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Ten seconds at the end of a recruitment video for the Alaska State Troopers was too politically charged for YouTube, which has rejected an ad placement by the Department of Public Safety, Must Read Alaska has learned. In the video, the grand landscapes of Alaska are shown, and the values of being close to the communities are woven into the pitch for law enforcement officers to come north and apply to become a member of the storied Alaska State Troopers, if the jobs they’re stuck in in the Lower 48 seem to be losing their luster or if they don’t feel supported by their communities. At the end, Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy says a few words — 40 words to be exact: “Hi, I’m Mike Dunleavy, Governor of the Great State of Alaska. I support law enforcement because our public safety depends on it. So if you’re thinking about making a change, think about coming to Alaska we’d love to have you.” This week, the Department of Public Safety was notified that Google/YouTube canceled authorization of pay-per-click advertisement as it was interpreted to be political and potentially an election advertisement because of Dunleavy’s comments supporting law enforcement and encouraging people to apply to the DPS ranks. The ad could only be placed if the governor’s words supporting law enforcement were removed. The advertisement has not been actually deleted from the platform, but the department is not able to pay for mass distribution. While it can still be viewed and shared organically on YouTube, censorship can severely limit the DPS’s ability to reach potential applicants. 

 KIDZ BOP, the #1 music brand for kids, announced the launch of its brand-new virtual KIDZ BOP Workshop, in partnership with GoGo squeeZ®, the leading brand in healthy portable fruit and yogurt pouches for kids. Following the success of the KIDZ BOP Workshop in 2019, KIDZ BOP has created a free virtual interactive experience for the whole family to enjoy at home. Beginning July 14, the KIDZ BOP Workshop six-part series debuted on the KIDZ BOP YouTube channel, which has 2 million subscribers and 1.5 billion views, with a new video premiering daily at 12 PM EST. The KIDZ BOP Workshop gives fans the opportunity to experience what it’s like to be a KIDZ BOP Kid. Set to fan-favorite KIDZ BOP songs, kids and families will learn dancing, singing, and performance techniques from the official KIDZ BOP tour choreographer and KIDZ BOP official vocal coach, with help from KIDZ BOP Kid, Alana, and former KIDZ BOP Kid, Ashlynn. Beginning July 14, the KIDZ BOP Workshop includes: ●                   Tuesday, July 14: Warm Up ●                   Wednesday, July 15: Beginning & Intermediate Choreography ●                   Thursday, July 16: Vocal Warm Up & Vocal Performance ●                   Friday, July 17: Performance Techniques and Q&A Sasha Junk, President of KIDZ BOP says, “With so many family activities, including vacations and summer camps, on pause this year, we wanted to find a fun way for our fans to interact with KIDZ BOP from home. Last year, we saw great success on the road with the KIDZ BOP Workshop, and we’re happy to bring that experience to kids and families at home on YouTube. We’re excited to partner with GoGo squeeZ to help bring this interactive series to life.” Helene Caillate, Chief Marketing Officer at GoGo squeeZ, says, “Here at GoGo squeeZ, we are so excited to be partnering with KIDZ BOP for the very first time.…

VAN NUYS — A tattoo artist is facing up to four years in state prison for crashing a McLaren luxury sports car in Valley Village, killing YouTube personality Corey La Barrie on his 25th birthday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday. Daniel Joseph Silva, now 27, of North Hollywood, pleaded no contest Tuesday to one felony count of gross vehicular manslaughter in connection with the May 10 crash that killed Barrie, who was a passenger in the vehicle, according to Deputy District Attorney Yasmin Fardghassemi. He was initially charged with murder in connection with the crash. Silva was driving the 2020 McLaren 600LT at high speed eastbound on Huston Street when he lost control of the car, which ran off the road and hit a stop sign and tree on the northeast corner of Huston and Carpenter Avenue, police said. Silva suffered non-life-threatening injuries. La Barrie died at a hospital that night of multiple blunt force injuries, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office. La Barrie was part of a YouTube duo with Crawford Collins, and the two had more than 100,000 subscribers on their YouTube channel, according to Michael Kraut and Brian Breiter, attorneys representing the La Barrie family. He also had more than 335,000 subscribers on his own YouTube channel and 340,000 Instagram followers. “To lose a loved one is tragic in and of itself, but the devastating details of this case make it almost impossible for Corey’s family to come to terms with,” Breiter said. Silva — who appeared on the tattoo-competition TV show “Ink Master” — has remained behind bars since his arrest May 18, jail records show. He is due back in a Van Nuys courtroom Aug. 13 for sentencing.

