2026-10-28T21:36:37Z https://nostr.now Firestorm Books https://nostr.now/npub10k8hgn0y2geqyezpkz5zx45e6m9eslcxn2d4mjm8eea33eyylk7q46t8a5 https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/000/054/506/original/e10725d08643af8a.jpg https://kolektiva.social/system/accounts/avatars/000/054/506/original/e10725d08643af8a.jpg https://nostr.now/nevent1qqsdxhq982f4n3wtfrgfck7anxu037ht59zldjeyemjex7qaxg47lrszyp7c7azdu3fryqnygxc2sg6kn8tvhxrlq6dfkhwtvl88kx8ysn7mcalahgf YouTube has started restricting most of our recent videos. They can still be viewed by turning off &#34;Restricted Mode,&#34; but this is only possible to do if you have control of your computer. I.e. people accessing our content from the library, schools, and other public institutions may no longer have the ability to do so. 🫤<br/><br/>Restricted videos include last week&#39;s conversation with Jarrod Shanahan and Eman Abdelhadi, a recent panel discussion on disability representation in YA, conversations on supermax prisons, science history, attacks on trans people, New Orleans, Rojava, and more.<br/><br/>Why now? An event in April with Tomas Rothaus and <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1m0c2j4uvhyr297xdc5nx70gjdr7sl0gyrqcekhru7jdwcy74z0sqcfj6rl" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective</span> (<span class="italic">npub1m0c…j6rl</span>)</a></span> attracted significant far Right attention, and these restrictions are likely the result of a concerted, bad-faith effort to remove our content. Many of the impacted videos feature authors published by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1w56ze0e6ps9zhv0zv4dmy8q7j9af4ztnefr7rar9l50exggyvrgqfsrjua" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>PM Press</span> (<span class="italic">npub1w56…rjua</span>)</a></span> and AK Press.<br/><br/>Our bookstore will challenge these restrictions, but it&#39;s felt for a while that the writing is on the wall for liberatory projects on corporate platforms. We&#39;ve already moved to reduce our dependence on Google and Meta elsewhere. No doubt this will nudge us further towards independent spaces. (- L)<br/> <img src="https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/116/512/173/404/910/785/original/e0decaae7467833f.png"> <br/> 2026-05-03T19:09:12Z