YouTube came close to removing Stefan Molyneux’s channel with more than 800,000 subscribers after his videos were apparently mass false flagged.
In a statement released on Twitter and retweeted close to 5,000 times, Molyneux explained:
Apparently, I had ‘violated community standards’ by publishing a short video last year entitled ‘The Death of White Males,’ which discussed the decline in life expectancy for white males, in part due to the opioid crisis.
The next day, Wednesday, I awoke to another strike, this time for a discussion I had with UK journalist Katie Hopkins. Now, as I write this, two other Freedomain Radio videos have been set to ‘Private’ by YouTube and locked.
After Team YouTube responded to Molyneux’s tweet saying they would look into it further, the two strikes against Molyneux were removed.
“Good news. The two community guidelines strikes were suddenly removed from my channel and uploading functionality has been restored. For now. Thank you so much to everybody who respectfully messaged YouTube in support of my channel.”
YouTube later reinstated the offending videos and thanked Molyneux for raising the issue.
Mike Cernovich rightly responded to the incident saying, “The new form of communication in America isn’t sharing ideas, it’s spending time shutting down others.”
Thanks for letting us know, we’ll try to get more info and let you know what we find out.
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) August 15, 2018
Good news. The two community guidelines strikes were suddenly removed from my channel and uploading functionality has been restored. For now. Thank you so much to everybody who respectfully messaged YouTube in support of my channel.
Video forthcoming. https://t.co/SUAvangxZB
— Stefan Molyneux (@StefanMolyneux) August 15, 2018
Update: both videos are now reinstated and the strike resolved. Thanks again for raising this!
— Team YouTube (@TeamYouTube) August 15, 2018
Twitter reacts:
So ban the people that are false flagging. Do something constructive. This platform is terrible. Why do you let people false flag. That is the problem
— John doe (@imduditz) August 15, 2018
Things you could do if you disagree with @StefanMolyneux
1) Go on his show and debate him
2) Create your own presentation pointing out invalid conclusions or misinterpreted evidence
3) Flag his account so that it gets bannedWhich of these is the easiest, @TeamYouTube
— HailState McQueen (@RealDgMoney) August 15, 2018
I've been a long time subscriber of Stefan Molyneux, there's absolutely no reason for a ban of his channel, there has been no violation of community standards whatsoever, this was clearly a completely unjustified malicious mass flag attack
— rock barcellos (@rockbarcellos) August 15, 2018
Big channels with massive videos are under target.
It never stops with Alex and it won't stop with Stefan.
People are going to start flagging left wing channels, too.
The new form of communication in America isn't sharing ideas, it's spending time shutting down others. https://t.co/ufRofFhXSE
— Mike Cernovich ?? (@Cernovich) August 15, 2018
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