YouTube Boots White Supremacist Richard Spencer, Far-Right Personality Stefan Molyneux for Spewing H [View all]
Source: The Daily Beast
The crackdown also includes white nationalist group American Renaissance, ex-Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, and NPI/Radix, an organization founded by Spencer.
YouTube banned several prominent far-right figures from its platform on Monday, including white nationalist leader Richard Spencer and right-wing internet personality Stefan Molyneux.
The bans also include two accounts associated with white nationalist group American Renaissance, former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke, and NPI/Radix, an organization founded by Spencer. The crackdown comes after YouTube pushed other white nationalists off its platform earlier this year.
The banned accounts repeatedly broke YouTube rules against alleging that certain groups are inherently worse than others, according to YouTube.
“We have strict policies prohibiting hate speech on YouTube, and terminate any channel that repeatedly or egregiously violates those policies,” a YouTube spokesperson said in a statement. “After updating our guidelines to better address supremacist content, we saw a 5x spike in video removals and have terminated over 25,000 channels for violating our hate speech policies.”
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