YouTube will regret that

Earlier this week, YouTube gave an inch to online law by announcing a plan to offer a chance of reintegration to users who were previously prohibited from the platform to spread the disinformation on the COVVI-19 pandemic and the presidential election of 2020. Today, online law took a mile by hammering Youtube to have ended the end of new accounts created by the Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes previously prohibited.

Jones, a conspiracy theorist who owes the families of the victims of the sand hook who draws $ 1.3 billion after having said that it was a hoax, and Fuentes, a Christian nationalist and a white supremacist who denied the validity of the holocaust, both created new accounts on you the creators to join the platform ” more in force. The two figures quickly terminated their new accounts. This caused a fervor in online law, which probably does not even need Jones or Fuentes to appear on Youtube but who want to force the company to continue to engage in the ritual of humiliation which he invited to himself.

YouTube previously declared that the reintegration process would be part of a “limited pilot project” which has not yet been launched. He reiterated that Thursday, declaring: “We saw some creators previously licensed trying to start new channels. To clarify, our pilot program on endings is not yet open. ” He even tried to respond directly to the cases of Jones and Fuentes, responding to a viral article on endings to say: “We have ended these channels because it is always against our rules for previously finished users to start new channels – the pilot program for layoffs (which many people referenced this week) will not be available and will be a limited pilot program to start.”

Unfortunately, it is simply not as well as the game is played with influencers on the right. Vivek Ramaswamy seized a tweet on the ban and called him an Un-American to “muzzle the peaceful expression of opinions”. Tim Pool posted on the fact that Alex Jones was prohibited and marked the coat of the Chamber’s Judicial Committee, suggesting that he would like the government forced Youtube to allow Jones back on the platform. Gizmodo contacted the office of the president of the Jim Jordan judicial committee to comment, but did not receive a response at the time of publication.

YouTube confirmed to Gizmodo that the new accounts of Jones and Fuentes had been terminated, explaining: “It is contrary to our community guidelines so that previously finished users use, have or create other YouTube channels.” The creators are also not supposed to allow finished users to get around their ban, but Patrick Bet Interview with David with Nick Fuentes downloaded on Tuesday remains live and received more than 2.2 million views at the time of publication.

YouTube told Gizmodo that he planned to open a way “so that some finished creators start a new channel”, but indicates: “It will not be available for all creators, it will be a limited pilot.” Tented users who are not part of the pilot program will remain inadmissible to create a new channel.

The company said that its pilot will focus on users who have been dismissed for “repeated violations of COVID-19 and elections integrity policies that are no longer in force”, as he indicated in his letter to the Chamber’s Judicial Committee. (The representative Jordan posted on X that Youtube “will offer all the creators previously launched YouTube due to political violations of speech to return to the platform”, but it seems that it may be a bit of a overestimation.) YouTube noted that an additional subset of creators will also be eligible for resettlement through the pilot, but did not provide details that qualified.

Let’s be real: this will inevitably continue for YouTube. When a user is not invited to the pilot program, he will hear the law online. When they choose not to reintegrate a creator for any reason, they will hear the law online. When a restored creator has a video removed because it violates current content policies, they will hear the law online. The company has opened the valves now, and the right will hold a point to keep the business with a promise that it has not technically made, because an “opportunity” to join the platform is not the same as a guarantee, nor an invitation to ignore the rules.