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A few days ago, YouTube removed an interview with Professor Dolores Cahill from the Computing Forever channel after Business Insider complained that it was filled with COVID-19 conspiracies and reported it to YouTube.

After the video was removed, the channels host, Dave Cullen, posted a brief 3:38 second update where he discussed the censorship of this Cahill interview.

And now YouTube has taken down Cullens update video for violating YouTubes community guidelines.

In this update video, Cullen talked about the takedown of the Cahill interview, shared the vague takedown notice hed received from YouTube, and encouraged viewers to watch the Cahill interview on BitChute a YouTube alternative that supports free speech.

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He also shared his opinion that the coronavirus is no more dangerous than seasonal influenza and that societal changes which are being ushered in as a response to the coronavirus are making way for what looks like a China-style social credit dystopia.

Additionally, Cullen slammed the censorship of the Cahill interview, discussed the need for a broad spectrum of ideas represented in order to finally find the truth, and warned that such censorship will create a Streisand Effect.

He closed out the update video by encouraging viewers to watch, download, share, and reupload the Cahill interview wherever they can.

While YouTubes notice only cites general community guideline violations, the update video was presumably taken down because YouTube deemed Cullen sharing his opinion on the coronavirus as going against the World Health Organization (WHO) something thats banned under the platforms controversial coronavirus policies.

Although the video has been removed from YouTube, its still available on BitChute.

Not only is YouTubes decision to censor a video calling out its censorship layered in irony but it also highlights the platforms increasingly aggressive enforcement against what it deems to be coronavirus misinformation.

The majority of the video focused on YouTubes censorship of the Cahill interview but Cullen briefly sharing his opinion on the virus seemingly was enough to get it taken down.

The removal of Cullens videos is the latest in a wave of recent coronavirus video takedowns on YouTube with some recent examples including the deletion of a video from anti-lockdown epidemiology researcher Knut M. Wittkowskki which had racked up millions of views and the removal of a popular interview with Dr. Judy Mikovits on the Valuetainment channel.

However, as YouTube faces mounting criticism for its censorship of coronavirus content, some videos are being reinstated.

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Following its recent arrival on the streaming service, fans have discovered that Netflix has censored the seconds long shot of the Oh L L lingerie magazine cover in Back to the Future II.

After a frantic chase to retrieve the Grays Sports Almanac from the younger Biff Tannen in an effort to restore the timeline to its original state, Marty McFly finally obtains the almanac after Principal Strickland confiscates the book from Biff and tosses it in the garbage.

However, Marty instead discovers that the confiscated book was actually a risqu lingerie magazine titled Oh LL which Biff attempted to disguise using the cover of the almanac. Dismayed, Marty discards the lingerie magazine and resumes the hunt for the history altering publication.

The magazine cover, featuring a woman wearing a modest-by-todays-standards night gown and high heeled sandals, appears for roughly 5 seconds of total screen time.

In the Netflix edit, while the contents of the magazine are still seen, these five seconds have been completely removed, resulting in a jarring and confusing cut transition straight to Martys frustrated panic.

These edits were documented by the titular host of the Salty Nerd podcast and Youtuber Justin Proper, who provided the original and edited scenes, respectively:

As of writing, Netflix has not commented publicly on the reason for this strange and unnecessary edit.

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In a recent episode of Slightly Offens*ve, Elijah Schaffer offered a "daily dose" of madness as he discussed a new member of the Twitch moderation team: a transgender who identifies as a deer and who openly threatened to ban Twitch users with less "diverse" opinions.

"I have power, they can't take it away from me," bragged Steph Loehr, also known as FerociouslySteph. "And honestly there are some people that should be afraid of me, and they are because I represent moderation and diversity and I'm gonna come for harmful people. If you're a really sh**ty person I'm gonna stand up against you. Period. And Twitch is endorsing me to do that."

"At least mental illness has a name, and that name is apparently Steph Loehr," said Elijah. He played videos of Loehr explaining how she likes to "prance around and eat grass," as well as having a "deergasm."

"This is the state of free speech online. This is who's censoring you," added Elijah.

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Elias Dehni is a Lebanese professional e-sports competitor who has, so far, scored 2 first-place wins in the Junior division of the ongoing tournament for the World ERally Championship (WERC).

WERC is an international virtual racing tournament that takes place over a period of several months across different video gaming platforms.

After winning the Argentina Rally back in April, Dehni dominated the DiRT Rally 2.0 race again in the most recent round of the tournament, the USA Rally, in May.

In the latter, the Lebanese player crossed the finish line with the winning score of 00:33:52.620, after racing 69 competitors from around the world.

