Preston Byrne says Google should threaten to close its sole UK data center to stop creator-downranking rules

@s8mb This doesn't sound crazy at all - it was Britain that first pioneered YouTube censorship. This is just ("just" as though this isn't all incredibly sinister and unjust) taking it one step further.

Google has exactly one data center in the UK.

All it has to do is threaten to close it and pull out its personnel. That is the answer to foreign censorship, it is the only answer, and the longer Big Tech ignores the option the more cancerous foreign regulation will become.

@s8mb @danwilliamsphil Sorry, but this is a good thing. At least in the USA, the era of 3 major networks all offering similar news content held our culture together.

We could have some more answers if Congress gets involved and creates statutory protections for American applications served on a global basis.

Until then, though, Big Tech is paralyzed by institutional inertia. It is time to buck up and fight.

@s8mb only solution is for all of us to move to open source software

There are ways to address those risks. Ultimately Big Tech is falling for the same trick the British people did, letting the UK take an inch at a time/boil the frog. At some point the line in the sand must be drawn.

@prestonjbyrne Just wait for the EU and the rest of the Anglosphere to make their announcements in the coming days. This a globally coordinated attack on free speech from the Western communists.

@s8mb What's more sinister is this is two goals.

Firstly, the obvious censorship/propaganda aim of pushing only the narratives they want to see and hiding dissenting voices.

Also creating the pretext to make you pay for YouTube, to fund the BBC and any other state mouthpieces.

@s8mb I suppose they’d also make those accounts unblock-able.

@s8mb Put aside the effrontery of it, this is classic current Yookay govt belief that you can legislate your way out of a crisis. As if people don’t already have preferences they’ll stick to and as if they won’t find what you don’t want them to

@Arbitrary_user @s8mb @danwilliamsphil And propagandised you to an extent you don't seem to realise.

@prestonjbyrne Google has some ad revenue from the UK, though.

I'd go after the bank account, not the servers.

@prestonjbyrne Ah, I assumed there'd be more than that

@Arbitrary_user @s8mb @danwilliamsphil Many things about the past were better. Life was better before cell-phones, before the internet, heck, it would even be better if tv and radio had never been invented. But to compel society to return to this would require a level of tyranny that we simply cannot accept.

@Arbitrary_user @s8mb @danwilliamsphil “Govern me harder daddy” -you

@s8mb Anyone with a YouTube channel should have a @rumblevideo channel also.

Especially if you do political content.

@Arbitrary_user @s8mb @danwilliamsphil You're the kind of person that WANTS to live in Plato's Cave.

@s8mb Becoming more of a police state every day.

Just imagine all the arrests and crimes going on we don't know about.

@s8mb On line questionnaire at bottom of Doc list. Chubby Lisa Nandos wouldn't want X types replying......https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/watch-this-space-a-new-strategic-direction-for-uk-media-green-paper-and-public-consultation

@s8mb This is the language of every totalitarian regime ever: Dear Leaders, and compassionate indefinite non-volitional re-education facilities.