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Now the EU is going after video platforms like BitChute that refuse to censor content critical...

• https://www.naturalnews.com, by: Ethan Huff

fter consulting with the U.K.'s Office of Communications (Ofcom), BitChute determined that the wording of its "Incitement to Hatred" guidelines was too narrow and needed to be altered in order to better cover the scope of the U.K.'s regulations against "extremism."

BitChute's previous policy wording defined terrorism and violent extremism as "any act of violence or intimidation carried out with the intention of furthering a religious, political or any other ideological objective."

"BitChute maintains and publishes a Proscribed Terrorist & Violent Extremist List that is utilised when identifying terrorist and violent extremist material. As this list will evolve over time, we suggest that all users regularly check it to ensure they are not breaching the guidelines," the company says.

Now, terrorism and violent extremism has been redefined by BitChute to include the prohibition of content coming from entities that have been "designated under counterterrorism legislation" as no longer having freedom of speech.