Last June YouTube demonetized conservative commentator Steven Crowder after then-Vox writer Carlos Maza called the website out for failing to enforce its anti-harassment policies against him. Now YouTube has quietly reenabled Crowder's monetization,black cock videos allowing him to resume earning income from a channel spreading dangerous misinformation such as "Obama Funded China's COVID-Leaking Lab."
"Demonetizing was already insufficient, but this decision proves that YouTube has no real interest in enforcing it's [sic] anti-hate policies," Maza tweeted on Wednesday. Maza left Voxto be a full-time YouTuber in January, and has been a vocal critic of YouTube's laissez-faire approach to moderating hate speech.
"YouTube has a tremendous profit incentive to keep hate speech on the platform," he continued. "Hate performs well and drives up the company's numbers. It has never had any interest in enforcing its rules, and uses them solely to distract journalists."
Crowder's videos repeatedly targeted Maza for years, making disparaging comments about the writer's sexuality and ethnicity. Incredibly, YouTube maintained these videos did not violate its policies, though it did eventually demonetize Crowder's channel. Yet not even that slap on the wrist is sticking.
SEE ALSO: YouTube won't take action on videos that target a reporter's race and sexualityIn a statement to Mashable, a YouTube spokesperson acknowledged it had reinstated Crowder to the YouTube Partner Program on Wednesday "after careful consideration."
"Steven Crowder was suspended from the YouTube Partner Program (YPP) for harassing a fellow creator and harming the YouTube community," said the spokesperson. "This incident exposed gaps in our Community Guidelines, so last December we updated our policies to better address patterns of harassing behavior and our work here is ongoing.
"Separately, Mr. Crowder has also taken steps to address the behavior that led to his suspension and has demonstrated a track record of policy-compliant behavior."
Specifically, the videos targeting Maza have been removed while pinkie promising YouTube he'll never to do it again.
Crowder's channel is still spreading harmful coronavirus theories and claims Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization, of course. But YouTube noted he couldn't earn ad revenue for over a year, which it considers a significant penalty.
"[People like Crowder] make millions off of selling merch, doing speaking gigs, and getting their followers to support them on Patreon," said Maza in a now-deleted tweetlast year. "The ad revenue isn't the problem. It's the platform."
YouTube's spokesperson told Mashable not all Crowder's videos will have ads on them, and that each individual upload must comply with its ad-friendly guidelines to be eligible for monetization. His video making allegations against Black Lives Matter is one such exception.
Even so, this is a bit like letting a bunch of feral bobcats live with you as long as they promise to use the litter box. It doesn't matter if you clean it regularly — your apartment still stinks.
UPDATE: Aug. 17, 2020, 2:29 p.m. EDT In a statement to Mashable, Crowder disputes our claim that he promotes coronavirus conspiracy theories. He says, "I believe the virus is a real thing and I believe the death rates have been grossly exaggerated." Crowder argues that his belief regarding misreported death rates is not necessarily because of any "conspiracy," and we have amended the text to reflect this. (It is worth noting that theories — conspiracy or otherwise — regarding inflated death toll numbers have been widely debunked.)
Regarding Crowder's claims that Black Lives Matter is a "terrorist organization," Crowder takes issue with Mashable’s assessment that his opinion is "false." We have updated the text to reflect that an opinion itself cannot be true or false, though Crowder's opinion is one with which we strongly disagree.
UPDATE: Aug. 17, 2020, 2:42 p.m. EDT Correction: While “Carlos Maza is a f*g” t-shirts exist, we cannot find any record of Crowder's involvement in their sale. We have removed any information to the contrary.
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