To the United States Congress:

We, the undersigned, petition you to repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. This section of law provides immunity to internet platforms for content posted by third-party, even if that content is harmful or discriminatory. This has allowed big tech companies to censor certain users while allowing others to violate community guidelines with impunity.

UPDATE: Elon Musk's, X Corp., lawsuit against Media Matters proving Media Matters manipulation of X's algorithm to produce racist content next to X's Corporate paid advertisers to write emails to those corporate paid advertisers to disparage them from paying to advertise on X and write articles to sway public opinion about X, shows why section 230 should be repealed and free speech, no matter how harmful, should be allowed to flourish online as it does offline (November 22, 2023). 

Because of Media Matters potential fraudulent activity on X, how many X users could have been affected by permanent ban or lockout?  

THIS PETITION MATTERS because,

For example, YouTube's black content creators can refer to whites and other ethnic groups as "Nigga" in videos, but if a user writes the n-word in the comments or if a White person says the n-word in a YouTube video, they will either receive a strike, suspension, or a disabled account. This is a clear example of discrimination, and it is only possible because of Section 230.

It is suggested, YouTube allows Black Content Creators to use and monetize the n-word in their videos because it is a word commonly used by them, even though YouTube's community guidelines considers the n-word, regardless spelling and pronunciation, offensive to black persons (African-Americans) but Whites can be called "Nigga" yet they cannot say the word even in the fondness, supposed, meaning of the word. If the N-word is such a word of 'fondness' can someone explain to us why is its use a problem in Major League Baseball.

EX: Bill Maher

Bill Maher faced blacklash because he questioned, why is it appropriate for his black friends to introduce him to their other black friends as "My Nigga" but he could not introduce his black friends to his white friends as "My Nigga". Mr. Maher once referred to himself as a "House Nigger" and was caused to apologize on his syndicated cable show in front of a rapper named Ice Cube who was a former member of a group known as N.W.A. (Niggaz Wit Attitudes) and explicitly uses the word "Nigga" throughout his vocabulary in reference to people. Do you notice the spelling between Ebonics and Standard English? Black comedian, Dave Chappelle, on YouTube recently, jokingly told a story of a white calling him a "Nigga" in front of a predominantly white audience as if it supposed to be a problem yet he repeatedly spewed the "Nigga" while delivering the joke. 

I was permanently banned from YouTube in 2021 (during the pandemic, when online presence by most increased) supposedly for violation of its community guidelines regarding 'Hate Speech' and 'Harassment'. I have been interacting with YouTube since 2006. After 15yrs on YouTube, I ended up getting banned because of YouTube's Algorithm recommendation feeding my homepage with videos from its black content creators who monetize the word Nigga in both hateful and harassing ways on a continual basis.  

Personal Story:

One day as I was attempting to upload a draft birthday video and it would not upload, I refreshed the page, received a message from Google stating I was unable to access YouTube after the reset. Subsequently, via phone, I received an email from YouTube stating I was permanently banned from the platform for Hate Speech and Harassment. 

Hate Speech:

I was working on a paper titled African to African-American. I used Google's search engine to compile articles of interest for researching. After gathering enough research to being writing my paper, I took a break and went to my YouTube home page. At the top of YouTube's Recommendation Feed was a video titled All Africans Hate African Americans by black content creator, Flower Tower (The video title is no longer listed on her page). In Flower Tower's comment section, based solely, on the title of her video, I wrote - 'I have African friends both naturalized immigrants and refugees and it is not that they do not like so-called African-Americans, it's they are offended by people in America classifying themselves as "African-Americans" because they believe those people have no direct lineage to Africa and the only linkage between them and those born and raised in Africa is the word "Black"and thus they are not African-Americans but "Black-Americans" [paraphrasing].' Based on the replies to my comment, some understood what I wrote while others sided with Flower Tower that all Africans hate African-Americans. As threads expanded based on my initial comment with various replies, Ms. Tower, chimed in, as most of the replies were in my favor, and wrote I was an ignorant "Whiteman." In response to Ms. Tower, I wrote "I would rather be a 'Whiteman' than a no good "Nigger". Ms. Tower charged me with being a Whiteman despite my skin tone being as brown as hers, which is clearly shown by my YouTube profile pic. Either that video has been deleted or Ms. Tower has changed the title. 

Flower Tower, as of this date, is currently a BLM YouTube Black Content Creator who based on her videos appears to have a hatred for Africans and Whites. Ms. Tower's uploads go back three years. 

