Venezuelan Chavista leader Diosdado Cabello showing the YouTube 100K subscriber plaque that he received. Photo: Con El Mazo Dando.
The US media conglomerate YouTube closed the channel of the television program Con el mazo dando hosted by the vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, after having sent him the silver plaque in recognition and certification of surpassing 100,000 subscribers a few days ago.
Demonstrating the meaning of digital fascism and the hegemonic manipulation of media by the United States, YouTube closed Cabello’s channel for no apparent reason and without warning, as reported on Saturday, August 10. YouTube usually closes channels when they incur in some breach of its rules or when it receives a complaint from users who consider the content published to be inappropriate.
Last Wednesday, Diosdado Cabello had hinted at the inminent censorship of the Youtube channel when he showed the plaque sent by YouTube after reaching 100,000 subscribers.
“Cry now right-wingers! They will take down this channel next week, I am sure. You will see why the oligarchs are going to submit complaints,” Cabello commented during the program.
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On Saturday, on the social media channels of the program Con el mazo dando, Cabello published the following message: “People filled with bitterness, we remind you that there is no undoing of the YouTube certificate.”
So far, YouTube has not provided any details or justification as to why the Con el Mazo Dando channel is not available, but the program is an endless source of information about the abuses of right wingers inside and outside Venezuela.
TikTokers imprisoned for hate speech
Six individuals who were creating content for social media platforms calling for harassing people close to the government were arrested by the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB), reported Últimas Noticias.
During the violent protests and riots promoted by the Venezuelan far-right opposition during July 29-30, hundreds of accounts on all social media platforms began to make public calls for the assassination of high-profile Chavistas and grassroots Chavista leaders and for violence against any Chavistas just for their political leanings.
Dozens of Chavista leaders and community leaders were badly beaten by criminal gangs linked to the far-right opposition on the two days that followed the presidential elections. Moreover, two Chavista leaders were killed in the wave of hatred promoted by the far right after it refused to recognize electoral defeat.
Among the detainees, Richard Jesús Hidalgo Ponce, Jhonatan José Novoa Niño, and Emilse Mayerline Castellano Araiz were arrested from the Mañongo neighborhood of Naguanagua municipality, Carabobo state. Agents from the General Directorate of Military Counterintelligence (DGCIM) participated in the arrest of these people.
Hidalgo, Novoa and Castellanos dedicated themselves to “creating content and uploading it on social media, inciting hatred and calling for violence against members of the government,” says the report of the National Anti-Extortion and Kidnapping Command (CONAS).
In the Santa Inés sector of Mara municipality, Zulia state, Jorge Luis Palmar Paz was arrested. He had published “hostile and obscene videos on social media (TikTok), addressing the citizen Constitutional President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela,” states the report by Detachment 112 of the Bolivarian National Guard (GNB).
In the Cielo Azul sector of Gran Sábana municipality, Bolívar state, GNB agents arrested Jairo José Abreu Palmare who appears in videos showing acts of violence that occurred in the aforementioned place on Monday, July 29.
At the Citizen Service Point located in Taguanes, Carabobo state, GNB agents arrested Randy Javier Aguilar who was seen in a video disseminated on WhatsApp groups, where acts of vandalism that occurred on July 29 at the José Carrillo Moreno Voting Center, located in Tinaco (Cojedes state), were recorded. The video claimed that electoral fraud had been committed at the voting center and incited voters to commit violence.
The detainees were handed over to the Attorney General’s Office that opened proceedings against them for inciting hatred.
(RedRadioVE) by Victoria Torres, with Orinoco Tribune content
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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