You tube bans Al Jazeera !

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@Geri that's weird, you can watch it here https://www.youtube.com/@aljazeeraenglish/streams

[max@poliverso.org]

@Geri

Does this mean that capitalism is about making money and not defending rights?

Wow, who would have ever thought...

[hpiirai@piipitin.fi]

@weezmgk @Geri

Banned only in Israel, it seems. https://network.aljazeera.net/en/press-releases/al-jazeera-denounces-youtube%E2%80%99s-submission-ban-its-broadcast-israel-and-calls

[weezmgk@mastodon.social]

@hpiirai oh... @Geri

[rightsprung@c.im]

@Geri

Time that we all ban youtube

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@Geri Wow! But isn’t that anti-semitic? As far as I know Arabic is a semitic language. 🫣

[jimedrand@fedinet.waltuh.cyou]

@Geri I guess Al-Jazeera will start to move into another approach such as using fediverse or anything else that they could.

[woo@fosstodon.org]

@Geri Not THAT free speech!

[mook@possum.city]

@Geri@mastodon.online shameful, it is only Israel at least, tho i wonder if this would also be applied to people in Gaza and the West Bank

[capnthommo@c.im]

@Geri yet another reason not to use you tube if I can possibly avoid it.

[witewulf@cyberplace.social]

@gimulnautti @Geri oh, you do not want to start that argument. Although given you're raising it at all I guess you're fully aware of how problematic it is

[tanquist@masto.ai]

@Geri
I spent a month in the VA hospital 12 years ago and was surprised to see Al Jazeera was one of the channels I could watch. I was impressed by the quality of their news reporting and other programming. It reminded me of CNN's early days before it became commercialized trash.

[nitpicking@mstdn.party]

@Geri I don't know the details, and I'm certainly not familiar with the details of the situation, but: Google (YouTube) is hardly able to ignore Israeli law, agree or disagree. They've blocked, e. g., Kurdish nationalist (and those accused of being Kurdish nationalist) organizations in Turkey before.

I am a Google-avoider, not a fan of the company at all, but they aren't above the law and shouldn't be.

[arrrg@kolektiva.social]

@Geri Holy shit. They have a reporter in the White House press pool.

The noose tightening while Chuck Schumer is busy working deals with the fashes.

[geri@mastodon.online]

@tanquist we regularly watch it xx

[mourioche@mastodon.social]

@Geri
Quelle pub ils leur font !
Pour moi, être bloqué par les fachos est un critère de qualité.

[sang_froid@electricrequiem.com]

@weezmgk@mastodon.social @Geri@mastodon.online I believe the ban is for Israel https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/al-jazeera-denounces-youtubes-compliance-with-israels-ban-on-network

[quoidian@mastodon.online]

@tanquist @Geri AJE and the English DW programmingare among my go-tos.

[geri@mastodon.online]

@sang_froid @weezmgk it literally says this in the first sentence

[musiquenow@todon.eu]

@Geri

Attack on #journalism

#AlJazeera