YouTube Removes and Reinstates Black Pigeon Speaks Without Reason

If Alex Jones was simply YouTube’s canary in the coal mine, the platform is now outright beating their pigeons to a bloody pulp, nursing them back to their flu-infested health and expecting everyone to act as though nothing ever happened. The people, however, simply aren’t buying YouTube’s games.

Within the span of two days, the far-right’s controversy hawk Black Pigeon Speaks was entirely stripped of his online income and body of work, featuring a myriad of propaganda, plagiarism and his rebranding of white nationalism, which was later reinstated by YouTube and its flip-flopping administrators. When users visited his channel link, his removal was given no explanation outside their assurances that it “violated hate speech policies”, which makes the subsequent reinstatement all the more suspect.

It’s almost inevitable for channels of the reactionary genre to face the chopping block and become reinstated once captured audiences fan the flames of public pressure. When someone has over 500,000 subscribers and no strikes against their channel, being paraded around as some upstanding “vegan dude who rescued pigeons” while holding “moderate…