YouTube comes down on Alex Jones for hate speech, child endangerment content
As Facebook figures out how to treat inflammatory content, YouTube cracks down harder.
VALENTINA PALLADINO - 7/26/2018, 9:17 AM
YouTube issued a strike to the channel of radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones this week after some of his videos were found to have violated YouTube community guidelines. According to a report by The Verge, YouTube removed four videos from Jones' channel that allegedly contained instances of hate speech and child endangerment and issued one strike to his account. That new strike prevents Jones from live streaming for 90 days.
Two of the removed videos allegedly contained hate speech against Muslims, and one video was said to have contained hate speech against transgender people. The fourth video showed a child being pushed to the ground by an adult male and was titled "How to prevent liberalism." That video remains up on InfoWars' Facebook page.
"We have longstanding policies against child endangerment and hate speech,” a YouTube representative said in a statement. "We apply our policies consistently according to the content in the videos, regardless of the speaker or the channel. We also have a clear three-strikes policy and we terminate channels when they receive three strikes in three months."
Three strikes to an account within three months will result in termination of the account. However, strikes expire three months after they've been issued. Jones' channel received a strike back in February after a video promoted the roundly debunked conspiracy theory that survivors of the Parkland shooting were "crisis actors."
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/youtube-removes-four-alex-jones-videos-for-hate-speech-child-endangerment/