American conservative commentator Matt Walsh has said YouTube has temporarily demonetised his content and threatened to ban him from the platform if he does not “respect the pronouns of trans people.”
The Daily Wire host who has 2.33 million subscribers on the platform, said in a Twitter post that he would rather take his show off YouTube than “cooperate with that nonsense”.
After announcing that he would be making his show, The Matt Walsh Show, available free on Daily Wire+ and Twitter, he said, “If I simply respect the preferred pronouns and stop accurately gendering people, then I can likely continue to do my show on the platform, get it remonetized after a short probationary period, and continue making over $100,000 a month on YouTube ads,”.
He continued, “In other words, all I have to do to keep the money and the platform is give up my integrity and my soul,” adding, “No way”.
“I will not give my show to YouTube if it means I have to cooperate with and affirm the very ideology that I’ve been battling all this time,” he said.
Reacting to a recent hack of his Twitter the father of six said that over the last few years his family has been “harassed, threatened, doxxed,” and now “hacked”, adding that he believed that the hacker had an “insider” who gave him access to his phone.
.@MattWalshBlog on being demonetized on YouTube:
"If I simply respect the preferred pronouns…then I can likely continue to do my show on the platform…I'd rather you kick me off of every platform & banish me to Mars than use someone's preferred pronouns." pic.twitter.com/dgNbPzm7Lf
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) April 20, 2023
Jeremy Boreing, the co-CEO of The Daily Wire who described the company as one of “the last truly free media companies”, said that there has recently been a campaign of attempts at canceling Daily Wire commentators including Walsh, Brett Cooper, and Michael Knowles.
Responding to the news that Walsh had been demonetised he said that, “No investor or board of directors can maneuver us into acquiescing to their demands or expressing their values.”, adding, “We only express our own.”
The Jimmy Kimmel – Jeffrey Epstein connection is deeper than we initially thought. @imbrettcooper breaks down how one of Jimmy’s best friends was in Epstein’s inner circle. pic.twitter.com/g2b584zXLb
— Mythinformed (@MythinformedMKE) March 15, 2023
Commentator Brett Cooper has reportedly received a lifetime ban from Tiktok while Knowles was evacuated from University of Pittsburgh after “violent” protests erupted in response to his attendance on the campus to discuss issues related to transgenderism.
A body dummy with a picture of Michael Knowles’ face on it has been lit on fire, about a half hour before Knowles is set to participate in an event on Pitt’s campus. Knowles said earlier this year that he believes “transgenderism” should be “eradicated.” @WTAE pic.twitter.com/l1k3TrEkDN
— Mike Valente (@ValenteWTAE) April 18, 2023
During the heated protests an effigy of Knowles was burned in the streets.
#Antifa & far-left extremists gathered at the University of Pittsburgh yesterday to try to shut down a @michaeljknowles speaking debate on #trans issues. pic.twitter.com/5eb3wdDcLl
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 19, 2023
Boreing blasted tech giants Youtube, Tiktok, and Facebook for what he described as “capricious” attempts at vexatious “fact-checks, demonetizations, and bans”, against the Daily Wire hosts saying, “YouTube wants to keep Matt Walsh from being able to monetise because they know it will drastically stunt his growth and make his content far less viral. They expect us to throw a fit and play right into their hands. We won’t,”.
After the hack, which Boreing claimed would have revealed twenty years of Walsh’s emails, Wired reporter Dell Cameron had his Twitter account suspended after it emerged that he had used Twitter to knowingly obtain material garnered from the hack.
Dell Cameron, a leftist senior reporter for WIRED, used Twitter to solicit stolen information belonging to @MattWalshBlog, who was hacked last night. pic.twitter.com/wsaOWRmPnc
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 19, 2023
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