My comments were censored by YouTube
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Yesterday on July 13, 2021, in
support of those brave and patriotic young Cubans on
the island who are protesting in unprecedented
numbers, I posted on YouTube the following comment
in several videos
that were related to the protests:
“Lack of Human Rights, lack of
freedom of movement, lack of the ability to choose
your work, home, and school, are policies of the
Cuban dictatorial regime and have nothing to do with
the US embargo. The dictatorial Cuban government
could buy goods from other countries, but they do
not do it because they have destroyed the economy
with policies that have been irrational and
erroneous, and have no money to do it, nor do they
have credit because they have defaulted on their
foreign debt all along. These people protesting are
very brave because they know that they risk jail or
worse. It is not the same as protesting in the US.
If the world, represented by the UN, would send a
strong condemnation to the Cuban regime, this could
help a little. In my opinion, we will never see that
condemnation given the liberal and leftist slant of
the UN.”
When I was going to continue
posting, my ability to make comments was blocked and
I could not make any comments at all. This morning
when I checked, I was still blocked from making
comments and YouTube had also deleted all my
comments from yesterday.
I was not notified or contacted
with an explanation as to why and I was not told
which rule I had
violated. YouTube has many rules, but posting
political opinions based upon true and historical
facts should not be a violation of any of their
rules. Posting the same comment in different videos
should not be a violation of the rules either. My
guess is that my comments were “the wrong kind of
political comments” and for that I was censored.
The so-called president of Cuba
had said that the cause for the protests was the US
embargo. Several liberal US government figures and
some in the liberal media have
echoed that statement and even some have
blamed it on
Covid-19. In my comment I was trying to give some of
the real reasons why many young Cubans, from every
race and gender, were protesting and calling for
“Libertad.”
There is no freedom in Cuba and
the people of Cuba are fed up with the political and
economic system which has failed the country since
the communist revolution was established over 60
years ago. These young Cubans, who were raised and
indoctrinated by the government schools, are voicing
now what they probably have felt for many years. I
would guess that there are many more Cubans that
feel the same way, but are afraid to join the
protests.
It is a shame that the majority
of the governments of the world continue to turn
their backs to the Cuban people and their right to
be free. All these governments, including our
present one in the US, should have been forcefully
condemning this regime all along, but they are
silent even now or just saying, like Joe Biden has,
that “we are in support of the Cuban people.” This
is an empty and powerless statement. The different
world organizations should also forcefully declare
their support for the protesters and condemn the
lack of rights in Cuba. The government of Cuba
should feel the heat from the countries of the world
and all the world organizations.
Seeing that all the doors are closed for trade and
diplomatic relations could force them to relinquish
their absolute power and guide the country towards
democracy with free elections and the
re-establishment of the 1940 Cuban constitution.
The bravery of these protesting
cannot be overstated. They know that their lives are
in danger. They know, because they do not have any
means to do so, that they cannot tumble the
government forces by themselves and yet they go out
and protest in several cities of the island. It is
illegal in Cuba for non-government persons to have
weapons. The revolution took the right to bear arms
away from the Cubans at the very beginning of their
take-over. Fidel Castro used the slogan: “¿Armas
para qué?” Translates to: Why weapons? Does this
strategy sound familiar? Also, at the beginning of
this dictatorship the professional police force and
the army were also disbanded and new forces were
formed. Does this strategy sound familiar?
The dictatorial and murderous
regime in Cuba has shut down the internet so that
Cubans cannot get organized and tell the world what
is going on by using the social media outlets. We
are seeing in our own country, the US, how many
people are being censored by many social media
outlets just because someone has a conservative and
freedom-seeking opinion. Is there a parallel?
We should all do what we can to
support these protests and pray for a solution that
eliminates the longest dictatorship in history.