With this win, Elias Dehni, who is registered as ELIAS_DEHN05 in the virtual rally tournament, made up for the loss he had suffered during the previous round the Finland Rally when his car crashed mid-race.

Dehnis next challenge, the Greece Rally, starts on the 1st of June and lasts until the 8th.

Following that, the e-sports gamer will have to push through 9 additional rallies, namely Monte Carlo, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Germany, New Zealand, Scotland, Australia, and Wales, before the competition ends in late November 2020.

Each of these rounds lasts one week and involves 9 different stages with varying settings and virtual weather conditions.

The WERC takes place between more than 500 players across three video game platforms; PC, Xbox One, and PS4, which is Elias Dehnis console of choice for this tournament.

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The Indian Censor Board or the Central Board of Film Certification has a very polarising effect on people. Although filmmakers have learnt to live with some of the seemingly bizarre decisions that the board has takenover the years, there are a few filmmakers who just cannot stand the thought of having to deal with the people running the censor board.

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And for good reasons. Over the years, a number of great films have actually been ruined because of censorship. Now, we are not simply referring to the instances when the censor board recommended some major edits, and cuts in a film to let it pass.

Rather, we are looking at instances when the censor board played some games with issuing a certificate, or sometimes went a step further and indulged in some nefarious means, allegedly.

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Here are 5 films that got screwed by the censor board in India, in some really nefarious ways.

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We know that Paanch was ultimately banned from public screening in theatres and on television. What many people do not know, is that it came very close to a release, albeit with an A certification. After about a year and half of being submitted, the board gave the filmmakers a list of changes that needed to be made to make the film feasible. The list of the changes was so exhaustive, that the films producer, Tutu Sharma, couldnt cough up the additional money required to make the changed. Remember, Rs 2-3 crores was a humongous amount, back in 2003, and Sharma had already invested that money in the film. There was no chance that he could invest any more. Of course, Anurag Kashyap, the films director wasnt happy.

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The war between Anurag Kashyap and the CBFC is a long, and well documented one. However, the incidents that took place with Udta Punjab is on a different level. First, the censor board refused a certificate, unless a few banal changes were made. Kashyap took the CBFC to court, and surprisingly, he won. This is where things get interesting. The Bombay High Court, on the 13th of June, 2016 ordered the CBFC to give the film an A certificate and let it release as per schedule, i.e.on the 17th of June. On the 15th of June, two days prior to the day of release, the film was leaked on the internet, where it was picked up by a number of torrent websites. The leaked copy of the filmhad the words "FOR CENSOR" on the top-left corner of the frame. The producers of the film alleged that someone from the censor board leaked the film online. The leak hit the business prospects of the film hard. What was being built up as a Rs 100-200 crore film, barely managed to get across Rs 90 Crores.

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Imagine making a documentary on Indian politics and being told, not to use the name, nor feature any political party, or a political figure, without written consent from the individual and the party involved. An Insignificant Man followed the 2012-2013 Delhi Elections, focusing on Arvind Kejriwal. The film was scheduled to get a release in 2015. However, the Censor Board refused to issue a certificate and told the filmmakers to get a NOC from the Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, the then Chief Minister of Delhi, Arvind Kejriwal, and several other people. The filmmakers refused and filed an appeal at the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, which decided in their favour. The film was finally allowed to be released in 2017, about two years after it was scheduled.

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Shekhar Kapoors Bandit Queen was first screened at the Cannes Film Festival in May of 1994, and received a resoundingly positive response. Many people considered that this would change how the world saw Indian Cinema. However, at home, the film did not sit well. The film was submitted to the CBFC in August 1994. After about a year, and several rounds going back & forth, the filmmakers were advised to make over 100 changes. They refused and approached the Film Certification Appellate Tribunal, which allowed the film as it was. The film was finally allowed a release in January 1996 but was taken down by the Delhi High Court after someone made an objection. After several cuts and tweaks, it was finally allowed to be re-released by the Supreme Court, in the form that the FCAT allowed it.

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After some major hiccups during the making of the film, the film was finally ready for a release in 2012, which, due to some issues, eventually got pushed back to 2015. When it was finally submitted to the CBFC for a certificate, the board straight away banned the film. Upon appeal, the FCAT instructed the filmmakers to make 10 changes and resubmit the film for consideration. The filmmakers took the CBFC to court, and after two year-long battle, were finally allowed to release the film. Prior to the official submission to the censor board, the film also got leaked on the internet, where it was picked up by torrent websites.

There are several other films, which got mangled up badly when the CBFC took their proverbial scissors to them. However, as bad as they were, they were at least allowed a timely and proper release. Imagine how well Udta Punjab would have done, had it not been subjected to the internal politics of CBFC.

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