YouTube has suspended ads on the channel belonging to far-right British activist and political advisor Tommy Robinson, citing violations of its advertising policies.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (he also goes by a handful of other aliases), is an advisor to the leader of the notoriously pro-Brexit and anti-Muslim political organization U.K. Independence Party (Ukip). On his YouTube channel, where he has 271,000 subscribers and has garnered 14.5 million views, the 36-year-old regularly posts content supporting veterans in between videos where he evokes common conservative talking points, decrying the rise of “fake news” and arguing against people “submit[ing] to Islam through political correctness.”
However, where Robinson appears to have crossed YouTube’s line is in his 2018 recap video, which includes footage he claims shows him punching a migrant in Italy. In the video, he also alleges there is a “rape jihad phenomenon” in “pretty much [...] every major...
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon (he also goes by a handful of other aliases), is an advisor to the leader of the notoriously pro-Brexit and anti-Muslim political organization U.K. Independence Party (Ukip). On his YouTube channel, where he has 271,000 subscribers and has garnered 14.5 million views, the 36-year-old regularly posts content supporting veterans in between videos where he evokes common conservative talking points, decrying the rise of “fake news” and arguing against people “submit[ing] to Islam through political correctness.”
However, where Robinson appears to have crossed YouTube’s line is in his 2018 recap video, which includes footage he claims shows him punching a migrant in Italy. In the video, he also alleges there is a “rape jihad phenomenon” in “pretty much [...] every major...
- 1/17/2019
- by James Loke Hale
- Tubefilter.com
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