Posted on 12/16/2021 9:58:32 AM PST by Mount Athos
Conservative comedian Steven Crowder has been suspended by YouTube over a video on Elon Musk, which the platform claims contained content “glorifying or inciting violence.” Crowder announced the suspension of his ‘Louder with Crowder’ show on Wednesday and recommended viewers instead watch his show on Rumble, a streaming platform that has become popular with conservative pundits. This is not Crowder’s first suspension.
In its message to the comedian, which Crowder posted on Twitter, YouTube claims that his Musk video “violates our hate speech policy.” The message goes on to say the decision was made to keep YouTube a “safe place.”
“Content glorifying or inciting violence against another person or group of people is not allowed on YouTube,” the company wrote in the message, although no specific details were provided on what they “think” promoted hatred on Crowder’s show.
“Of course, YouTube doesn't tell us specifically what about yesterday's show has them all boo-boo faced. At this point, it's not like they don't know how to get in touch with us or our lawyer Bill Richmond,” a statement posted to the ‘Louder with Crowder’ website reads.
On Tuesday’s show, titled ‘The Left HATES Elon Musk Because He’s Too Based,’ Crowder reacted to Musk being named TIME’s Person of the Year, and the ensuing backlash to the decision. The comedian also discussed the backlash to ‘Harry Potter’ author JK Rowling and her views on gender, as well as fellow comedian Sarah Silverman, a long outspoken liberal who recently found herself perplexed at accusations that she was racist because she chose to criticize MSNBC host Joy Reid.
Crowder’s YouTube page, which has over five million subscribers, remains up, but the video in question has been taken down.
Some pundits have bashed YouTube for not only censoring Crowder’s content, but for also not providing an actual reason despite seemingly having concerns about the views or language.
https://rumble.com/c/StevenCrowder
PING!
“Content glorifying or inciting violence against another person or group of people is not allowed on YouTube,”
How often do they ban antifa?
45,000 watching this morning on Rumble...Ted Cruz was the guest
Lol - it was NOT the Elon Musk discussion.
It was the country music video of a friend dealing with discovering his best friend is transgender.
Marxist-Youtube-Censorship BUMP
We’re both the same. Canadians who learned to love our adopted country. THis is nothing to him. He’s been suspended more times than I have been suspended on FR.
Same Old Lang Syne
Dan Fogelberg
parody of... pretty funny.
I avoid Youtube whenever I can. Most of the content I follow is available on Rumble. I feel a little sick inside whenever I am forced to click on a Youtube link.
The message goes on to say the decision was made to keep YouTube a ‘safe place for terrorists, anti-Christians, anti-Senites, and crybully liberals’
There, all fixed
Dang it i fixed it 3 times and it still wrote anti-Senites
Supposed to be anti-Semites.
I watched a good bit of it. Funny as usual. Don’t know about violence. They did mention suicide and Nazis, but it seemed the usual Crowder show.
They cancelled the episode because the sponsor was Walther Firearms.
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