Conservative commentator and radio talk show host Todd Starnes says YouTube has permanently shut down his account.
In a recent blog post, Starnes explains that he had posted a video of a recent gay pride parade in Seattle. He criticized the event because it featured naked male cyclists “exposing themselves in front of children”.
“Within minutes – my entire YouTube account was terminated. It was the last straw,” he wrote. “YouTube accused me of severe and repeated violations of their community guidelines.”
Starnes provided a message from the media platform that stated: “It’s our job to make sure that YouTube is a safe place for all. If we think a channel severely violates our policies, we take it down to protect other users on the platform – but if you believe we’ve made the wrong call, you can appeal this decision.”
He says he appealed the decision but was denied without explanation.
“YouTube has made a business decision – which is their right,” he explained.
Starnes believes it wasn’t the LGBT parade post that was the biggest problem. He contends YouTube considers his most flagrant violation to be a video he posted of former President Donald Trump. He says the media platform labeled Trump’s remarks misinformation.
And it reportedly wasn’t the first time YouTube had pulled Starnes’ content.
In April, the platform banned a video of Trump reacting to a decision to indict him over the alleged falsification of business records.
“Clearly, they no longer want conservatives to be a part of their community. Or Trump supporters. Or anyone who believes it’s wrong for men to parade around naked in public. Or anyone who holds a view that might offend the progressive fascists who run YouTube these days,” Starnes wrote.
“Honestly, maybe it’s best I got removed from YouTube. I have no interest in being a part of such an intolerant and perverted community,” he added.
CBN News reached out to YouTube for an explanation on why Starnes was canceled, but we did not receive a reply at the time of publication.
As we have reported, Big Tech has been censoring conservative voices for years.
In 2021, YouTube removed all the pro-life content from LifeSiteNews’ page.
And later that year, YouTube removed conservative host, Steven Crowder, from its partner program indefinitely, no longer allowing him to make money from ads running with his videos.
“This really isn’t just about us. We can find ways that we can broadcast to you,” Crowder said. “But this is the world’s most powerful company – arguably, when you look at YouTube, Google, Alphabet – and they make sure that they ghost you where people cannot find, not us, but the point of view.”
Crowder hosts “Louder with Crowder”, a daily political podcast, and has millions of social media followers.
The social media platform removed Crowder’s video containing references to black farmers and slavery. The company said the video violated its COVID-19 misinformation policy and not its policy concerning hate speech, according to HITC.com.
“What YouTube is saying is these ideas are so dangerous that we can’t address them or rebut them, we can’t criticize them, we just have to extinguish the opinions entirely. We have to eradicate these opinions from the planet because we can’t deal with them,” Crowder’s lawyer added.
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