Phil Shiver
YouTube confirmed to multiple news outlets on Wednesday that it had permanently suspended conservative media personality Dan Bongino [photo] from its platform, claiming he tried to evade a previous suspension.
Photo: Calla Kessler/ The Washington Post |
The Google-owned video-sharing
platform alleged that Bongino uploaded a video to his primary channel while his
secondary channel, which uploads clips from his radio show, was under
suspension for sharing a claim that masks are useless in the fight against the
COVID-19 pandemic.
The claim reportedly violated
YouTube’s COVID-19 misinformation policy — despite the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control recently updating its own guidance on the efficacy, or lack
thereof, of cloth masks. The act of uploading a separate video on an associated
account reportedly violated the platform's Terms of Service.
“When a channel receives a
strike, it is against our Terms of Service to post content or use another channel
to circumvent the suspension,” a YouTube spokesperson told the Hill. The spokesperson added that both of
Bongino's channels had been removed and that any future attempts to make new
channels “associated with his name” would be denied.
Earlier in the week, Bongino
had already announced his plans to leave YouTube for good
over the platform's biased censorship of conservative voices.
In a video titled, “Why I’m
Leaving YouTube,” Bongino allegedly announced all of his future content would
be posted exclusively to Rumble, a pro-free speech competitor to YouTube that
the media personality and Fox News host was an early investor in.
On his website, his team slammed the move, saying, "YouTube attempted a poorly executed 'you can’t break up with me if I break up with you first' approach, and decided to ban Dan from the platform he just left and was never going to post to again.
Bongino had nearly 900,000
subscribers on his primary YouTube channel. But on Rumble, his primary account,
"The Dan Bongino Show," which posts full episodes of his weekday
show, boasts more than 2 million subscribers.
The Hill reported that
Rumble's popularity skyrocketed in the first quarter of 2021, reaching over 30
million monthly viewers.
Earlier this month, after being handed a temporary suspension from YouTube, Bongino wrote an email to the platform, signing off by writing "Respectfully Kiss My A**."
BREAKING 🚨:
— Bongino Report (@BonginoReport) January 14, 2022
YouTube just suspended Dan’s channel for daring to question the mask fascists.
I guess they were waiting for an apology from us. But that’s not quite how it worked out for them. Here’s Dan’s email to “Coco” at YouTube telling them to plant a big wet kiss on his ass pic.twitter.com/4yFeprnr3Y
Phil Shiver, The Blaze, 27-1-2022
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