The YouTube channel of the polemicist Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala, used to the courts and condemned several times for his anti-Semitic statements, was deleted by the streaming giant, we learned this Tuesday from Google France. Its page, which had around 400,000 subscribers, has disappeared in the past hours after a decision by Google, the parent company of YouTube.
UNBELIEVABLE ! Dieudonné's YouTube channel has been suspended!
Champagne! pic.twitter.com/mZsetxwGmW
"This deletion follows repeated [offenses] to our YouTube community regulations," explained to Google France, who recalls that the online video platform "has tightened its regulations on hate speech ( hate speech , editor's note) in June of last year ", and has just suppressed several chains of white supremacists in the United States.
A “major advance”
The disappearance of the Dieudonne channel has been welcomed by the Union of Jewish Students of France (UEJF), which has reported "dozens of videos" of the polemicist to YouTube in recent months.
"This closure follows the action of the UEJF and its anti-racist partners who have been fighting for years, day by day, the spread of the racist, anti-Semitic and negationist ideas of the pseudo-humorist," rejoiced the organization on Twitter.
After years of pouring out his hatred without counting, hundreds of racist and anti-Semitic videos, numerous judicial convictions, @MbalaDieudo will no longer pour his venom on @youtube.
Violent and limitless anti-Semitism has no place, on @YouTube or elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/D8KpjJjeP8
"The hundreds of thousands of Dieudonné subscribers are orphaned by their preacher of hatred, and that's good," said the president of the UEJF, Noémie Madar, in welcoming a decision that "marks a major breakthrough in the fight against hate on the Internet ”.
What about Twitter and Facebook?
For her, “the other Internet players no longer have any excuse, Twitter and Facebook should also take responsibility. Networks on which Dieudonné has 150,000 and 1.2 million subscribers respectively.
The polemicist reacted on Facebook by denouncing "Israeli pressures". According to him, the removal of his channel reminds us of "the darkest hours of burning in history".
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A regular in the courts, Dieudonné has been condemned several times by the justice system for his hateful remarks. His last conviction was in November: he had been fined 9,000 euros, for complicity in an anti-Semitic insult, after the publication of a video and a song entitled "C'est mon choaaa".