by Dr. Susan Block.

Length 1:24:43 Date: Jan. 23, 2021

Whether you’re libel, libeled or just liable to go off the deep end in these Coronapocalyptic times, this show is for you. Actually, it’s for YouTube. But you can listen in (if they don’t censor it) like the proverbial “fly on the wall” (or Mike Pence’s head). Yes, Youtube is on a censoring rampage, and our channel is the latest victim of Dumb Bot drones in Google’s Military-Internet Complex. It’s not as bad as the U.S. Military-Industrial Complex, but it’s joining forces and wreaking damage… as well as damages.

Have YOU been Dumb-Bot-Droned by YouTube or another Big Tech Mega Monster like we just were?

Not only did YouTube censor us for no discernible reason, but it also libeled and defamed us. How? I’ll give you a hint: It’s not what you think it is. Listen above or below for more.

You’d probably think they’re censoring us for sexual content; I’d understand that. I wouldn’t agree with it, but I’d *get it.* After all, I am a sex therapist, a sexologist—and a rather sexy sexologist at that (shout out to the Glennys for naming me “Sexologist of the Year” for the second time!)—as well as a sex-positive talk show host, and YouTube notoriously finds anything that’s *too* sex-positive, or (even more confusing) “suggestive,” to be “inappropriate” by their (equally vague) “Community Standards.”

But in this case, they’re censoring me and Capt’n Max not for sex, but for “harassment” and “bullying.”

Huh?

“Harassment” and “bullying” are heinous and unsexy crimes that we have consistently stood against for some thirty years.

And it’s just plain wrong. Listen to the accused show, “After the Insurrection” (also on Facebook and all of our other platforms, none of which were censored), and I guarantee you’ll hear nothing that remotely resembles “harassment” or “bullying” anywhere. Our attorneys didn’t. The show is just 90 minutes of political talk, erotic interludes, silly jokes and train sounds.

“No Ifs, Ands or Bots”

YouTube’s Dumb Bot Drones may censor us, but they will not silence our voices.

There are always other platforms.

Nevertheless, in the YouTube Management Team’s paranoid corporate ignorance and unmoored zeal to wipe that perpetually filthy site *clean* of anything that might offend a major sponsor—at least anything posted by small, non-corporate channels like mine— they are doing tremendous damage. See our letter to Youtube’s Management and Legal Team below.

They could and should reverse their decision. But the damage they’ve already done cannot be undone.

Now we have to wrestle with the boring, centrist, capitalist, anti-sex neoliberals, while still holding firm against the fascists.

So, we bitch and moan about it on this show… though sometimes the moaning is eargasmic!

Ding Dong, the tRump is Gone!

We also celebrate the end of the Trumpus as U.S. Presidunce. Woohoo! We defeated the fascists! Yay! We drove the greedy, ammosexual, incel, neo-KKK, neo-Nazi insurrectionists back into their shamefaced bunkers (hope they and their AR-15s will stay there)!

Amen and AWOMEN! 

Now we have to wrestle with the boring, centrist, capitalist, anti-sex neoliberals, while still holding firm against the fascists. In other words, we have to Fuck Da Rich, and that’s our name, F.D.R. Woohoo!

Even in his final hours as President, the Trumpenstein managed to amaze me with how low he could go, pardoning war criminals, corporate cheaters, fellow grifters and cronies, but no pardon for Wikileaks journalist/publisher Julian Assange.

So much for Trumpty Dumpty fighting the Deep State. He’s just a weak, self-absorbed, murdering, broken asshole, not to mention a really bad yoke.

Therefore, we welcome our new President Joe Biden, first and foremost because he is not Donald J. Trump, the most narcissistic, sociopathic, incompetent, infantile, insurrection-inciting “Sorest Loser” ever, and one of the worst U.S. Presidents—right down there in the Presidential Losers’ circle with James Buchanan, Andrew Johnson, Dick Nixon (his ghost grinning between Roger Stone’s shoulder blades) and George W. Bush.

Speaking of mass murderous Shrub, please let us not rehabilitate this other failed businessman born sucking on a silver spoon (albeit with slightly better table manners), just so we can call tRump “the worst.”

Which brings us to the question: Who’s worse, Diaper Don or Deadly Dubya? Both murderous Daddy’s boys “won” the U.S. Presidency without the popular vote, catered to religious maniacs and went on to destroy vast swaths of humanity and the environment.

Awful as the Rape of the Capitol was, Bush’s Rape of Iraq killed over a million more human beings, and it’s still killing them. More to the point, C-student Yalie Georgie Boy paved the way for Diaper Don.

RIP Larry King

Though the Trumpus appears to have beat out Dubya Da Executionah in executions (including the recent lethal injection of Lisa Montgomery, an obviously deranged woman), King George II also killed a woman by the name of Karla Faye Tucker.

