YouTube Bans Right-Wing Commentator Black Pigeon Speaks With Half Million Subscribers & No Strikes

Chris Menahan
InformationLiberation
Jun. 13, 2019

Google-owned YouTube forged onward in their quest to purge all right-wing influencers in advance of the 2020 election by banning popular commentator Black Pigeon Speaks, who had nearly 500,000 subscribers and "no strikes" against his channel.

Black Pigeon Speaks said on Twitter Thursday morning that he woke up to his channel "being deleted."

"It was fully monetized, was in GOOD STANDING, had NO STRIKES and 95-99% like ratio and with almost 500k subscribers," he said. "I follow the rules carefully and have not broken any [of] them."

@TeamYouTube @KEEMSTAR @Timcast woke up to my channel being deleted. It was fully monetized, was in GOOD STANDING, had NO STRIKES and 95-99% like ratio and with almost 500k subscribers. I follow the rules carefully and have not broken any them. Is this a mistake?
— BPS (@navyhato) June 13, 2019

Black Pigeon Speaks, who had a YouTube channel with approximately half a million subscribers, has been permanently BANNED by YouTube. @navyhato pic.twitter.com/5oceiJfaiv
— Brittany Pettibone (@BrittPettibone) June 13, 2019

Despite having no strikes, his page currently says: "This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy prohibiting hate speech."

I feel like this is one of those free speech things. I just reviewed 3 of @navyhato 's videos that where uploaded to another site that a fellow reporter linked me. In those 3 videos i watched i did not see the TOS being broken. I think this was probably a mistake.
— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) June 13, 2019

Black Pigeon Speaks' last video before he was banned criticized unaccountable "tech monopolies" for "relentlessly, pathologically and ruthlessly" silencing people who don't share their "ideals."

The day after Black Pigeon Speaks made a video warning that independent voices were being "silenced - relentlessly, pathologically and ruthlessly" by Silicon Valley, he is banned by YouTube for no reason.

They're taking the piss at this point.https://t.co/9x0gucapuN
— Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) June 13, 2019

Black Pigeon Speaks is one of the many right-wing influencers listed in the Soros/US government-funded "Data and Society" propaganda report, most of whom have already been either banned, demonetized or algorithmically suppressed.

YouTube last week announced they were going to purge "thousands of videos and channels" for advocating "bigoted ideologies" and began immediately.

The Anti-Defamation League praised YouTube's censorship purge and said they're working together with YouTube and other tech companies "to aggressively counter hate on their platforms" and this "important step forward ... must be followed by many more."

Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to slander.

Freedom of expression does not mean freedom to incite violence against Jews or other minorities.

More needs to be done to keep #hate off their platform, but this a step in the right direction for @YouTube. https://t.co/hi000cHDHw
— Jonathan Greenblatt (@JGreenblattADL) June 5, 2019

UPDATE: Black Pigeon Speaks' channel was amazingly restored.

I would like to say thank you to everyone that helped support me over the last 12 hours.
My channel is back up. Much thanks to everyone. The channel continues, but please still subscribe to me at Bitchute. https://t.co/IdumPdGKps
— BPS (@navyhato) June 14, 2019

Hopefully, he'll start archiving everything because who knows how long this will last.

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