Surprise surprise, YouTube bans another super popular channel, one that was providing philosophy, reason, and common sense arguments advocating for liberty and a non-coercive civilization. Molyneux rightly calls his program the largest online philosophy show in the world, and consequently, in history. This was a YouTube channel that had nearly a million subscribers, actually I think more – well I guess we can’t know the exact figure thanks to YouTube’s sudden eviction of the channel! Of course, they call Molyneux and others they ban like Gavin McInnes, Lara Loomer, and David Icke far-right, racist, white supremacist, bad-faith peddlers of fake news, or some combination of the above, when none of those ad hominem attacks have any basis in reality. If they were true, why not put out videos exposing and explaining the wicked nature of their content? Perhaps because no such content can be either convincingly or truthfully made – wouldn’t it have otherwise been made?
But on that note, upon searching Stefan Molyneux in YouTube now, it takes a lot of scrolling down to find any videos bashing him, probably due to his channel’s immense popularity. There is this, however. Although this video is quite dated, it is nonetheless putting out false content about Molyneux running a cult. There is no evidence for such a strong accusation, nor does the channel owner, The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder, give Molyneux the chance to debate Sam and oppose the claim. It almost comes off as a bad faith smear attempt against Molyneux, something YouTube claims, and apparently falsely so, to be against. In accordance with YouTube’s pretentiously compassionate campaign to eliminate harmful or fake news, subjectively measured by their team full of left-wing and socialist bias, that video should also get banned for being producing false and harmful content. Even if its dated, YouTube had no qualms about deleting Molyneux’s dated videos, much like they’ve done with all channels they’ve banned. To be clear, this author is not advocating for the removal of that video or channel – the public should be able to view and judge for themselves, as they have by the low popularity of the video via more dislikes than likes.
Or take this video, that inaccurately smears libertarians who lack sympathy for the poor. This video is harmful and full of false content, yet YouTube doesn’t ban it. Furthermore, the video portrays libertarians as void of compassion for children who grow up under abusive and unloving parents. Molyneux, a staunch libertarian, has made an immense library of videos advocating peaceful parenting, and why abusive parenting is antithetical to libertarian values. Thanks to YouTube, the world has been deprived of such knowledge and education, things it desperately needs. He was essentially providing free, valuable education, which YouTube has now deprived the world – this is evidence that YouTube neither truly cares about free education nor about providing resources to enable people to easily educate themselves by allowing Molyneux’s channel to have a platform. Additionally, all of this makes it very clear that YouTube does not truly care about removing truly false or harmful videos, at least not all of them, just ones that happen to be promoting liberty, non-coercion, and libertarian/conservative values, which sadly are in dangerous decline in America.
As Peter Schiff points out, Wikipedia puts out blatantly false and extremely harmful material about Molyneux. Calling him a white supremacist, racist, peddler of conspiracy theories are among some false judgements on him. Hardly any evidence aside from quotes taken way out of context are provided to validate or defend Wikipedia’s biased and inappropriate attacks on Molyneux. So much for Wikipedia being unbiased and trustworthy. Better think twice about trusting Wikipedia, especially on material connected to advocating liberty and saving civilization from repeating the fall of the Roman Empire!
It is true that they all sometimes put out wrong or disagreeable content in their videos, as do nearly all YouTube commentators, but nothing that ever incited violence or harm to anyone else’s liberties. If people are offended and repulsed by any videos, nobody is coercing them to watch those videos. There is such a thing as clicking away – clearly, YouTube does not respect the audiences capacity to avoid videos it finds unpleasant.
As some of you may note, his channel is one of my recommended sites. Because of YouTube’s censorship, the link has been changed from the YouTube link to BitChute, a better platform that does not censor but sadly lacks the resources of the big mega corporation YouTube, a.k.a. Google which has been caught trying to rig elections in favor of the Democratic Party, censoring channels arbitrarily, and building a search engine for the authoritarian, murderous, communist Chinese regime to censor content the Chinese government disagrees with it, which means any opposition.
It can truly be said that YouTube is no longer a neutral platform, but rather a leftist biased publisher. And did YouTube even exercise minimal decency by offerring an explanation about why they banned Molyneux – perhaps even a specific community guideline that was violated? Of course not!
Personally, his channel has been life changing in more ways that can be described in words. Whether its understanding economics better than the poor job done by institutional “education”, learning about peaceful parenting, establishing healthy personal relationships, the enlightenment achieved at no personal cost is immensely valuable, beyond what words can be described. It is probably safe to assume that many, many others agree, as per the nearly(probably more than) million subscribers his (former) YouTube channel earned.
Thankfully most of his listeners have probably heard his videos multiple times, but if ever there was a reason to put off watching any videos that are at high-risk of becoming de-platformed soon, YouTube just gave you a big one. It really is a gigantic shame that his older videos, such as those about slavery, immigration, and the welfare state are now gone from YouTube,
It would only be wise to expect YouTube to continue its Salem With Trial style hunt against non-coercive philosophy by continuing to deprive the audience of voices, especially those on the right who many times, promote reason, non-violence, and more liberty.
Ultimately, the almost literally trillion dollar question is: how specifically is the life of western civilization, or any civilization for that matter, better off with Molyneux’s removal from YouTube?
For Molyneux’s channel on BitChute, please go here.