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One of the many topics of great concern to Truthers but willfully ignored by the more naive members of society who erroneously consider themselves to be safer by keeping silent on such issues is that of YouTube censorship. It's very real.

Thoughts on fighting it:

1. Mix yourself and your content in with other topics. Remember YouTube can see everything -- meaning it can see who's viewing your videos, who your friends are, who's subscribing to you, linking to you, etc. If it sees a cluster of 9/11 Truth videos -- meaning if all your videos are about 9/11 Truth, and all your friends are Truthers -- it will be very easy for them to censor you and to destroy the whole cluster if they so choose. Instead, mix 9/11 Truth in with other topics and associate yourself with non-9/11 topics (keywords are critical when doing so, but make your content genuinely reflect the topic instead of just being spam. This is essential to integrate yourself into other communities).

I view this as a marketing advantage in the sense that too often I see Truthers create a great video or something only to spread it to only the Truther community. Of course we are going to be supportive and love your stuff. But We already know all that stuff -- others need to see it. More consciously integrating yourself into non-Truther communities can help you "hide" inside YouTube while also helping you spread the Truth to people who aren't fully accepting it yet. It also raises the cost of YouTube censoring you, because the more YouTube stifles you if you are well integrated, the more it will be stifling other communities as well. And YouTube knows if it takes censorship too far it will self-destruct.

I try to do this with my YouTube channel.

2. HeySpread It. HeySpread is a service that will automatically upload all your videos to the various video sharing sites out there. The part that sucks is that it costs a nickel per site you want your video on, so if you want it on the 20 or so video sharing sites out there it will cost you a US dollar. The good news is that the US dollar is going to be rapidly devalued so in a few years $1 US dollar won't be able to buy you much anyway, so you might as well spend it today. Lucky you!

3. Syndicate From Someone Else. When putting the video on your site, embed the clip from a site besides YouTube. I know I need to do a better job of this, I'm a YouTube junkie. The problem from a technical perspective is that YouTube makes it SO EASY to pull their RSS feed into your site (although still not easy enough, as some parsing of the RSS feed is needed....they could make it easier, and they'll probably end up doing so). The other video sharing services need to get on the ball with this. RSS is the syndication standard, and thus making grabbing RSS feeds as easy as possible is critical -- even more so if your role in the value chain is based more on being a syndicator rather than a destination.

But I should do better.

And so should YouTube!