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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYouTube suspends account of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/youtube-suspends-account-of-proud-boys-founder-gavin-mcinnes/Im kicked off YouTube yall, McInnes wrote in a Telegram post on Monday afternoon. 350k sub[scriptions], 155 videos, 30 [million] views, 15 years. Im told they are also going after [accounts] that feature me in any positive light.
McInnes included an image of a message that purportedly came from YouTube in which the platform said that his account had been suspended for content glorifying or inciting violence against another person or group of people.
McInnes has already been kicked off Twitter and Facebook and appears to have been previously banned by YouTube in 2018 for copyright infringement. He recently created a video streaming platform of his own for fellow far right commentators like Jacob Wohl and Laura Loomer.
We have strict policies that prohibit hate speech on YouTube, a YouTube spokesperson told Salon by email in a statement. We terminate channels that repeatedly or egregiously violate our policies. According to YouTube, the company updated its hate speech policy in June 2019 to ban content such as speech that claimed one group is superior to another. This led to a fivefold increase in the number of channels and videos that the streaming platform had to remove for violating its hate speech policies, and included 107,000 videos, 2,600 channels and 43 million comments in the first quarter of 2020.
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YouTube suspends account of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes (Original Post)
Celerity
Jun 2020
OP
But Youtube still allows videos of men chasing down coyotes or wolves on snowmobiles
Beringia
Jun 2020
#2
Trip down memory lane: when some DUers supported a McInnes piece in a racist magazine
muriel_volestrangler
Jun 2020
#3
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)1. Dear Gavin: Nobody likes you
If you disappeared tomorrow, nobody would miss you.
Beringia
(4,316 posts)2. But Youtube still allows videos of men chasing down coyotes or wolves on snowmobiles
and running them over.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)3. Trip down memory lane: when some DUers supported a McInnes piece in a racist magazine
Coventina
(27,172 posts)4. Wow! Somehow I missed that one!
Yeesh!
Wounded Bear
(58,706 posts)5. 15 years? Wow, right on top of that anti-violence shit, ain't they...
crickets
(25,983 posts)6. That jumped out at me as well.
The reason YouTube has finally decided to deal with it is because it's good publicity right now.