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WATCH: PewDiePie Retakes Lead, Shows T-Series’ Cease and Desist Letter in New Music Video
PewDiePie is back on top after his new music video.
Top YouTube star PewDiePie, whose real name is Felix Kjellberg, has revealed that Indian corporation T-Series sent him a cease and desist letter to dissuade him from discussing the competition between the two YouTube channels.
After an intense 8 month battle for subscribers, the YouTube-allied Indian corporation appeared to have successfully overtaken Kjellberg yesterday, prompting Kjellberg to post a concession in the form of a new music video titled “Congratulations”.
In the video, Kjellberg reveals T-Series sent him a cease and desist, prompting the YouTube star to make fun of the company’s attempt at intimidation.
A separate video discussing the music video’s creation, uploaded by music producer Dave Brown to his Boy In A Band YouTube channel, offered more insight into the attempt to bully Kjellberg into silence.
“There’s one line talking about a message that Felix got from T-Series,” said Brown.”It’s the funniest legal letter I’ve seen. It’s trying to accuse him of defamation whilst not understanding the legal definition of defamation at all.”
Brown also hinted that Kjellberg may release his own video discussing the cease and desist letter.
If the Indian music corporation, which controls most of the videos and music produced the country’s Bollywood, really sent a legally baseless letter to intimidate an independent content creator, this could raise serious questions about why Google and YouTube would choose to partner with T-Series.
The New York Times reports that T-Series got its start selling pirated music on cassette tapes in the 1980s, and began signing its own artists and producing original music in the 1990s. By time a large Internet service provider in India made 4G available to the masses in 2016, T-Series had a massive library of content it was able to upload instantly, propelling its success.
This led YouTube to introduce “partnership deals” with the corporation in an effort to provide more content to the consumers in the emerging market.
In addition to the potential lawfare, T-Series has recently been under fire from the Indian government over ongoing allegations of tax fraud and offshore accounts.
To make matters worse, more serious questions have been raised about whether T-Series breaks YouTube’s terms and conditions by using fake accounts or “sub bots” to create the appearance of popularity.
In December of last year, Hindustan Times reported that T-Series lost over 200,000 subscribers after YouTube did a routine deletion of accounts run by spammers and bots. PewDiePie, meanwhile, lost roughly 40,000.
There are also theories that YouTube may be showing T-Series’ content to more users and neglecting to place Kjellberg’s content in trending categories. All of this paints a picture of a Big Tech platform that caters to possibly morally ambiguous corporations and ices out independent content creators.
While T-Series’ impressive collection of Bollywood content no doubt generates good will from the increasingly advertiser-conscious social media platform, Kjellberg’s channel has ventured into the field of social commentary as of late, recently slamming the infamous Gillette toxic masculinity advertisement as an example.
This led to Kjellberg receiving support from unlikely allies, including a sign wave during this year’s Superbowl, and a full endorsement from Infowars’ Alex Jones.
After releasing “Congratulations”, PewDiePie is back ahead of T-Series by about 50,000 subscribers at press time.
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Fairfield University Will Force Students to Take Mandatory COVID-19 Tests in Order to Attend Class
Fairfield University has announced its plans to be operational for the fall semester amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, tossing the privacy rights of students completely to the wayside.
“As Fairfield University plans to Bring its Stags Home for the fall 2020 semester, a safe return to campus life is our most important priority. We want to make sure our community members have all the information they need to maintain the vibrancy of our campus life but do so as safely as possible,” Fairfield University wrote in an email to their student body.
The university plans to force students to report their health data and submit it into an invasive cell phone app, monitor themselves for any close contact with individuals who have the virus, wear masks at all times while attending class, and subject themselves to mandatory COVID-19 testing to be allowed on campus.
Journalist Alex Berenson noted Fairfield’s proposed plans in a Twitter post, highlighting the absurdity and apparent illegality of the scheme:
Good morning. @fairfieldU – 6,000 students – is going to require random #SARSCoV2 testing for students, including some who live off-campus. Does HIPAA even allow this invasion of privacy? Imagine if they tried this for STis (which are probably more dangerous in this age range). pic.twitter.com/4CaogivaUY
take our poll - story continues belowCompleting this poll grants you access to Big League Politics updates free of charge. You may opt out at anytime. You also agree to this site's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 9, 2020
Berenson has drawn attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic is adversely impacting children, who are losing educational opportunities and having their rights systemically violated because of mass hysteria.
86,000 students in Nashville – a poor, urban school district – will be denied even the chance at in-person school in August. Online only.
That'll be tough for the 31% of students who don't have a computer at home.https://t.co/Lnm9SZhszl
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 9, 2020
Though it seems many blue-check media types would be happy enough if no one ever went back to work and we all lived on magic beans forever. DO YOUR JOB. Or find another.
— Alex Berenson (@AlexBerenson) July 9, 2020
Big League Politics has reported on the growing mass exodus from public schools that has resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic:
A recent poll of over twenty one hundred voters is showing that the future of public schools could be in great jeopardy when communities and states come out of lockdowns across the nation.
A survey of 2,122 registered voters by RealClear Opinion Research shows that support for educational choice is very strong, and that a plurality of parents are more likely to pursue homeschooling opportunities after COVID-19 lockdowns end.
The polling results show that 40% of families are more likely to homeschool or virtual school after lockdowns, and that 64% support school choice.
John Schilling who serves as the president of the American Federation for Children had this to say about the stunning results of the survey:
“Every single family with kids in school has been incredibly disrupted by the lockdowns. With fifty five million students no longer in their normal educational setting, families are clearly considering new options and many are seeing the benefits of homeschooling and virtual schooling. This is the time for leadership and for desperately needed bold reforms to be implemented across our K-12 education system.”
Homeschooling may be the only way for parents to protect their children from the Big Brother “solutions” to the COVID-19 pandemic in the classroom.
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