Video platform YouTube on Monday issued a permanent ban on the channel of far left organization Right Wing Watch, which itself had attempted to de-platform numerous conservative media outlets.
As of Monday, the URL pointing to Right Wing Watch’s YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/RWWBlog, delivered a “page isn’t available” message.
Right Wing Watch (RWW) acknowledged the news in a tweet Monday morning, claiming they’d exhausted all avenues of recourse for appealing the decision and regaining access of the suspended channel.
“Our efforts to expose the bigoted view and dangerous conspiracy theories spread by right-wing activists has now resulted in @YouTube banning our channel and removing thousands of our videos,” Right Wing Watch wrote in a tweet. “We attempted to appeal this decision, and YouTube rejected it.”
A post from RWW reporter Jared Holt complained the channel’s termination had something to do with their reposting of banned videos.
“The awesome thing about platforms like YouTube is that if you’re a big channel and you spit in the face of TOS you’ll get to stay,” Holt wrote Monday. “But if you’re a channel that is drawing attention to what is happening on the bigger channels via clips, you get the TOS strikes w/o question.”
In an interview with Daily Beast, RWW senior fellow Kyle Mantyla claimed the channel received its final strike from a video that’d been up for 8 years.
Mantyla said that YouTube recently gave the RWW channel—which has roughly 60,000 subscribers—two strikes in April over videos it posted, prompting the watchdog to refrain from posting more content to the site until the strikes dropped off after 90 days. (Right Wing Watch had largely relied on rival platform Vimeo to host its videos in the meantime.)
“And then they found some video from eight years ago, that they flagged, took that down, and that was our third strike,” he explained. “And they took down our entire account.”
The news was met with freudenschade by many commentators on the right, who immediately pointed out the irony of the censorship chickens coming back home to roost.
Good on YouTube.
You get what you deserve 😌 https://t.co/780EUkZiqj
— Lauren Chen (@TheLaurenChen) June 28, 2021
You know you could always use Odysee, Bitchute, Rumble…
Oh yeah, wait, you alienated them all by calling them hateful lol. Guess opposing free expression isn't a great idea, is it?
— Styxhexenhammer666 (@Styx666Official) June 28, 2021
RWW repeatedly stole creators' work without editing or attribution. They also doxxed and harassed and defamed users.
They deserve this.
— Styxhexenhammer666 (@Styx666Official) June 28, 2021
So just so we're clear, you guys got your account suspended by trying to share videos of people you don't agree with….
HAHA…. The Irony is amazing here…
— Matt Couch (@RealMattCouch) June 28, 2021
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) June 28, 2021
— Poso (@JackPosobiec) June 28, 2021
Many also drew parallels between RWW’s ban and YouTube’s previous ban of Infowars and Alex Jones content, which RWW at the time called for and celebrated.
Meanwhile, @YouTube allows @joerogan to host and amplify the supposedly banned Alex Jones as a guy who "got so many things right." https://t.co/E8J3QgLKLr
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 29, 2020
The Daily Beast also made note of this, admitting, “In fact, Right Wing Watch’s exposure of Jones’ false and conspiratorial rhetoric was key to YouTube and other social-media platforms eventually removing his channel InfoWars from their sites.”
First they came for Alex Jones ….,wait First RWW went after Alex Jones and now they are no longer useful so they came for RWW.
— SpaceGhost (@Deathmetalpat) June 28, 2021
First they banned Alex Jones and you said nothing
— SD Patriot (@SDpatriot1776) June 28, 2021
While RWW is receiving support from its leftist cohorts in the media and elsewhere, it remains to be seen if it will be enough pressure for YouTube to possibly reverse their decision and reinstate the account.
Why Is It Always JEWISH Groups Trying to SHUT DOWN Free Speech?
source https://www.infowars.com/posts/irony-youtube-bans-far-left-org-right-wing-watch
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