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~~Seems like someone is paying a lot of money to suppress access to information. Anyone have insight as to how to find out who specifically?~~
Doesn't necessarily need to be anyone with a lot of money, just a lot of people mass reporting things combined with automated systems.
That’s a good point. The fact that the accounts get restored means they passed human evaluation. Systems likely block the account by default, pending review.
I don't know, but it sure seems like this is extremely dangerous to our democracy.
FYI I tried to use piped, but got blocked asking me to sign in... I really wish we had a better YouTube alternative.
I've been getting this lately too. I just end up downloading the video with yt-dlp to watch it.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
extremely dangerous to our democracy
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