We Can’t Show You This on YouTube

Do you have an idea? Yeah, I want to talk about what speaking of Chinese territories being taken over by the CCP. I just have to say on this podcast you asked if we could talk about something funny Well, this is more serious than China Uncensored, don't you think so? Yes, this is very serious and I don't know if there's room for jokes only puns. More so when we're interviewing someone. That's true I mean, but when it's just the three of us and talk about how my college put on a musical production about the Kent State Massacre Yeah, that's gonna get a censored by YouTube That's you know, I'm for free speech That maybe should have been censored The musical it's cool, you know anyway, so The funny thing is that Cafe Pacific ah Apologize last week by the time you're watching this for Having an episode of Family Guy on their in-flight entertainment and not because Family Guy makes tons of politically incorrect jokes all the time well, it was actually the first episode of Family Guy and the reason is that There you know how Family Guy has all these Arbitrary cutaways to things and references to things there was a so that's only a cutaway to Peter standing next to tank man in front of the tanks in Tiananmen Square and So that was the thing that is now too sensitive for a Hong Kong airline to have On their in-flight entertainment reference of the Tiananmen Square Massacre I mean, it's it's it's funny because that show they they make fun of like every Everybody right? Like it's it's pretty like it's pretty out there. I mean the joke is that Peter's a coward who? Decided to nope out of standing up for you know, well, I think the real thing to say about this is we We can't show you the clip on YouTube because YouTube will even though it would be fair use They would they would hit us with a copyright strike on our website We will be able to show you this clip and things like it in the future This this clip is like a five second long clip or something Yeah And and they would demonetize our whole thing with a copyright strike just for showing you something that is legal To use because YouTube has no meaningful arbitration Or mediation process for this kind of thing certainly not for a channel like us who only has 2 million subscribers But anyway, so That's one thing so we're doing these special premium episodes for the website and we're able to have a lot more fun with the video edits actually because Because we don't have those times. We don't have those kinds of restrictions I mean recently we were even demonetized for showing a clip of JD Vance. Oh And it was it was like we do this all the time. We show like pull pull quotes Yeah, there's some sound bites, right? So yeah So it was a sound bite that we were talking about and the way we did it was perfectly legal within fair use law and I checked these things and it was totally legal and Yet YouTube demonetized our whole video with absolutely no recourse and it's not like They would do that to CNN who does the same thing all the time, you know? But because we're the little guy we cannot get any thing from YouTube Anyway, so So China uncensored TV. That's where you're we hope you go to watch our stuff buy a new suit One of the ones that I really had wished that I had written an episode a few years ago. That was about Essentially, I think it was about Kenny G getting in trouble. Oh, yeah China for which Kenny G is very popular in China Mm-hmm There's a song of his that gets played when like all the stores closed malls closed and things like that so Chinese people are very familiar with Kenny G and he's been touring and stuff like that and then he I think it was during the Hong Kong protests, right? Or he got in trouble for taking a photo with the Hong Kong in Hong Kong of the protesters and then He had to issue an apology. Yeah, and I had this whole joke about how there should be a super group of people of washed-up singers like David Hasselhoff and Kenny G House office not washed up. Well because he had Performed at the Berlin Wall. Yeah, and the song looking for freedom that he had That was super popular in Germany and people associate this song with the fall of the Berlin Wall I mean so I'll have performed it at the wall after it fell, but you know, it's It was amazing because when I was in Berlin There is a David Hasselhoff Museum in Berlin and also museum on the plan It's a small news, but they're also in like the Berlin Wall Museum there's photos of David Hasselhoff This is the signed photos of David Hasselhoff singing at the Berlin Wall and it's an amazing clip because he's wearing this jacket that is Piano keys and it lights up And I was like, I really wanted to be able to use this clip for the episode But I couldn't because we would get copyright strike Yeah, so again Well, I mean about the website ultimately we lost tons of money that whole year because of the protests that's true, yeah Yeah, that was another thing YouTube really didn't like they didn't like us talking about the Hong Kong protests a lot of episodes demonetized They really don't want us to exist anymore Help us exist, please. Yeah, and I like we said we still want to provide a lot of content that is free for people Yeah, but we just have to do something to be able to survive to make that free Yes, and hopefully gives you some value back If you subscribe by giving you