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The Richie Allen Show
Howya friends. Little bit of news. I've a couple of mates who work for
Google. They both must remain anonymous of course. They drip feed me bits
of information from time to time. Around four years ago, one of them told
me that the demonetisation of alternative news channels would become
standard. He was right as I learned when my original YouTube channel,
which had nearly 100,000 subscribers, was deleted for no reason, three
years ago.
I heard from him this morning. He told me two things. He said that when
the covid vaccine is ready, or shortly before then, Google/YouTube is
planning to take down thousands of channels that have traditionally hosted
open discussion around vaccine safety. They will do this he said, in
tandem with Facebook and Twitter. According to him, discussions between
all three have already taken place. He reckons it'll be the biggest
culling to date, of content creators and independent
vloggers/commentators.
While this may be unsurprising, it is important news and I trust him
implicitly. He also said that it is his belief (and I've said as much
myself) that Russian interference claims are nothing but a smokescreen for
mass censorship. They (the royal they), know damn well that the Russians
are not responsible for spreading anti-vaccine information online,
pro-Brexit propaganda or information about 5G. They KNOW he said, that
these initiatives are grassroots organisations, set up by genuinely
concerned citizens, but that the easiest way to legislate for them and
ultimately to censor them, is to blame Russia. Problem Reaction Solution.
He's right. Again I have said as much many times.
Last year, Professor Julian Petley, one of the UK's finest journalists and
teachers, told me before an interview that he was worried about me. He'd
been attending journalist conferences and one or two conferences on fake
news. Julian is an unswerving proponent of free speech. He said my name
was coming up a lot and that there may be some movement against me or the
show. When I told him that I wasn't working for anyone and was
broadcasting from a home studio rather than a radio station, he was
somewhat relieved, but nonetheless told me to watch my back.
This morning, my Google mate said that The RA Show is on a shortlist of
programmes to not only be removed from YouTube (which I don't care about
at all), but also to be removed from Google search results too. He said
the RA show replacement channel, which has 31,000 subs, has in reality
many more, but they're not being counted. Worse still he said, the viewing
numbers are fixed so that less than one in ten views are shown. The point
of this he went on, is to dissuade people from watching, people apparently
being more inclined to watch content that's showing hundreds of thousands
of views.
Now I couldn't give a fiddlers about YT viewing figures or subscribers as
you well know. The bulk of my audience listens live as it is a live radio
show, or they grab the podcast from iTunes, Spotify, Podomatic etc. And
viewing/listening numbers say nothing about the quality of a show in any
case, but it's important to note this, cos they ain't just doing it to me.
Asked if there's any concern among his fellow employees about what is
happening, my mate said no. Or at least nobody has said anything. Maybe
they are like him, worried about the prospect of losing a tech job, being
labelled a troublemaker and struggling to get another one. Share this
widely as your favourite Youtubers need to know that this mass cull is
coming to coincide with the arrival of the covid-vaccine, so that they can
back up their videos, something which they should be doing, but many
don't. Anyhow, thanks for reading. I'm on air at 5. Loads to do. Speak
later.
