Pesti Srácok is organizing a demonstration in front of Google's headquarters this afternoon, after the tech giant deleted the portal's popular YouTube channel.
"We didn't think this day would come again. We didn't think that we would ever need our blackboards, which today are just a bad memory. On the signs with which we marched in front of Google's headquarters at the time and demanded what is ours: the right to free expression. But now we're here again," reads the description of the event announced on Facebook.
Pesti Srácok organized a similar demonstration three years ago, when seven years of their work disappeared from YouTube
As is known, the Pesti Srácok channel, PsTV, launched in September 2022, was deleted from YouTube a few days ago. The channel had more than 54,000 subscribers, according to Social Blade data, and their views were around seventy thousand per day, but there was one day in the last two weeks when the channel produced 240,000 views. In connection with what happened, Google justified the termination of the Pesti Srácok YouTube channel in a statement sent to the Hungarian Nation. "We canceled the PsTV channel because, by creating it, they circumvented our measure to cancel the Pesti Srácok channel, which we removed in February 2020 due to violations of the conditions regarding the safety of children," they wrote.
Gergely Huth, the editor-in-chief of PestiSrácok.hu, denied Google's claim in an interview with Magyar Nemzet.
- It is a false argument, since the Pesti Srácok never uploaded a video that violates the safety of children to the Internet. Anyone familiar with our work knows that the Pesti Srácok wrote perhaps the toughest series of investigative articles in the Hungarian press, articles about pedophile crimes, he said. He added: from background information and explanations, it became obvious to them that their videos concerning LGBTQ topics were actually objected to by Google.
"Now we have to stand up on the street! We have to show that there are many of us and that we stand up for our rights, which are also guaranteed by the Basic Law of Hungary. We have to show that an oversized tech company cannot override the laws of our country," the event's description reads.
The demonstration will take place this afternoon at 17.00 at Google Dara utca 1–3. will be at the headquarters located below.
"Let's show that we are not just statistics in a spreadsheet. We are people, Hungarian people, who cannot be silenced by Google with the push of a button. They also have to obey our laws, whether they like it or not. On Friday at 5 p.m., let's show how many of us there are! Let's show you where the God of the Hungarians lives!" they wrote.
the Facebook event here .
Source and full article: Magyar Nemzet
Featured image: Pesti Srácok/Gyula Péter Horváth
