YouTube removes ‘War Room’ podcast of Steve Bannon, purge continues

The Big Tech War in opposition to Donald Trump and his base continues unabated. The newest casualty in that warfare is Steve Bannon. YouTube has pulled down the previous White House chief strategist’s podcast “War Room” following the storming of Capitol Hill.
YouTube claimed that the podcast didn’t adjust to its group tips. “In accordance with our strikes system, we have terminated Steve Bannon’s channel ‘War Room’ and one associated channel for repeatedly violating our Community Guidelines,” it mentioned in a press release.
The assertion continued, “As we said yesterday, any channel posting new videos with misleading content that alleges widespread fraud or errors changed the outcome of the 2020 U.S. Presidential election in violation of our policies will receive a strike, a penalty which temporarily restricts uploading or live-streaming. Channels that receive three strikes in the same 90-day period will be permanently removed from YouTube.”
The podcasts are nonetheless accessible on Bannon’s web site. It is out there there with the be aware, “While YouTube announces broad censorship mandates for any channel discussing the election, Steve Bannon discusses the latest on the coronavirus pandemic and the latest updates on the state of the election.”
Steve Bannon was suspended from Twitter in November after he known as for Anthony Fauci’s head “on pikes”.
Social media platforms have been on a campaign in opposition to Donald Trump and his supporters ever since he was elected president. However, the storming of Capitol Hill seems to have accelerated tendencies that already existed. Numerous deplatformed Trump supporters, and Donald Trump himself, moved to Parler, a substitute for Twitter however Big Tech is making an attempt to close that down as nicely.