I suggest it might have something to do with this mass shut down of google and youtube a few days ago.
Posted on 06/04/2019 8:09:09 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
YouTube on Tuesday night said it will not take action against conservative commentator Steven Crowder, a popular YouTuber with nearly 4 million followers who has been accused of engaging in targeted homophobic and racist harassment against journalist Carlos Maza for the past two years.
The Google-owned company in a series of after-hours tweets to Maza wrote that the videos he had flagged in a viral Twitter thread "don’t violate our policies."
"Our teams spent the last few days conducting an in-depth review of the videos flagged to us, and while we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don’t violate our policies," YouTube wrote.
"As an open platform, it’s crucial for us to allow everyone–from creators to journalists to late-night TV hosts–to express their opinions w/in the scope of our policies," the tech behemoth wrote. "Opinions can be deeply offensive, but if they don’t violate our policies, they’ll remain on our site."
Steven Crowder, who brands himself as the host of YouTube's "NUMBER ONE conservative late night comedy show," has been making videos targeting Maza since Maza started working at Vox Media two years ago. Crowder in videos aimed at "debunking" Maza's Vox Media video series has called Maza a "lispy queer," a "little queer," "Mr. Gay Vox," "gay Latino from Vox," and a multitude of other derogatory names.
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Banning Steven Crowder seemed like a slam-dunk for youtube.
Clearly youtube could have found or manufactured any reason to ban Crowder but they didn't (yet).
Crowder Ping!
Note how the headline makes it seem YouTube is condoning “racism and homophobia”.
LOL, that guy makes me laugh my ass off!
Bill Richmond scares them. ;)
Crowder’s lawyer almost certainly has a lot to do with his ability to stay “platformed.”
Gay latino from Vox. Is he gay, is he latino, and does he work for Vox? If so, that is not an insult, it is a factual statement. Factual statements are now insults?
CC
He probably drops trou for Pete Buttgiggity, the other cabin boy.
Crowder made it very clear to his subscribers— that the tooty fruity clown in question, goes by a name that includes “GAY”
an “@gay_______-something” and that he purposely, identifiably does his VOX reports with pronounced dramatically delivered “hey look at me I’m queer” speech LISP.
So, he makes the point— it is neither homophobic or “hateful” to call someone by what they clearly call themselves.
A lispy speaking gay/queer hispanic.... that was it.
4 million subscribers know what he means, and.. how full of crap the ‘vox’ reporter is on his ‘reports’, on the basis of substantive facts— not “gaytitude” making it .... true.
Man bites dog.
The fellow was gay, and even calls himself a queer. So it was hateful for Crowder to use the terms he describes himself with?
Is Bill Richmond the Half-Asian lawyer? Because I’m sure they’re afraid of the the Half-Asian lawyer.
They don't want the negative backlash from Conservatives + other Youtubers that might result in a ban
If it was a nobody with a few hundred followers, Youtube would probably just ban him & delete his account
I remember there was a GAMER, playing Red Dead Redemption 2 who beat a feminist in the game, I think Youtube did take away his account but due to gamer backlash they reinstated his account lol
Spot on.
He’s being chosen as the counter argument of “see we don’t target conservatives”..
Steven Crowder has posted a public apology to everyone he has ever insulted on his show. It’s deeply moving and heartfelt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXdHGszjVCc
“Buttgiggity”..
All I can visualize right now is Family Guy’s Glen Quagmire repeating this word with his trademark head bob.
I apologize got going off-topic, but I’m crying a little. That’s how hard I laughed.
Something has changed for the good on youtube.
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