism. Oh, and most importantly - using peer to peer technologies such as steemit, bitchute, bittorrent, cryptocurrencies and others to make censorship near impossible is very important not tomorrow, but today!

EDIT: fixed the youtube link

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