Many may take offense of my use of the word "Nigger" referring to Ms. because she referred to me as a "Whiteman", however, those who take offense to my referrence to Ms. Tower must understand YouTube monetizes off the N-word and understand "NIgga" is an alteration of "Nigger" with the difference being pronunciation.

REMEMBER - Africans during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade brought to the American continent for commercial trade had a dialect very different from the English dialect and converting from an African dialect to an English dialect gives a different vernacular when speaking. If you do not believe me asking any black person to say, "Nigger" and you'll learn because of Ebonics it will be difficult for them to say that word but "Nigga" flows flawlessly when they speak it.

Problem: It does NOT matter how the "N-word" is pronounced, it is Offensive no matter who speaks it. Why is it not racist for black person to call a white person a "Nigga"?

Below is a recent video of a Instagram Black Content Creator uploaded on YouTube referring to a radio personality as a "Bitch Ass Nigga" but the YouTube uploader cannot write it in their title as it is specifically stated because it would violate YouTube's community guidelines, which it would seem rather it is written or stated both would be a violation. The video is flared with the N-word and issues of seemingly promises and/or threats.

UPDATE: As you can see the "uploader" has removed the video, not YouTube. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Harassment:

This could result from a couple of engagements I had on YouTube as a comment section content creator. 

ESPN

Once again, during research for my a wordpress blog using Google's search engine regarding BLM (Black Lives Matter) and the organizations harmful affect on American society, I decided to take a break and watch some YouTube videos of no particular interest, and a video at the top of my home feed was a black content creator, Kwame Brown, questioning BLM's true intentions of the organization's activism. Mr. Brown's BLM video, as a result of YouTube's Algorithm Recommendation, intrigued me but was of no interest for me to want to watch yet was enough to draw my attention to his channel's homepage. 

One of Mr. Brown's video that was of interest was one wherein he was talking about his NBA legacy, issues with Michael Jordan, and questioning Mr. Stephen A. Smith's reasoning for labeling him a "Bust" for more than 20 years, which is as negative as a white person calling a Black person the N-word. Learning more about Mr. Brown and his legacy as the youngest 1st Round Draft pick in the NBA and had a NBA career for more than 12 years with better than average stats. Through Mr. Brown, I learned Mr. Smith was a failed basketball player who on ESPN berates black athletes and praises white athletes with similar career issues. Because YouTube allows Mr. Smith on ESPN to harass athletes such as disrespecting Mr. Brown intentionally mispronouncing his name as "Kwaaamaay" rather than Kwame. Because YouTube allowed Mr. Smith to harass former athletes, I believed I did not violate the community guidelines, when I wrote in the comment section of videos, "Stephen 'BareBack Buck' ... Why were you at them colleges?". My comment was in reference to Mr. Brown describing with video footage of Mr. Smith at colleges 20 years ago  labeling Mr. Brown a "Bust" which continued on ESPN in the 2020s and in reference to Mr. Brown telling of a former athlete who was violated by a fan while that athlete was out with his family as a result of Mr. Smith's continuous disparaging statements about that athlete on ESPN.  

Given some people have mental health issues because of their weight, is it okay that YouTube is permitting a Black monetized content creator to refer to a former colleague as a "FAT BASTARD"?

DID YOU NOTICE: Mr. Smith in a video uploaded on YouTube can call Mr. Whitlock a FAT BASTARD but the up-loader of the video below cannot spell out FAT BASTARD in his Video Title. Had the up-loader wrote FAT BASTARD in his YouTube title, he more than likely would have received a strike, suspension, or ban for violating the community guidelines for offensive language among other possible violations. Anyone who knows, 'Fat Bastard' is body shaming and body shaming can have a more detrimental affect on a person than the N-word because it can lead to thoughts of suicide.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Officially, I cannot be certain if my personal YouTube experience describe here is the absolute reasoning why YouTube permanently banned me, but given I have been engaging on YouTube since 2006 (we had to use modems), those are the only reasons I can think of because YouTube, unlike the Court of Law, doesn't specify how one's supposed hate speech and harassment is different than another's actual hate speech and harassment that actually violates the community guidelines. 

The Breakfast Club

Another issue Mr. Brown encountered was with a radio personality, Lenard Larry McKelvey, Public Persona, Charlamagne Tha God, who involved himself on the National Radio Syndicate Show, The Breakfast Club, disseminating information about Mr. Brown's father's, supposed, criminal past. This issue between Mr. Brown and Mr. McKelvey, supposedly, stemmed from an unnecessary conflict started by podcasters of 'ALL THE SMOKE ...' wherein it appeared they were making disparaging gestures when Mr. Brown's name was brought during one their podcast episodes. Supposedly, Mr. McKelvey is somehow connected to ALL THE SMOKE podcast. Co-host on ALL THE SMOKE podcast are somehow connected to Mr. Stephen A. Smith, who for over 20 years is the man who defamed Mr. Brown's 12 year NBA career compared to Mr. Smith not having a lustrous NBA career. 

