{"id":8343,"date":"2020-03-06T17:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.media\/?p=8343"},"modified":"2020-03-26T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-26T13:06:08","slug":"push-back-against-googles-attacks-on-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/push-back-against-googles-attacks-on-bitcoin-and-cryptocurrencies\/","title":{"rendered":"#ForkGoogle: Community Initiative Against Google\u2019s Pressure on Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent strikes against cryptocurrency-themed YouTubers and several actions on the part of Google to take down cryptocurrency-related apps from the Google Play store urged some crypto-community members to take some action.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Google\u2019s YouTube administration blocked content creators Ivan on Tech, Chico Crypto, and CryptoWendyO. YouTube called the content \u201charmful or dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">YOUTUBE CRYPTO PURGE IS BACK!!<\/p>\n<p>Our channel has a strike as soon as I started a new live stream.<\/p>\n<p>This doesn&#39;t make sense, nothing dangerous or harmful was being presented in that stream. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamYouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamYouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YTCreators?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ytcreators<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a> Please help!<\/p>\n<p>WE NEED HELP ON THIS MATTER!<br \/>SHARE THIS!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/630Mp3al8d\">pic.twitter.com\/630Mp3al8d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ivan on Tech \ud83c\udf73\ud83d\udcc8\ud83d\udcb0 (@IvanOnTech) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IvanOnTech\/status\/1231662333577048065?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 23, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In the first days of February, the company turned against the Cryptodealers YouTube channel. YouTube administration said they are going to look into the matter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are facing the same situation as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IvanOnTech?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IvanOnTech<\/a> !<\/p>\n<p>This doesn\u2019t make sense, we haven\u2019t made any dangerous or hamful content on our channel.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9U4XiDrpeT\">https:\/\/t.co\/9U4XiDrpeT<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamYouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TeamYouTube<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YTCreators?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ytcreators<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a> please help! <\/p>\n<p>We need help on this matter! <\/p>\n<p>PLEASE SHARE THIS!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zQVHOYphKP\">pic.twitter.com\/zQVHOYphKP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; cryptodealers (@cryptodealers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cryptodealers\/status\/1234277580221665281?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to co-founder Ruslan Rud, crypto-related channels BrainMiners and BitBoy Crypto <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bitboy_Crypto\/status\/1233927292088442880\">faced<\/a> similar trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Google Store <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Bitboy_Crypto\/status\/1233927292088442880\">has been taking down<\/a> cryptocurrency news apps, including that of Cointelegraph.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b><i>\u201cGoogle did not contact Cointelegraph regarding the planned removal. We have reached out to the company but received no response as of press time,\u201d <\/i><\/b><i>Cointelegraph wrote.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is aimed at supporting the development of distributed technologies based on Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency systems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<b><i>We deem these actions anti-market behavior, digital militarism, and informational discrimination. We shall actively engage in community events, pursuing the goal of ending Google\u2019s pressure on the industry<\/i><\/b>,\u201d the memorandum reads.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The authors noted called for the authorities of the U.S. and other countries to investigate Google\u2019s \u201canti-market behavior\u201d and to have its representatives \u201ctestify on the corporation\u2019s hostile actions targeting industry members.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the memorandum, the initiative is to draw the professional community\u2019s attention to technologies facilitating alternative content distribution and media networks creation.<\/p>\n<p>The memorandum\u2019s authors <a href=\"http:\/\/chng.it\/nDNPxGFY\">created<\/a> a petition on Change.it asking the community to support their endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>#ForkGoogle is also meant to inform the public about Bitcoin and popularize cryptocurrencies.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign\u2019s organizers noted that protests are currently being organized in Kyiv, Odesa, Tel Aviv, and New York.<\/p>\n<p>Back in December 2019, YouTube <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheMoonCarl\/status\/1210310711173406720\">blocked<\/a> hundreds of crypto-related videos. The incident was explained by \u201cerror\u201d on the platform\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<p><em>The article was edited to reflect the recent developments and clarify minor discrepancies<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent strikes against cryptocurrency-themed YouTubers and several actions on the part of Google to take down cryptocurrency-related apps from the Google Play store urged some crypto-community members to take some action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"human_written","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1107],"tags":[1101,25,30,701,738],"class_list":["post-8343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-occupy-the-internet","tag-forkgoogle","tag-blockchain","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-forklog","tag-google"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"1032","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8343"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8352,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8343\/revisions\/8352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}