From UPDATE: YouTube Bans Steven Crowder Until This Convenient Date. Hint: Not Until 2024 Election

by Catherine Salgado

Comedian and podcast host Steven Crowder says that YouTube “essentially” banned him until election day.

Crowder’s channel received strikes on no fewer than eight videos, including one posted in 2023, he announced in videos posted Monday on X. Google-owned YouTube reportedly accused Crowder of committing “harassment and cyberbullying” and “hate speech.” 

Crowder called the censorship “startlingly dark,” and accused Google of “the direct suppression of your vote through misinformation, through censorship, through forbidding you from finding information.”

The videos are related to the 2024 election and include critiques of the legacy media, Google and the Biden-Harris administration. The strikes [were] issued by YouTube on Aug. 2.

A Google spokesman, in response to an inquiry from MRC Free Speech America, made the following statement Thursday [Aug. 8] afternoon: “We removed content from the Steven Crowder channel for violating our Community Guidelines. This resulted in a one week upload restriction. The Steven Crowder channel can continue to upload content to YouTube starting tomorrow.”