Steven Crowder Ruins YouTube For Everyone

Right wing “comedian” Steven Crowder has been in the spotlight this week, and not for good reasons. His attacks on Vox reporter Carlos Maza have prompted YouTube to FINALLY step in and demonetize Crowder’s YouTube channel, at least temporarily. But the problem is that plenty of other channels have now been caught in the crossfire, including left wing channels who call out right wing hypocrisy and hate. This isn’t fair, but it also isn’t a sustainable business model for progressives. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses how we fight this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

So in case you've been living inside of a bubble for the last week, uh, you obviously know about the ongoing saga with the Youtube ad apocalypse. Uh, I guess 3.0 is what we're on right now. And it all started with failed rightwing comedian Steven Crowder. See for a very long time, Mr Crowder has been attacking a particular Vox reporter by the name of Carlos Maza, uh, using gay slurs against him selling shirts with gay slurs on them generally being a horrible piece of crap human being. That's what Steven Crowder has been doing. And he finally got called on it. Carlos Maza went out there for several days on Twitter, calling out youtube for doing nothing about the fact that Steven Crowder was harassing him repeatedly in his videos that he was making a lot of money off of. We'll finally, Youtube did what youtube does best and overreacted to the entire situation. Yes, they demonetize Steven Crowder's channel, which he 100% deserves, although technically this is not a permanent demonetization.

And he is able to get monetization back on his channel if, of course he stopped selling the shirt, stops linking to the shirts and stop saying all of the horrible things that have actually made him popular, which he likely won't do. But in the crossfire, Youtube, as I pointed out, overreacted. So they're just starting to demonetize everybody once again. And the problem with this is that you have a lot of great, great voices on the left. People who call out Republican hate, Republican hypocrisy, endless wars, unjustifiable wars, all of those people are now also being demonetized because apparently those are topics for also not allowed to discuss on youtube. And to be honest, a lot of that has been going on for a long time. Uh, we, for example, if we do a video, if you mentioned racism, terrorism, hell, if you mentioned the opioid crisis, if you mentioned Syria or Yemen or Saudi Arabia, guess what?

You're going to get demonetized and I'm willing to bet that just by saying those words right now, this video will likely end up being demonetized. But again, you've got people who basically depend on this for their livelihood out there calling out right wing hate and hypocrisy and their videos are being demonetized. Their channels are being demonetized and that's not fair to them. You know, this algorithm has swept them up even though they're not promoting these horrible ideas, they're calling it out, they deserve better. Steven Crowder, on the other hand, 100% deserves to be demonetized and to go ahead and counter the argument. No, nobody is censoring him. Nobody has said Steven Crowder, we're deleting your channel. He is still allowed to put in his hate filled videos all day, every day. He hasn't been silenced in any way. It's just youtube saying you're not going to be able to profit off of your hatred. We all have a right to free speech, right, but none of us nowhere in any law in this country is it written that we have a right to profit off hateful speech. And that's what Steven Crowder is starting to realize and I think that's a lot of people in this country need to realize about this. Yeah, we have freedom of speech. We don't have freedom to profit off of that speech regardless of what that speech is. But there in lies.

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