This comes up as we say farewell to Larry King, iconic broadcaster and eight-times-married ladies man. I met Larry briefly when he was dating my Being a Woman co-author, Dr. Toni Grant. Though Larry tried to casually flirt with me (this was the late 80s when confident folks flirted without fear), I was way too shy, not to mention scared of Dr. Toni’s jealous wrath, to reciprocate.  Though I was often impressed by his interviews, especially his amazing chat with Karla Faye Tucker just before Hangman George took her life.

U.S. Presidents are all a bunch of murderers and thieves anyway, but one of the better ones now reigns in the “Oval Orifice.” 

Poor Larry was 87 with many medical problems. They haven’t yet disclosed a cause of death, but a few weeks ago he was hospitalized with Covid, and now he’s gone.  We don’t talk much about the Coronapocalypse on this show, except to dedicate a moment of silence to the over two million dead victims worldwide, with almost 420,000 dead in the U.S.A. Who knows if Joe and Kamala can significantly reduce that number, but at least their administration is not denying the science.

F.D.R. & Ben Back in the Oval Orifice

So, with hopeful (albeit skeptical) hearts, we celebrate the American transition of power via the inauguration. Yeah, it was cool (Go Joe Go!), albeit a little too militaristic for bonoboësque me with its constant hosannas for “the troops” (the human face of the War Machine) and an overload of rockets’ red glare. I adore fireworks (they’re eyegasms!), but these were a tad obscene.  Some of our favorite parts were Bernie’s mittens (of course) and Kamala looking just like President Lisa in The Simpsons’ “Bart to the Future” episode (3/19/2000), where the new Commander-in-Chief tries to cope with the plummeting economy she inherited from “President Trump”—in a purple suit and pearls. It’s uncanny!

Max, our able engineer Unscene Abe, our lovely assistant Mariah and I have to laugh a bit at the Trumpers-Under-Arrest now ratting on Daddy Trump for their cop-killing, Confederate flag-flying Rape of the Capitol. It’s like the break-up of a toxic relationship, with Trump the Heel abandoning his beloved MAGAts just when they really need their Daddy. Talk about a Deadbeat Dad; no pardons for these suckers!

This brings us to the horned (I love horns!) “QAnon Shaman” Jake Angeli being granted “organic food” in prison, which is great (if true) because Prison Industrial-Complex food generally really sucks. All prisoners should receive decent nourishment in this rich country of ours or, well Fuck da Rich! This inspires Capt’n Max to tell a great story (part of his “Prison Tales” series) of the Rhode Island prison where he spent some quality time (for his publishing), where the top Mafia Dons would regularly smuggle in Italian banquets from the local restaurants they “protected,” and of course, the guards got an extra veal parmigiana. Listen above or below for the whole sordid, hilarious recipe.

Doing Cuckolding Group Therapy session with Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Little Daddy Trump on Robbie Martin’s Media Roots Radio.

Shoutout to Robbie Martin (the fabulous Abbie Martin’s also fabulous brother) who did an excellent interview with me, with very long name, “Sex Workers Battled Big Tech First, Obscenity Laws & Cuckolding in the Trump-era with Dr. Susan Block,” on Media Roots Radio.

Between tall and short tales, we chug along through the rain on our train through time, drinking and smoking in the Speakeasy bar car, commending Joe’s symbolic big changes to the Oval Office (which I always think of as the “Oval Orifice,” ever since the Clintonian Coup de Twat), including swapping tRump’s painting of his hero, notorious Native-American slaughterer, Andrew Jackson (let’s swap Andy’s mug with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill already!) for Benjamin Franklin, the most remarkable, sex-positive and maybe the least racist of the founders, who also happened to be a friend of Max’s princely Italian ancestor Gaetano Filangieri.

Franklin was never President, which might be to his credit. U.S. Presidents are all a bunch of murderers and thieves anyway, but one of the better ones now reigns in the “Oval Orifice.”  A large portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka F.D.R., hangs above a fireplace (appropriately enough for the Prez that invented “Fireside Chats,” inspiring my own “Bedside Chats”), surrounded by portraits of some of the founders. It’s nice to see Ben Franklin and F.D.R. casting their shadows on the current President, as opposed to evil Andy Jackson.

Biden’s no socialist, but F.D.R. (Fuck Da Rich) has made it into the Oval Orifice!

#GoBonobos for F.D.R. and listen above or below.  

And check out our letter to Youtube:

January 24, 2021

Google LLC, dba YouTube
901 Cherry Avenue
San Bruno, Ca. 94066
Email: legal@support.youtube.com
Fax: +1 650 872 8513

Dear YouTube Management Team, Legal Support and Bots,

On January 18, 2021, in my team’s weekly check of our programs on Youtube and other platforms, we discovered that YouTube had not only removed our radio show, “F.D.R. (F*ck Da Rich): After the Insurrection” (posted January 12, 2021), but had also posted a libelous and defamatory notice that this show was “removed for violating YouTube’s policy on harassment and bullying” (attached is a screenshot). These statements are still viewable by our listeners or anyone that clicks our links to that show, defaming my character and my thirty years of work as a therapist and advocate for the Bonobo Way of peace, love, sharing and understanding, as well as strongly opposing harassment, bullying, shaming and violence of all kinds.

