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Three years ago when my blog was still a business and I was closing in on 1000 subscribers and hoping to monetarizing my thousands of youtube videos I had gone to youtube to check out a Mel Brooks video and saw this on my site:

If you are a regular reader of this blog you can guess what my answer was, but if you don’t remember:

Nothing says “Election 2020 is the most honest election there has ever been” then to ban videos and commentaries that question it.

This is a rather old video but I’ve noted that I’m closing in on 1000 subscribers which means that I can monetize videos there so I suspect the time has come to preemptively start the process to ban me.

I was of course correct and promptly banned by youtube.

Well the following year June (2023) youtube put out an announcement that they were reversing their ban on election 2020 commentary that they disagreed with so I appealed again saying:

I understand that you have now changed your policies on election commentary due to the curbs it made on free speech. As you banned me based three commentaries I made on election 2020 (all of which had under 100 views each) coincidently just as I was about to reach 1000 subscribers, I am asking if my over a decades worth of work including thousands of hours of interviews and reports, covering not only elections local state and national all over the nation but events from CPAC to Pinball festivals to quilt shops to religious gatherings will now be restored.

Let’s see if you actually meant these words:

“In the current environment, we find that while removing this content does curb some misinformation, it could also have the unintended effect of curtailing political speech without meaningfully reducing the risk of violence or other real-world harm.”

I pass the ball to you.

Joe Biden still being in the White House with an election to win apparently the words didn’t mean all that much to wit:

Their answer took less than 30 minutes:

Note they didn’t just review it, they reviewed it CAREFULLY that time and CONFIRMED I violated their guidelines and was thus still banned to keep youtube “safe”.

Well guess what happened this week:

Google Admits Censorship Under Biden; Promises to End Bans of YouTube Accounts of Thousands of Americans Censored for Political Speech

Google also admitted the following to the House Judiciary Committee: 

1. The Biden Administration pressured Google to censor Americans and remove content that did not violate YouTube’s policies.
2. The Biden Administration censorship pressure was “unacceptable and wrong.”
3. Public debate should never come at the expense of relying “authorities.”
4. The company will never use third-party “fact-checkers.”
5. Europe’s censorship laws target American companies and threaten American speech, including the removal of “lawful content.”

These major admissions come after Chairman Jordan’s subpoena to Google and a years long investigation into the company. 

When I saw that I decided to log in and appeal again only I didn’t write a long piece, I just noted this admission and said do you mean it?

Well you’ll never guess what was in my email when I got home from work and checked:

So my channel is back and THIS makes it right?

I lost years worth of views, the monitorization of my channel during an election year where, as the first new media person in history to question Donald Trump at a press conference (twice) could have meant enough income to justify keeping my business, which I had to close at the end of last year, open, not to mention the ability to push my book and podcast and blog through videos and NOW they’re saying I didn’t violate any standards when they IN WRITING said they had carefully reviewed my case and determined I violated rules and made youtube unsafe and now it’s OK?

I think not.

Hey youtube tell you what lawsuits take time although given your admission and previous correspondence I suspect I’d have a pretty good chance of winning so he’s what I’ll do:

This is the Classic Jersey Jack Pinball Machine The Wizard of Oz

And here is the much newer Stern James Bond Pinball Machine Dr. No.

Per pinside the estimated value of a Wizard of Oz is between $8970 – $10430. You can by a new Dr. No for $6995.

I’m a flexible fellow. You give me either one and we’ll call it even.