exclusive episodes that won't be on YouTube, right? And I think you know when you go to the website if you go there now, there's gonna be like three or four premium episodes of China Uncensored already But keep in mind that this is just the beginning and your support is what will actually Allow us to make it more robust with tons more episodes more variety More everything more general hostility, right? So it's kind of like it's a it's a snowball effect right like the the number of subscriptions Allows us to make more content that will get more people to actually subscribe Yeah, hopefully yeah, and if you have things that you'd like to see Yeah, yeah, especially these early days like, you know a lot when there's only a few hundred subscribers or you know Whatever like you when you're in on the ground floor We're listening to you much more directly because there's just not that many people yet in the chat But we're still going through the chat and reading all the comments So this is a big deal. So so yeah, come on over This whole episode is basically like a pitch for China Uncensored TV. I don't think so. Oh, we were talking about great stuff Like when you said Trump and Biden, we're gonna kiss good content I'm just now imagining AI making videos of that right now. No, I think I probably already has yeah Well, my favorite Trump Biden AI video is the one word that you sent me where they're singing that Chinese song. Oh, yeah Can we show a clip of that on our website? We can I don't Are we? Yeah Well, so this is the whole problem like we have to have a conversation of like oh is this okay No, it's I mean, it's definitely fair use but it's kind of the issue is would Would it get caught up in the YouTube's like? Automatic copyright system. Yeah, or how they go after like AI as well Yeah It's like it's like the whole system is being run by Like well not the whole system but like at a very practical day-to-day level YouTube is being run by robots and Like, you know you think oh robots are gonna do things, you know, so well and efficiently and won't make mistakes Who thinks that at this point? I actually heard this on a Joe Rogan podcast with this idea that like, you know you if you if your ports are automated, it's gonna be like free from human error and Like I disagree with that because The the errors come in the parameters that you set for your robots well, and so I think that is the real problem with YouTube is that There there's I think there's very likely someone or a group of people in the middleman level who is setting parameters That end up screwing China and censored right like you set I don't know that I don't know if they still have it used to have like a like a P Score he score P value something like that look into the quartering talk about that But that was that was like five years ago, and I don't know what they're out system is now but they can clearly choose which channels get you know go viral and which ones are Essentially prevented from that because you know five six years ago like we would have Every couple months we'd have a video that goes like to a million views and We haven't had any in years since we really since since Kovac did we have any during Kovac and Well, I mean not since the Kovac started and and like, you know, it's not that like suddenly our content has Sucked because our number of actual subscribers, which is people who are meaningfully choosing to click subscribe. That's gone way up But the algorithm is clearly not pushing out China uncensored in the way that it used to so there's something going on there we just don't know what it is and you can't download the code anymore to see it and You know, we just don't know but like yeah some mid-level person Decides that we are persona non grata, but they don't want to officially censor and again We have no idea what connections China has in YouTube, right? Sounds far-fetched, but there was a Twitter whistleblower a few years back who exposed just how deep of a Chinese influence There was in Twitter before musk took over and who knows musk could be a lot of Chinese influence right now I mean, he's got I really don't like that. He's got Tesla factories in China I mean really this is not good musk's Chinese influence is kind of Out there in a way. Yes, like it's kind of less Insidious in a certain way than what's happening with YouTube or like if you're secretly an investor in BYD or something But you don't let anybody know. I mean everybody knows what like Tesla's connections are with China. That's a good point His mother is a like spokesperson for Chinese brands. Yeah Yeah, it's like very visibly so it in a way like that influence operation is clear to see You know, I mean and like I I mean I have mixed feelings about Elon Musk because I feel like he's definitely Not seeing the picture with the CCP clearly like he claims to be anti-communist and You know like a free speech absolutist and all the stuff and I think that what he's done with Twitter slash X has been good you know in general for America and for free speech, which they do not have in China at all But yeah, it's just like this giant blind spot when it comes to China. Yeah. Yeah, it's really strange I wish we could have an opportunity to speak to him and get to just hear what he's thinking Maybe you need to go on X and become like a power user and then I just don't have the soul left