00:07So, originally there were two videos in this series, and both were submitted to Google
00:13Ads for promotion.
00:15The first is still here on this channel, and it was accepted by Google Ads immediately,
00:20which is why it currently has more views than any of my other videos, although only a fraction
00:26of the likes that the second video earned.
00:31What about the second video?
00:33It took over a week after submission before I finally received Google Ads rejection.
00:40Was it for nudity or sexual content?
00:43No.
00:43It was rejected for having, quote, negative imagery, unquote.
00:49Nevertheless, even without Google Ads promotion, it was obviously more popular than the first
00:54video before it was removed.
00:58The removal was nothing like a copyright claim, which I've talked about before on this channel.
01:04The video was simply taken down.
01:07There was an appeal button, which I clicked, but nowhere to argue my case.
01:12This button is obviously just there so that YouTube is not violating the EU Digital Services
01:19Act, which stipulates that big media platforms like YouTube cannot remove contributors' content
01:25without giving the opportunity to appeal.
01:30My appeal, if it could be called that, was automatically denied in a matter of hours.
01:37So did the video, as YouTube claimed, include content intended for sexual gratification?
01:44No.
01:45No.
01:45In fact, it was a cautionary video advising viewers to treat free, uncensored, generative
01:52AI websites with a good deal of distrust.
01:57In my opinion, the real reason the video was removed was the same reason Google Ads already
02:03provided – negative imagery.
02:05After all, Google Ads and YouTube itself use the same community guidelines to determine whether
02:11a video should be accepted or rejected.
02:13And Google Ads in over a week of humming and whoring over whether or not to accept the video
02:19didn't reach the conclusion that the video had any nudity or sexual content.
02:26Both videos poked a bit of lighthearted fun at free, generative AI models and their websites.
02:34But the second video focused on free, uncensored Chinese AI models and their many unfrequent
02:42security flaws, which in my opinion is the real reason the video was removed.
02:48Which brings me onto Silicon Valley's best-kept secret – the ethnic makeup of the world's
02:54digital technology powerhouse.
02:56A staggering 18% plus of the workforce is Chinese.
03:04This does not mean what Chinese are little disparagingly call ABCs – American-born Chinese,
03:11although there are those too.
03:13Chinese Americans are more likely to identify as Americans.
03:17This 18% means Chinese from the People's Republic of China.
03:21Chinese citizens who are likely to identify first and foremost as Chinese.
03:30But at the end of the day, it doesn't matter how they identify themselves.
03:34What matters is how the government of China identifies them.
03:38And if they were born in China, they will always be regarded as Chinese, whether they have
03:44foreign citizenship or not.
03:48Now, you may say, just being Chinese doesn't mean they support the despotic regime in Beijing
03:54any more than being Israeli means you support Netanyahu's brutal bombing of Lebanese civilians.
04:01There's some truth in this, but comparisons can't be taken too far.
04:06Israeli citizens are not obliged by law to cooperate with Israeli intelligence overseas.
04:13Chinese, regardless of location, are required to do the bidding of China's massive intelligence
04:19agency if they are instructed to.
04:23Refusing to cooperate means big trouble.
04:28If they can't get to the uncooperative Chinese citizen through instruments of China's ever-growing
04:34transnational repression, like their unofficial police stations, they will very likely follow
04:41the news that the relatives back in China have been found guilty of some previously overlooked
04:46crime, typically tax evasion, and are facing prison sentences.
04:52Such messages usually get through, and many dissident Chinese become loyal servants of the CCP almost
04:59overnight, regardless of their inner feelings.
05:04Why would China's intelligence agency or his propaganda department care less about YouTube
05:09videos showing the PRC in a bad light?
05:13Well, because China takes a whole-nation mobilization approach to pushing its narrative overseas, as well
05:20as, by the way, to intelligence gathering and disinformation propagation.
05:25With a diaspora of around 45 million, in addition to all those citizens travelling abroad for only
05:31short time work or study, it's very well placed to do that effectively.
05:38So each citizen does what he or she can within the limits of their authority, not necessarily
05:44because they want to, although many do, but because they have to.
05:49It's worth bearing in mind, however, that while all Chinese citizens are expected to do their
05:55bit while living overseas, by helping to ensure that only positive views of the PRC get view
06:01time, once back in China, they are not only not required to promote China's narrative on
06:07foreign websites, they are prohibited from even viewing them.
06:11All major foreign social media sites, video and image sharing sites, blogs and so on, are
06:19blocked in China to ensure that nothing at odds with the Chinese Communist Party's narrative
06:24is viewed by Chinese citizens.
06:28This video has focused mostly on how the Chinese Communist Party uses the diaspora, in Silicon
06:35Valley and elsewhere, to enforce its views overseas, while at the same time preventing even
06:41the hint of a trace of a shadow of any commentary that could be construed as to be even remotely
06:48at odds with the CCP official line, from ever being aired within China.
06:55This is brainwashing at its finest, and most thoroughgoing.
06:59But to finish off, let's take a look at some non-Chinese, the kind the CPP love most, and the
07:07kind they hate most.
07:25Wow, China's number one in racism, too!
07:31But this guy has to be number one in servility.
07:36Here, he's not applying for a job as a slave, as you may imagine, but nearly apologizing for
07:43the terrible crime of accidentally calling Taiwan a country.
07:55Now, I have to say, I have a lot of mistakes, but it's very important.
07:59I love and respect China and Chinese.
08:05I'm sorry for my mistakes.
08:10Sorry, I'm sorry.
08:13You must understand.
08:15I love and respect China and Chinese.
08:22I'm sorry.
08:24See you.
08:29See you.
