Back on December 1st, 2019 Owen Benjamin made a video indicating that an insider at Google had leaked some information to certain channels that on December 10th, 2019 they would be purging more channels from the platform. On that list was Owen Benjamin, who was going to have his channel terminated on that date… well, the termination came early and his channel has been nuked from YouTube.
If you attempt to watch any of the videos from the Owen Benjamin channel, or check any of the YouTube playlists, the videos now show the following error message.
The channel had more than 273,000 subscribers and more than 15.7 million views since opening back in February of 2011, according to Social Blade.
The channel is now dead, just as Benjamin said it would be in the video he posted up on December 1st.
If you attempt to visit the channel link directly you’re met with the following message.
The second channel, Cave Bear Clips, is still active and currently has 20,000 subscribers but YouTube obviously doesn’t feel that’s a threat at the moment.
Apparently the Cave Bear Clips didn’t count as “borderline content”, which is basically what YouTube is targeting at the moment as far as censorship and suppression is concerned.
There’s something rotten when so-called borderline content is not transparently defined so we cannot even verify what exactly it is but youtube must have this information because it is publishing precisely how much of that content it has identified https://t.co/DyPfzBLYy7
— BitChute (@bitchute) December 7, 2019
Benjamin was already prepared for the inevitable, though.
He has his videos and content and subscribers currently active over on Unauthorized.tv, while he’s selling merchandise on UnberableMerchandise.com.
It isn’t going to end here, though.
As Gavin McInnes already pointed out, there are lots of other channels on the list that will be hit come December 10th, but not Steven Crowder.
Benjamin did a video before his channel went down, which was re-uploaded by other users, where he talks about the potential consequences of YouTube’s actions, and how this will cause a lot more people to wake up to their shenanigans.
Truth be told, I don’t think the Centrists™ will wake up until it hits much closer to home. Many people on Twitter and Facebook will justify Benjamin’s ban, or make excuses using flimsy weasel phrases like “He was off the deep end” or “He went crazy. That’s why he was banned”, instead of looking at the fact that Benjamin didn’t violate any of YouTube’s rules as far the reports are concerned.
Nevertheless, keep your eyes peeled on what’s going to go down when December 10th drops and if some of your favorite non-Lefty leaning channels happen to make the cut.
(Thanks for the news tip anon)
