You might remember the 2019 controversy when flamboyant gay Vox employee Carlos Maza demanded YouTube remove Steven Crowder, for what he claimed were homophobic attacks.
That attempt mostly flopped. YouTube avoided addressing it, then finally had to after the controversy made national news. They ultimately removed Crowder's monetization but left his channel alone, which was a bizarre solution, since none of this had to do with monetizing.
As a result, they also banned or removed the monetization of a lot of other channels, in what was known as "Adpocalypse 2".
However, Crowder ended up fine, as the additional publicity got him a lot of new viewers, some of whom went on to subscribe to Crowder's "Mug Club", which made him a bunch of extra money.
However, this week the other shoe dropped.
Crowder was suspended for a week from YouTube.
Why? He posted a video where he and his co-hosts went around Nevada and verified that certain voters had completely phony addresses -- meaning addresses of nonexistent places.
This was part of the whole "voter fraud" angle Crowder has been pushing since the election, which honestly I found annoying, and somewhat drove me from his channel. I refused to watch any of that crap. I actually gave it a chance for a few minutes at one point, it was awful and pandering, and I closed it, and vowed to never watch another election fraud video by him.
Anyway, YouTube decided that this was misinformation about election fraud, deleted the video, and banned him for a week.
While I haven't watched that video, I'll concede that Crowder didn't "prove" anything there. Obviously a careful search of the voter rolls will reveal some fraudulent registrations. That by itself doesn't mean widespread voter fraud. Additionally, fake addresses are not necessarily duplicate votes. There are a variety of non-sinister reasons why a person who is eligible to vote might list a fake address.
Still, if the video is as Crowder described, YouTube shouldn't have suspended him. It looks like they probably just decided it was in the "Biden election fraud" vein, and got rid of it. Or perhaps, as Crowder later suggested, they're just trying to get rid of him.
On Tuesday, shortly after getting suspended, Crowder went to his alternate "Crowder Bits" channel, and posted this video explaining everything:
However, that was quickly deleted, as well! The video above is a copy that a Crowder fan grabbed and reposted.
This means that YouTube was obviously watching to see if Crowder would circumvent his suspension by moving to his other channel, and took action when he did.
Laughably, I can't get Crowder's take on this on Twitter, because he was suspended there on March 27. They wouldn't provide him a reason for the suspension.
Sad!
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Originally Posted by Dan Druff