What your bots may not know because they are only looking at words with which they have been programmed and not the precise meaning of the words (which is very clear to any human listener), is that these words are part of a critique of harassment, bullying and violence, specifically the violence at the Capitol in the case of this show.

Note that your bots may not be as smart as other sites’ bots, as this show has not been removed from Facebook or any other platform on the Internet. Your action goes against even your own Community Standards. I find it appalling that after 15 years, you not only remove this content, but libel and defame me while you’re at it.  This libelous action is not performed by a bot, but by the YouTube management team. Since you have no phone numbers or any way to contact a human, I filed an appeal, which has not been answered.

One of our attorneys has listened to this entire show and found no “harassment” or “bullying” whatsoever. Our other lawyer is also looking at this case to determine the damages from your libelous and defamatory statements about my character and my work. I’m writing this to you as a courtesy to try to resolve this without having to file any actions against Google LLC, dba YouTube, Sergey Brin, Larry Paige and Alphabet for libel and defamation. You have a right to remove content, but you have no right to defame and libel content providers, especially when you’re so egregiously wrong.

Please note that if I do not hear from a human on the team who has some kind of authority to resolve this issue, you will then hear from my attorneys, and we will move forward from there.

This notice is being sent via email, fax and Fed-Ex.

Sincerely,
Susan M. Block, Ph.D.

Breaking News: The day after we sent over that letter, YouTube reinstated our channel, so woohoo! BUT they have not reinstated the radio show they removed, “After the Insurrection,” so the fight for justice, the Bonobo Way,  continues. Later in the day, we received this email:

Hello,

As we are not in a position to adjudicate the veracity of postings, we do not remove content due to allegations of defamation. Consistent with Section 230(c) of the Communications Decency Act, we recommend that you pursue any claims you may have directly against the person who posted the content.

If your lawsuit results in a decision against the person who posted the content, and if that court order requires us to remove the content from our service, please reply to us and we will respond accordingly. In cases where the uploader is anonymous, we can provide you with user information pursuant to a valid third party subpoena or other appropriate legal process against Google Inc.

In order to ensure that your complaint is directed to the most appropriate place, please review the links below for information about YouTube’s content policies and how to report content.

If an individual within the video, or an authorized representative, believes the content violates YouTube’s Privacy Guidelines, please complete a privacy complaint.

If you think an interaction with a fellow community member has risen to the level of harassment, please visit our harassment and cyber bullying help page.

For other potential abuse or security issues, please visit our Policy and Safety Hub.

The YouTube Community flagged one or more of your videos as inappropriate. Flagged content is not automatically taken down by the flagging system. After review, the YouTube team has found that one or more of your videos violate our Community Guidelines. As a result, we have removed the content.

Accounts that have multiple or severe violations of our Community Guidelines may be suspended.

Please take some time to learn about YouTube’s Community Guidelines and how they are enforced.

If you think a Community Guidelines strike was applied to your account in error, you can appeal it.

Regards,

The YouTube Legal Support Team

And here’s what I wrote back:

Hello YouTube Legal Support Team!

Can you not read? Or are you also a Dumb Bot?

YOU are the “the person who posted the content” that is defaming me. You are the ones who are calling me defamatory names by saying that I’m guilty of “harassment” and “bullying.”

The guilty party is YOU, or more precisely, YouTube. That is, Google LLC, dba YouTube, and that is who is going to get sued unless we can resolve this amicably.

It appears that you and/or your bot just looked at some key words like “libel” and “defamation” in my letter, and then emailed me a form letter that has nothing to do with what I wrote.

I urge you to please read my first letter in this thread, listen to the show that was removed (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOHGX0diSxc), and then look at YouTube’s on-screen advisory that everyone sees when they click links to my show, and which verbally—and in writing—assaults my reputation, my work and the work of my team.

Here is YouTube’s defamatory advisory (posted by YouTube):

You might recognize who the guilty party is by the visual above. It’s YOU and YouTube!

I await your response. If I don’t hear from you within a couple of days, then you will hear from my attorney, Allan B. Gelbard, Esq., The Law Offices of Allan B. Gelbard, 15760 Ventura Blvd., Suite 801, Encino, CA 91436. Phone: (818) 386-9200.

Sincerely,

Susan M. Block, Ph.D.

Onward and forward!

January 23, 2021 Susan Block, Ph.D., a.k.a. “Dr. Suzy,” is a world renowned LA sex therapist, author of The Bonobo Way: The Evolution of Peace through Pleasure and horny housewife, occasionally seen on HBO and other channels. For speaking engagements, call 213-291-9497.