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YouTube bans Dieudonne's channel

2020-07-01T15:40:59.539Z


The polemicist has repeatedly violated the site's rules against online hatred, Google said.The great sweep of American social networks against extremist content has made its first French victim: Dieudonné. The YouTube channel of the polemicist Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala, accustomed to the courts and condemned several times for his anti-Semitic statements, was deleted by the streaming giant, we learned Tuesday from Google France. The polemist's page, which had around 400,000 subscribers, ha...


The great sweep of American social networks against extremist content has made its first French victim: Dieudonné. The YouTube channel of the polemicist Dieudonné M'Bala M'Bala, accustomed to the courts and condemned several times for his anti-Semitic statements, was deleted by the streaming giant, we learned Tuesday from Google France. The polemist's page, which had around 400,000 subscribers, has disappeared in the past hours after a decision by Google, the parent company of YouTube.

"This deletion follows repeated violations of our YouTube community rules , " said Google France, who recalls that the online video platform "has tightened its rules on" hate speech "(hate speech, editor's note) in June of last year ” , and has just removed several chains of white supremacists in the United States. 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.

25,000 channels deleted in the United States

The removal of the Dieudonné channel is part of a broader YouTube approach. In the United States, the video site has also banned several groups of far-right video creators and white supremacists in recent hours. "After updating our policies to better combat supremacist content, we have seen a fivefold increase in the removal of affected videos and the removal of 25,000 channels," said a YouTube spokesperson quoted by The Verge.

In the United States, following the withdrawal of very large advertisers such as Coca Cola or Unilever, social networks have taken steps in recent days to further moderate the content posted by users. Facebook has somewhat tightened its policy on the matter and Reddit has removed the The_Donald forum.

"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 Facebook. "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 ” .

Several times condemned

For her, "the other internet players now have no excuse for Twitter and Facebook to take responsibility too." Networks on which Dieudonné has respectively 150,000 and 1.2 million subscribers. 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" .

A regular in the courts, Dieudonne 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" .

Source: lefigaro

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