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I apologize to any sensitive eyes that will read this.

Youtube does not moderate, they censor. A moderator is a person that sets plain, hard rules and is active and engaging with the community. A moderator first engages, then decides a course of action in real time or after a bit or research on the content or parties involved.

Censorship is when something is removed or modified without your consent or knowledge due to blanket restrictions that are vanilla, broad, or catchall.

There are little if any forums anywhere that actually moderate or even have the credentials to call themselves a "moderator" as these classes are difficult and expensive.

I love it when people or forums say they are moderated/moderators and have no credentials to the accredited schools that actually train moderators posted on their sites. Ninety nine percent of "forums" are NOT moderated, they are Censored. Youtube Censors, lets just put that to bed.

As for this strike...the current crop of politicians we have in the West are weak minded garbage. Not a single one has proven to me they have any balls to do the hard, right thing in dealing with extreme islam or belligerent communists.

Warning iran before the strike so they could move personnel away is such a flat politically cowardly move, one instigated by the United States and other bleeding heart cowards politically pressuring the military and further supporting my conclusion that if the current politicians were alive during WW2, we would all be speaking German and Japanese.

This latest Israeli strike was a flat joke. Because of the U.S. elections Israel has to tip toe. The west has some weak ass garbage for politicians.

This is my OPINION on what needs to happen in the world today. russian soldiers (small case) needs to be driven back hard into russia to it's 1991 borders and everyone around russia needs to setup nearly impassible fences, trenches, minefileds and russia needs to stay isolated until either they collapse and the world divides that garbage country up or it learns how to interact with their neighbors. Gaza needs to be wiped from Israel, it started as a refugee camp, it can start again somewhere else and terrorize some other Arab country. iran (small case) needs to have it's regime removed and let the people get a toehold and go back to what they were before islamic ideology screwed them over. All bleeding hearts need to be ignored until this is done.

I could go on a nice little rant but I do not want to be "moderated" lol.

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Why? YouTube is so random and never explains anything.

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I favor legislation that would require services like YouTube to provide more transparency and cite actual time stamps for whatever violates the terms of service or triggers the age restriction.

This, IMHO, was particularly egregious. There was less violence in this video than in a commercial for the nightly news.

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The nightly news shows video of wars and stories about them and their advertisers don't seem to mind. I don't understand why YouTube is so quick to demonetize you (unless they want to avoid sharing the revenue with you whenever possible).

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Your $5 price helps me stay onboard... I'm in the mid to low end of a 5 figure income and I've had to cancel a few subs here and on other platforms simply for budgetary reasons... So I really do appreciate it...

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Oct 28·edited Oct 28

You’re welcome. It seems IDF is laying the foundation for more strikes, since they focused on taking out S300s?

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The Administration did not let the Israelis attack nukes or political sites so this is the best they could do. If they did take out all the s300s then all options are open after the elections. The fact that Iran did not do anything also implies that they are waiting for November 6th.

As an aside, the fact that the Israelis could take out all the Iranian air defense with their limited refueling and intelligence capabilities means that the US could have erased the Iranians without much effort,

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That is bs an analysis of how something happened should never be censored.

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WTF is wrong with all of the Puritan schoolmarm bed-wetting moderators over at YouTube? Have they consulted a dictionary recently? Meanwhile moderation is a lost art over at twitter (don't call it X, it only encourages him).

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I suspect they are far from puritans. It seems the heavy handedness cuts one way.

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Perhaps Quakers would have been a better adjective than Puritan.

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I think the explanation of why you get demonetized is pretty simple: you most likely have build up enough enemies to your clear and common sense approach and explanations in your videos. Thus, triggering those egocentric individuals to report your videos, at which point, YouTube just demonetizes it.

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Perhaps Israel is prepping the battlefield for a Second / Third strike; Perhaps not as Sexy as massive explosions and fire footage but very necessary for follow on strikes. ~M

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Hey Ryan...I’ve followed you on You Tube for a while now, but given that You Tube is penalizing you, I figured it was time to pay up to help you. Thanks for all you do. Regards! JFN

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YT rules are insane.

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Or move to Pepper Box

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Just like everyone else. I'm struggling with the why.

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how do you justify buying a Tesla when they’re ridden with data mining issues like all other modern cars just curious Ryan.

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I’m sure you’re right about the F-16s and F-15s. They move a bunch of those around to distract the media and maybe a few spies. While actual strike package slips away from a remote site, as part of preplanning.

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What in the heck was YouTube concerned about here? This seems arbitrary. But is it, is there more her than meets the eye?

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