You’ll never satisfy these guys.
Earlier this week, YouTube gave an inch to the Online Right by announcing a plan to offer a chance at reinstatement to users who were previously banned from the platform for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 presidential election. Today, the Online Right took a mile by hammering YouTube for almost immediately terminating new accounts created by the previously banned Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes.
Jones, a conspiracy theorist who still owes the families of the victims of the Sandy Hook shooting $1.3 billion after claiming it was a hoax, and Fuentes, a Christian nationalist and white supremacist who has denied the validity of the Holocaust, both reportedly created new accounts on YouTube after Republican Representative Jim Jordan released a letter from parent company Alphabet stating that the platform will “provide an opportunity for all creators to rejoin the platform” if they were removed for violating content policies that are no longer in effect. Both figures quickly had their new accounts terminated. That caused a fervor in the Online Right, who probably don’t even actually need Jones or Fuentes to appear on YouTube but do want to force the company to continue to engage in the humiliation ritual that it invited upon itself.
YouTube previously said that the reinstatement process would be part of a “limited pilot project” that has not been launched yet. It reiterated that on Thursday, stating, “We’ve seen some previously terminated creators try to start new channels.
