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mit26chell
06-14-2011, 10:21 PM
I've asked several people about this to make sure I wasn't going crazy, but has anyone noticed YouTube's blatant censorship of Ron Paul? Not regarding them cutting off audio to some videos, or removing actual clips from others, but from them screwing around with his search results? It's the weirdest thing, and maybe it's just their system and nothing sinister, but being a Paul fan, I can't ever rule out any possibilities.

Last year, I watched as a search for 'Ron Paul' on YouTube would yield an increasing number of videos, day after day. I wish I would have been taking screen shots then, but I had no reason to. From what I remember, the highest I ever saw him go was around 700,000 results. Then, randomly around either January or February, his results started dropping dramatically, by hundreds of thousands. I guess it's possible that people were simply deleting their Ron Paul videos - but it hardly seems likely that, that many videos would be deleted by their users...

The lowest the results got was down under 190,000 videos. This was probably around a few weeks ago. I took a screen shot on May 30th, because I wanted to start getting some kind of receipts for this, lol. Here is that shot:


187K Results
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/mit26chell/Net/YouTubeCensoringMondayMay302011.jpg

The next capture I took was from earlier today. What in the hell is going on?
916,000 Results
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v683/mit26chell/Net/YouTubeCensoringTuesdayJune142011.jpg

Anyone care to speculate?

Brandon Todd Carr
06-14-2011, 10:33 PM
They are always changing their search algorithms.

RonPaulVolunteer
06-14-2011, 10:36 PM
See: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?298523-YouTube-is-being-naughty!!-They-are-turning-off-embedding-on-all-debate-highlight-clips

jct74
06-14-2011, 11:47 PM
yeah, other people have noticed this, there's a thread about it here:
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?284301-Ron-Paul-Youtube-video-count-down-nearly-600-000-since-last-month

andrewjs18
06-15-2011, 12:06 AM
showing 988,000 results here for "Ron Paul"

http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww307/andrewshemo/01Jun15.jpg

civusamericanus
06-15-2011, 12:13 AM
Obama spiked up to About 1,420,000 results... But nice to see Ron Paul close to a million again, it's been 4 months since his numbers topped 200,000, when they were near a million in Feb. and Obama had less the 700,000.

mit26chell
06-15-2011, 03:50 AM
Glad to know I wasn't going crazy.
Very interesting that Paul had the most videos uploaded than any of the other candidates, then all of the sudden earlier this year, his numbers began falling to around Romney levels.

They're back up now, close to a million. Very weird.