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Comedian Steven Crowder Sues YouTube for Silencing Differing Points of View

Screenshot from “Louder with Crowder” on Rumble

Comedian Steven Crowder Sues YouTube for Silencing Differing Points of View

By Movieguide® Staff

Right-leaning comedian Steven Crowder, who amassed 5.7M subscribers on his YouTube channel, will sue the video-sharing company for silencing conservatives through content moderation.

Crowder, best known for his show “Louder With Crowder,” and his attorney Bill Richmond announced the lawsuit after two previous incidents this year resulted in suspensions of his channel.  

“As of last Thursday, May 14, my lawyer Bill Richmond and I have filed a notice of a lawsuit against YouTube and are seeking an injunction to prevent them, to stop them from currently deplatforming us,” Crowder said on his show, which he posted to Rumble. “We’ve officially sent a notice of a lawsuit. Very different level – this is the big one, boys and girls.”

YouTube justified the demonetization of Crowder’s channel by claiming his account spread misinformation about the 2020 election and violated their policy. However, Crowder said that the charges against him were too vague to account for the suspensions.  

The Daily Wire reported

Crowder said the first and second hard strikes against his channel were similarly vague, leaving the host and his attorney guessing at what could have triggered YouTube’s actions. The first strike came over an anniversary video of “15 days to slow the spread.” YouTube claimed that Crowder violated its policy against spreading COVID misinformation.

The second hard strike came over Crowder’s commentary on a police shooting in Columbus, Ohio, in April. An officer shot and killed black teen Ma’Khia Bryant to stop her from stabbing another girl. YouTube accused Crowder of “reveling in or mocking” Bryant’s death. Crowder denied mocking Bryant Monday. Richmond noted that even had Crowder violated the policy, “Louder With Crowder” is a comedy show and, as such, is exempted under YouTube’s policy.

However, Crowder said that the lawsuit is about free speech in a broader sense, not just the censoring of his channel. 

“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.”

“In other words, in that same point in time when we’re talking specifically about the Columbus issue, you can go to Stephen Colbert, you can go to CNN, they’re all uploading at that same time with information that we know to be incorrect,” Crowder continued. “To not allow half the country, half the world ever to correct those mistruths under some misguided and, frankly, not outlined policy … the last thing I want to be doing is doing a lawsuit with Google and YouTube for crying out loud. They could squash my nuts into oblivion.”

Crowder’s attorney, Richmond, said that although much of Crowder’s content is comedic, he addresses relevant issues in today’s culture.  

“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,” Richmond said. “But the reality, this is a comedy show that takes on important issues. Commentary, politics, issues that are facing everyone in every part of the nation and the world, and we have to be able to talk about them.”

Crowder also sued Facebook after the media company removed his 2020 Election stream from their platform. 

“They removed the biggest stream that has ever existed, from the biggest platform that’s ever existed, with no reason,” Crowder told The Daily Wire. 

Crowder is not the only one to experience censorship post the 2020 election. The Christian satire site, The Babylon Bee, was also censored by Facebook after similar accusations of spreading disinformation. 

YouTube has also banned Christian channels including theDove and LifeSiteNews.

Movieguide® previously reported

According to CEO and President of theDove Perry Atkinson, YouTube removed thousands of videos posted to the Christian media network’s channel.  

Atkinson noted that the video-sharing platform took down an estimated 15,600 videos. YouTube had notified theDove that their content violated its Community Guidelines and their channel exceeded the “three strike” limit. 

Moreover, Atkinson said that the frequency of flagged videos increased after the election in November, and in January after the Capitol Hill riot.

“We are dealing with two fairly significant law firms, one in Washington D.C. and one in California, to see if there’s any recourse we may have to retrieve our 15,000 videos,” Atkinson said. “We are looking into three other platforms as to whether or not we can re-establish a way to distribute our videos.”

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What you listen to, watch, and read has power. Movieguide® wants to give you the resources to empower the good and the beautiful. But we can’t do it alone. We need your support.

You can make a difference with as little as $7. It takes only a moment. If you can, consider supporting our ministry with a monthly gift. Thank you.

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