A lawsuit alleging that YouTube violated the Constitution's First Amendment by removing videos promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory has been thrown out by a federal judge.U.S. District Judge Beth Freeman dismissed the suit against YouTube parent company Google on Tuesday. The complaint was filed last year by a group of self-described "conservative content creators" who claimed that their rights were violated when YouTube suspended their accounts. The judge found that the plaintiffs failed to prove that Google, as a private company, was acting on behalf of the government—the only entity liable for First Amendment claims."Based on the inapplicability of any of the four state action tests outlined by the Supreme Court... the Court finds that Plaintiffs have failed to plead a proper First Amendment claim due to their failure to sufficiently allege that Defendants' conduct constituted state action," Freeman wrote in her decision.Freeman dismissed the First Amendment claim "with prejudice," meaning that the plaintiffs cannot not appeal the decision in federal court. She was not convinced by arguments that YouTube was forced to act on behalf of the government by members of Congress who "demanded that the unpopular speech dubbed 'misinformation,' and QAnon-related speech be limited and erased."Lawyers for the…

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A conservative political commentator is being slammed for racist remarks targeting veteran Bay Area TV news reporter Betty Yu.Steven Crowder, the host of the political podcast and YouTube channel "Louder with Crowder," made the comments during a segment on his show Wednesday focusing on the closure of San Francisco's only In-N-Out location for failure to check customers' vaccination status. "San Francisco In-N-Out, they've been in a battle with the city over – let me just let them tell you the story, vaccine requirements," Crowder said. He then proceeds to play a video clip of a KPIX news segment, to which Crowder reacts to seeing Yu by saying, "Oh, that is an aggressively Asian face." One of Crowder's co-hosts, comedian Dave Landau, then says, "Easy." The rest of the "Louder with Crowder" segment went as follows: Crowder: "It is a — I mean that just means if you were a skier it would be like a black diamond you'd have to drop in on a chopper."  Landau: "Where's Drew Barrymore and Cameron Diaz?" Crowder: "The city confirmed that it closed a private business for not acting like the health – for not acting like the FDA." Crowder: "By the way, the…

Band members Matty Deveson (left) and Will Page (right) A NEW single from a Sussex folk band has gone viral after its release on social media. The new release from Noble Jacks, Dreams Carry Me On, attracted close to half a million views on video site YouTube in just four days. The song, released earlier this month, now has over 600,000 views on the platform. The British alternative-indie band praised the amount of support and views the new song had received online. Band members Will Page and Matty Deveson said: "It's every bands' dream to get such widespread appreciation of their work, which we are so grateful for." READ MORE: In Pictures: Rag'n'Bone Man performs hometown show Dreams Carry Me On is a homage to chasing dreams and not giving up, a mantra that is close to the band's hearts. "It comes from a place of belief in our own dreams as musicians, and we hope the message of holding on to a dream and pursuing it undeterred gives people hope towards their own dreams," they said. "Despite the pandemic creating a bleak outlook for us touring musicians, we took the opportunity to shoot this video as a reinforcement to our…

YouTube has been focusing on making changes that can allow creators to have a better time making the most of the content that they are working so hard on, and with all of that having been said and now out of the way it is important to note that there are three new changes coming into the mix that most content creators are going to be quite excited about because of how much control they can get thanks to these changes being implemented.The first change is one that will benefit small creators quite a bit by expanding mentions access to those that have 500 subscribers. Previously, creators needed to have 1,000 subscribers at minimum in order to be able to be mentioned, and this was a little restrictive since collaborating with someone or the other and getting mentioned by them is something that can send quite a bit of traffic your way. Smaller creators would be able to grow a lot faster now that they can be eligible for mentions with as little as 500 subscribers, and chances are that this will create a huge boom in terms of creators growing their fan base as well. Another change that is…

YouTube took down a video posted by the House Freedom Caucus of lawmakers discussing the constitutional limits to medically coercive vaccine mandates for the novel Wuhan coronavirus. “Our team has reviewed your content, and, unfortunately, we think it violates our medical misinformation policy,” the company wrote without reference to the specific infraction, emphasis theirs. YouTube did not immediately respond to The Federalist’s inquiry over what provoked the censorship. The nuked video focused on a proposal from Kansas Republican Sen. Roger Marshall to defund President Joe Biden’s federal vaccine mandate by blocking the use of resources within the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) or the Department of Labor for enforcement. The Marshall Amendment failed 50-50 along party lines, unable to capture the 60 votes it needed. The panel discussion censored by YouTube featured Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee with House Freedom Caucus members Andy Biggs of Arizona, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Louie Gohmert of Texas, and Alex Mooney of West Virginia. An identical video is still up on YouTube from another account managed by the House Freedom Caucus while it remains offline on the group’s alternative page. In the video, Lee railed against Biden’s attempts to require companies employing more…