(Natural News) The Google-owned YouTube video streaming platform is ‘‘waging war’ on conservatives who speak their opinions about transgenderism.
The Daily Wire CEO Jeremy Boreing called out YouTube for censoring many of his network’s top personalities and their programs simply because of their views about transgender issues.
Hosts Candace Owens, Michael Knowles and Jordan B. Peterson, among others, were all found guilty of violating YouTube’s anti-free speech “Hateful and Derogatory” content policies. It turns out that any “negative” reporting about transgenderism is now considered by YouTube to constitute “hate.”
“@realDailyWire has received ~200 violations from @YouTube,” Boreing tweeted, adding that these punishments have resulted in “limited monetization” for the channels affected, not to mention full-blown censorship of The Daily Wire‘s most popular hosts.
The first blow came after The Daily Wire attempted to stream its “What is a Woman?” documentary on YouTube, which was created by director Matt Walsh, also of The Daily Wire. Boreing lamented that YouTube punished the account for the film, preventing it from streaming.
After that, YouTube went after the accounts of Owens and Knowles, both of whom host popular shows at The Daily Wire. The YouTube channels of both Owens and Knowles were locked and banned for seven days.
“We removed content from the Candace Owens Podcast channel and issued a strike for violating our hate speech and harassment policies, which apply equally to all creators on our platform,” YouTube admitted in response to an inquiry from MRC Free Speech America about the fiasco.
“As a result of these actions, the channel is temporarily suspended from uploading content to YouTube for one week,” YouTube added, clarifying in a separate email that it did the same thing to Knowles’ account.
In response to these seven-day bans, Boreing blasted YouTube all over Twitter, tweeting that more than one in four Americans now gets news from YouTube. And one of the most popular news outlets on YouTube is none other than The Daily Wire.
“Last week, our accounts had over 157M views on @YouTube,” Boreing explained. “That’s over 20M views a day. Yet we are on the verge of losing access to the platform.”
Owens also responded to her own censorship on YouTube by stating that the censorship model of Big Tech has really ramped up over the past several years, particularly after Donald Trump took the White House.
“We don’t know exactly what or who is the driving force behind globally-sanctioned lies, but what we do know is that over the past five years, the prevailing lies of the day have shifted dramatically,” Owens said, adding that Big Tech has also censored other content she produced about the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) and Black Lives Matter (BLM).
“In the end, truth wins,” she noted.
Sources for this article include:
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