For those who do not know, I became appalled with Mr. McKelvey when he caused rap artist  Lil Momma to cry during her Breakfast Club appearance as he sat there and savagely taunted her into a deep depression. The next time I became more appalled about what I was further learning about Mr. McKelvey arose when he was EXPOSED for participating in a gruesome act against a 15 year old female but took a plea for a lesser charge, as the 15 year old's mother did not allow her to take the stand against Mr. McKelvey because the daughter was a minor and the mother did not want her child to suffer future trauma, which she as suffered til this day.

One day Mr. Brown was in a discussion on a YouTube live-stream regarding the conflict between Mr. Brown and Mr. McKelvey, wherein I was creating content in the live-stream comment section, as I and others, were giving our perspectives regarding rather Mr. McKelvey had 'sexual violated' Ms. Reid. When I wrote Ms. Reid stated she was "raped" in the live-stream comment section, YouTube's algorithm asked me did I want to publish the word 'raped' and I confirmed I did. In 2018, there was a move to have Mr. McKelvey terminated The Breakfast Club.

Writing 'Rape" in the comment section of a live-stream can have a channel stricken, suspended, or banned, however, if it is posted in the cover title of a YouTube video, then it's okay to write? Who can and who cannot use the same speech that violates community guidelines is discriminatory. As well, the video is littered with the N-word and other defaming language, that if written in the comment section, would cause a channel to be penalized by YouTube. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, under certain videos of Mr. McKelvey on The Breakfast Club on YouTube, I wrote in the comment section, #justice4jessica and calling for a boycott of The Breakfast Club.    

Melanin Beauty:

Using YouTube's search engine to find a particular content creator doing fashion hauls, I came across another fashion haul content creator, profile name, Melanin Beauty. A female friend and myself watched her Swimsuit Haul as it was summer and my friend was looking for swimsuit. As we were watching Ms. Beauty's haul, I rated each swimsuit try-on based on my friend's similar shape. 

As I always do, when I wind down from researching for brainstorming ideas using google's search engine, I go to my YouTube's homepage. Guessing, I believe the YouTube Algorithm placed in my home feed a video from Melanin Beauty, titled: 'Vlog: I did wine tasting + Going back to the gym' I followed her day's video journey and at the end, I wrote in her comment section Great Journey, STOP WASTING MONEY!, Why? In her video, Ms. Beauty talked about paying for a gym membership she had not used for 3 months. In reply to my comment, Ms. Beauty went on the attack accusing me of being mad because she did not respond to my comments rating her Swimsuit Haul. Ms. Beauty, also wrote 'Go get a magazine and go to a corner and masturbate' (paraphrasing). In reply to Ms. Beauty, I let her know she a had warped mind because I don't understand where masturbating comes from as I did not make any sexual in nature statements regarding her swimsuit haul. Furthermore, I let Ms. Beauty know I was telling her to stop wasting money because she stated she been paying for a gym membership she had not used in three months and not meaning any harm and I would masturbate if she went nude on "Pornhub." Thought nothing else about it, figured she probably blocked me, I figured wrong!

As usual, visiting my YouTube Channel's home feed and at the top of the feed was a video by Ms. Beauty titled: 'A day at home Vlog ... New Job ...' I watched the video and, once again, in the comment section, I thanked her for the journey and wrote "Stop being Late" because in the video she was telling us she's always late to work as she was late making the video on her job's parking lot. 

Conclusion:

Every YouTube incident recalled herein all occurred within the same time frame, as YouTube's algorithm recommendation kept pushing videos to my home feed it believed were of interest to me, without me searching for them via YouTube's search bar, with the exception of Melanin Beauty, despite me specifically searching for someone else and her being listed in my narrow search. 

We believe that Section 230 is a major obstacle to holding big tech companies accountable for their actions. We urge you to repeal this harmful law and allow for the full enforcement of civil rights laws in the digital age.

EXAMPLES of YouTube's community guideline bias:

Niggas spewed in rapid session on YouTube: Just one example below:

UPDATE: As you can see the "up-loader" has removed the video, not YouTube. Otherwise the notice would read, "Video Unavailable because of Community Guideline violation(s) (paraphrasing)." 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stories of demonetization by YouTube for doing what other members are permitted to do being monetized:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for your time and action.