
YouTube suspended The Blaze show host Steven Crowder’s channel over the weekend following a show in which he supported new Twitter CEO Elon Musk.
In social media updates Saturday, Crowder explained YouTube flagged a video titled “ELON MUSK VISITS TWITTER HQ & LIBS GO INTO FULL MELTDOWN!” on his “Louder with Crowder” channel for violating its policy on “harassment, threats and cyberbullying,” but did not identify the specific violation.
“I’ve been here before, but this one is… very different,” Crowder detailed in an Instagram post.
“YouTube has issued yet ANOTHER hard strike to the channel. No specifics have been provided but they claim that our segment on Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a violation of their deliberately opaque guidelines.”
Crowder’s temporary YouTube suspension comes just days ahead of the midterm elections, which he suspects is the actual reason for his second hard strike. If a channel receives three hard strikes within a 90 day period, the channel is permanently suspended.
“Do you remember the reason for our last strike?” Crowder asked his audience.
“It was due to none other than @karilake pointing to election-related issues for a primary IN WHICH SHE WON!!”
“Look, we are going into an election season. One where, if the scales of media were balanced, conservative Republicans would win in a landslide!” Crowder wrote on Instagram.
“They can’t have that. Make no mistake, there is a reason that these two strikes directly relate to:
⁃ a future governor who has spoken out against big tech
⁃ Support of a man (Musk) whose purchase and plan for a big tech platform would fundamentally allow more free and fair media coverage of elections.”
Crowder also suspects the increased popularity of his channel, which has received nearly “100,000,000 plays/downloads within 30 days,” poses a threat to the powers that be who don’t want him to be able to question establishment narratives.
“Make no mistake, the machine is in full force. They are deathly afraid of you and the tectonic shift which is beginning to take place in our country.”
Crowder says he’ll continue streaming on alternative video platform Rumble until he returns to YouTube on Nov. 21.
Here’s a Rumble version of the Oct. 27, 2022, “Louder with Crowder” episode that got banned by YouTube:
Also, watch Crowder’s most recent interview with Infowars host Alex Jones:
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