YouTube’s top brass has booted former CRTV host Gavin McInnes from the platform.
The comedian who hosted “Get Off My Lawn” for CRTV until its deal with Glenn Beck’s BlazeTV has been kicked off YouTube’s property. The development follows identical decisions by Twitter, Facebook, Amazon and PayPal.
“This account has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material the user posted,” a note on the terminated channel reads.
Mr. McInnes, the founder of Proud Boys, has been under fire from critics for months. They often use a hate group designation by Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to claim that members of Proud Boys are tied to white nationalists.
The pundit has disassociated himself from the group, although he maintains that it is not a white nationalist organization.
“I do this reluctantly because I see it as the greatest fraternal organization in the world but rumors and lies and bad journalism has made it’s [sic] way to the court system,” he wrote Nov. 22 regarding fights between his group and left-wing Antifa activists. “NYC9 … are facing serious charges. I’m told by my legal team and law enforcement that this gesture could help alleviate their sentencing. Fine. At the very least, this will show jurors they are not dealing with a gang and there is no head of operations. We are not an extremist group and we do not have ties with white nationalists.”
Mr. McInnes’ YouTube channel had roughly 220,000 subscribers before it was pulled by YouTube, The Daily Beast reported Monday.
Blaze Media no longer has a relationship with Gavin McInnes, and per company policy, cannot comment on personnel matters.
— BlazeTV (@CRTV) December 9, 2018
• Douglas Ernst can be reached at dernst@washingtontimes.com.
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