I have received complaints that Google’s @YouTubeTV is discriminating against faith-based programming.
These concerning allegations come at a time when American public discourse has experienced an unprecedented—and unacceptable—surge in censorship.
I’m asking Google for answers
Source: Federal Communications Chairman Brendan Carr Twitter.
What if they are? Does FCC have the authority to force them to carry or promote “faith-based programming”?
As someone who runs a streaming service, I wouldn’t allow it.
As a non-native speaker, I thought “faith-based programming” was some kind of religious brain-washing technique at first. Although the idea might not be too far off from reality.
Just a heads up, if they force YouTube to ‘embrace faith based programming’ you’re allowed to start killing people, it’s in the constitution
As a Christian. I’ve always hated faith based programming. It paints this idea of God as this magic lamp that if you say the right hting or make the right offerings you get what you want, and that’s the BEST CASE for faith based programming. most of it is money begging prosperity gospel bullshit.
Go find Highway to Heaven.
Better yet. Here it is all of it.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdxLt-lukkdJWIxb9Oii8uU6VPEjiA6eZ
Set aside the Christian messaging. It’s a show of tolernace and hope and people helping each other. Hell, it has a LITERAL ANGEL FROM GOD… discouraging a christian based school from excluding other faiths from their teaching.
Steve Shives (an avowed athiest) praising Highway to Heaven:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NULC3ogn-yE
This show would not be allowed to made today. It would get protested and condemned as ‘too woke.’
It was one of the things I watched growing up and I still see it as having value in showing what it truly means to be christian.
And more importantly? It’s two dudes going 'round the country helping people. Not by big miracles (usually,) but by giving people the tools to do things without leaning on God
Discriminate against deez nuts
All of my family’s churches stream services on youtube. Most started during COVID and never stopped.
If I can’t work from home YOU can’t go to church from home. It doesn’t count if you are not in the building just like workers. The church didn’t pay all that money for this giant fucking cathedral and cold hard wooden seats to have you sit at home in your layzboy.
During shutdown one church had a laptop on the lectern as the priest had been exposed to Covid through their husband and did the service over zoom to the congregation at home
Have these people not considered that God’s will is to have faith-based programming on its own private streaming service?
But then how would they force it on other people? Think of the children, man.
…Those exist.
“In too many cases silencing individuals for doing nothing more than expressing themselves online…”
Yeah… If your expression is “all the n-words and f-words should die in a fire” then you can go fuck yourself. You going to go complain to spez over at reddit that you can’t even post a picture of Luigi? I don’t think so.
The fcc has no authority over YouTube TV since it’s not broadcast. Doesn’t really matter what the FCC wants until Congress explicitly adds the power for them to control non-broadcast media. And oh boy will that not be good.
Let’s hope it does. Religion is a plague that needs to not be promoted. It is a social malware.
“second fastest growing channel in cable television” eh? I guess that means they got one new viewer while everything else went negative.
Brendan is just sad that Youtube doesn’t show his favorite programming: young boys.
We live in the dumbest fucking timeline
