InfoWars' Bureau Chief YouTube Account Terminated With No Explanation, Reinstated Hours Later
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March, 2018
InfoWars'
Washington D.C. bureau chief, Jerome Corsi, was temporarily kicked
off of YouTube Thursday after receiving two warnings under the
platform's bullying and harassment policy.
The
account was restored hours later with no explanation - similar to the
Alex Jones Channel's second strike last week.
Dr.
Jerome Corsi, the 71-year-old Harvard PhD who has become a permanent
fixture at InfoWars, had been on the verge of a permanent ban last
week
alongside a host of other conservative or "conspiracy"
channels critical of the response to the Parkland, FL school
shooting. In particular, Corsi received two strikes this week
for the videos DOES the TRUMP COUNTERATTACK start NOW? YEs,
and Trump
Wins Narrative on FL School Shooting.
The
cause of his third strike and temporary ban are unknown.
Corsi
has called out YouTube and parent company Google over the
termination, noting that they "Stole my FEB EARNINGS."
According
to YouTube policy, accounts which receive three strikes within any 90
day period are terminated.
Corsi is
known for espousing "conspiracy theories," which - as
is often the case in the fullness of time, can become conspiracy
fact. His opinions on subjects from President Obama's country of
origin to a 9/11 government coverup have painted a target on the
Harvard PhD's back - particularly as Corsi's popularity has grown
alongside InfoWars, founded
by Alex Jones.
Over
the last week, The Alex Jones channel was issued two
strikes -
however the second one was unexplicably removed just hours
later.
Corsi's
ban follows several other accounts known for conservative or
non-mainstream opinions, including Anti-School, Bombard's
Body Language, Charlton, Charles
Walton, Defango, Dustin
Nemos, David
Seaman, Destroying
The Illusion, Ron
Johnson, Richie
Allen,
and Titus
Frost.
Earlier
in the week, Google announced that "newer
members"
of its recently hired moderation team of 10,000 employees
had "misapplied"
some of YouTube's policies and mistakenly removed videos and issued
strikes against conservative content creators.
"As
we work to hire rapidly and ramp up our policy enforcement teams
throughout 2018, newer members may misapply some of our policies
resulting in mistaken removals,"
wrote a YouTube spokesman in an email. "We’re continuing to
enforce our existing policies regarding harmful and dangerous
content, they have not changed. We’ll
reinstate any videos that were removed in error."
Far-left
activist groups flagging YouTube content
Meanwhile,
as we reported yesterday, the Daily
Caller revealed that
Google has also enlisted the left-wing nonprofit Southern
Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
to participate in its "trusted flaggers" program. The SPLC
notoriously branded African American presidential candidate and
neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson as an "extremist," while
gaining a reputation for finding
creative ways to
label conservatives as "hate groups" in general.
Another
"trusted flagger" partner is the Anti-Defamation
League (ADL) - which is headed by former Obama Admin aide
Jonathan Greenblatt. Greenblatt previously directed an initiative at
the George Soros-financed, far-left Aspen
Institute.
Jonathan
Greenblatt, CEO of the ADL
While
YouTube is a private subsidiary of Google (which is a subsidiary of
Alphabet) and can therefore choose how they enforce their "bullying
and harassment" policies, some have wondered if there's a
legal case to be made for the growing number of conservatives
who are now deprived of a source of income due to their divergent
beliefs, secondly, will Google lose a sizable portion of conservative
users in retaliation, and finally, what happens when ideological
(and/or shareholder) winds change - for whatever reason - and it is
liberal accounts that are shuttered next.
Here is Dr.Corsi today
Because I hate political censorship....here are the two videos Dr. Corsi received strikes for. Of course he is punished for the truth and not for the lies he propagates (e.g.. Julian Assange free in Switzerland)
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