Right-Wing Social Media Stars Jump On YouTubes Child Exploitation Problem To Claim Personal Victim

[Initech]

Far-right social media personalities are attempting to leverage a controversy over exploitative content on YouTube to further their own narrative of victimization by social media companies.

Earlier this week, YouTube announced that it had deleted 270 accounts, removed hundreds of thousands of videos, closed comment sections of more than 625,000 videos and stripped ads from almost 2 million videos that depicted children being exploited or harmed. The move came after a series of reports that many videos depicting children being tortured, beaten and sexualized were being hosted in YouTube’s kid’s section. The videos had not only been allowed to remain on the site but had been allowed to bring in advertising revenue.

The news coming from YouTube fed into two of right-wing conspiracy theorists’ most prominent narratives: Massive networks of pedophiles are operating in plain sight while corporate media entities are seeking to censor conservative voices.

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In a livestream yesterday, right-wing “Pizzagate” activist and Infowars contributor Jack Posobiec expressed shock that the 2 million videos “somehow got around YouTube monitors” and called “the pedophile rings that are creating these videos” an “atrocity.” But it didn’t take long for Posobiec to pivot to claiming that YouTube censors conservative voices on partisan grounds and that the platform was “protecting pedophiles.”

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Many right-wing extremists are echoing arguments they have been making for months, including advocating for laws that prevent private platforms like YouTube from removing pundits espousing extremist politic beliefs. On extreme-Right internet hotbeds 4chan and 8chan, users have spent the last week celebrating an anticipated downfall of what they call “kiketube” and posting the personal addresses of YouTube employees for targeted harassment.
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These people are fucking obsessed with pedophilia aren't they? Never mind that they are about to elect an ACTUAL PEDOPHILE to the US SENATE!

[lapfog_1]

1. "Clinton runs a pedophile ring out of the basement of a DC pizza place"

nothing like projection with the far right.

EVERYTHING they accuse Democrats and liberals of are things that they DO!

Election fraud... check
pedophiles... check
treason... check
violating the constitution... check

(and the list could be much much longer if I didn't have a migraine this morning).

[anneboleyn]

2. Funny, for all of his commitment, Posobiec isnt worried at all about Roy Moore and Doug Phillips

The two of them co-authored and co-taught on video a course that promotes “Biblical Patriarchy.” This system promulgates the idea that women should first work for their fathers at home and then IF they work as adults their job must be designed to bolster the career of her husband.

Oh, and Doug Phillips was found to be a pedo perv — he was caught molesting a 15 year old girl who was living at his house as a live-in nanny to care for the Moore children. The abuse started when she was fifteen. She also happened to appear in the video for this “course,” explaining how much she liked working for these men and how everything was just dandy.

Where oh where are the pizzagate sleuths over this OBVIOUS ring that included Moore and his penchant for teenage girls and Doug Phillips, who also is of course a rabid evangelical, who molested (started molesting) a 15 year old who worked for his family? Who else knew? Who else was involved? And here I thought the pizzagate sleuths were really dedicated to exposing the “truth” about teen/child molesters?!

[Initech]

3. It's only pedophilia when the left wing does it.

When the right wing does it - they're "victims of liberal media bias".