A DOCUMENTARY FEATURING mothers surviving Israel’s genocide in Gaza. A video investigation uncovering Israel’s role in the killing of a Palestinian American journalist. Another video revealing Israel’s destruction of Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank.
YouTube surreptitiously deleted all these videos in early October by wiping the accounts that posted them from its website, along with their channels’ archives. The accounts belonged to three prominent Palestinian human rights groups: Al-Haq, Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights.
The move came in response to a U.S. government campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
I remember video hosting sites before YouTube. The only one that I can remember now is stupid videos. Stupid videos was like watching a compilation of people falling down. YouTube was unique in that people created videos specifically for YouTube
I don’t really remember how slow things were because slow was just normal to me. I think the slowness was more to do with dial up or slow DSL speeds. We had to be patient back then.
It gets fuzzy because show means different things when you’re mixing pay and present speeds, as it’s a relative term. Everything was slow back them by today’s standards When I first started torrents I was on a 1.5Mb connection, which felt screaming fast at the time, but now it feels crippling because everything has board to take advantage of the extra speed for more ads and tracking data. Plus now videos mostly default to 1080p now, but back then 4:3 was the typical ratio on most computer monitors, and HD wasn’t even born yet. Widescreen was still a baby.
I had visited some of the video sites back then, but I was more preoccupied with school and online gaming to give it a whole lot of thought for what was mostly people tripping on stuff and machinima type stuff.