YouTube Moves to Ban Nerd Reich Podcast
It’s official: This morning, YouTube announced it will delete The Nerd Reich podcast next week—the same week my book comes out.
YouTube’s reasons are silly. Over the last few weeks, someone has targeted the Nerd Reich channel with a campaign of false and frivolous complaints. After 1.5 years on YouTube with no problems, we’re suddenly being hit with multiple, almost-daily complaints—just in time for my book launch this Tuesday.
And YouTube’s ridiculous policy is to delete our videos—and now our channel.
We’ve fought back against these false complaints, but the sheer volume is overwhelming. Someone is obsessed with deleting our channel. YouTube is playing along.
This follows a familiar pattern.
When Elon Musk bought Twitter, I was banned for eight months. Last year, Facebook banned The Nerd Reich newsletter from being posted there (a policy they reversed after media attention). In April, Musk permanently banned me from X for posting about fascism. And now, our YouTube channel—with 26,000 subscribers—will be disabled just in time for my book launch.
It’s great publicity! But I’d rather have the channel, which reaches a global audience with videos that have received 818,000 views so far. In fact, our number of YouTube subscribers is larger than our number of newsletter subscribers.
One way or another, we’ll persevere. But it’s clear that someone is very upset about my work, and they have succeeded in deplatforming me from YouTube.
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My Interview on KQED Political Breakdown
“We can have billionaires or we can have democracy. We cannot have both. The billionaires see a future without us, so we have to start imagining a future without them.”
This week, I joined Marisa Lagos of KQED to discuss the billionaire war on democracy. Click below to watch our conversation on PBS.
Click here for audio-only version on KQED.
