Ethan Klein claims \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d are to blame for his YouTube ban YouTube: H3H3 ProductionsEthan Klein of H3H3 Productions has been handed a one-week suspension on YouTube, and has blamed \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d for successfully lobbying the platform to earn him a ban for anti-Semitism. Klein \u2014 who is Jewish himself \u2014 has had frequent disagreements with names all across the internet, especially when stepping into the political ground and discussing global societal issues. During an episode of his Leftovers podcast with Twitch streamer Hasan \u2018HasanAbi\u2019 Piker, Klein said that he \u201chopes Ben [Shapiro] gets gassed first\u201d if there was to be another Holocaust, later claiming that it was a \u201cjoke\u201d against the Daily Wire reporter. After mass appeals from shocked viewers, Klein was handed a one-week suspension from the platform, and took to Twitter to voice his frustration. \u201cA few white supremacists successfully lobbied YouTube to suspend me, a Jewish dual citizen of Israel & USA, for anti-semitism,\u201d he said. \u201cBen Shapiro & friends can virtue signal all they want but ultimately they are the ones platforming dangerous anti-semites. All I did was point it out.\u201d He continued: \u201cThe people reporting me, excepting Ben, are tiki torch-carrying, white Christian nationalists. They do not give a f**k about anti-semitism or Jewish people. They revel in the fact that YouTube and other institutions are so quick to act on bad faith & malicious outrage. \u201cThey are currently the greatest beneficiaries of cancel culture, identity politics, and moral outrage. It\u2019s incredible that they have become the party of \u201cfree speech\u201d while decrying and lobbying for my deplatforming.\u201d Shapiro responded to Klein\u2019s ban, saying that he \u201cdoesn\u2019t believe Ethan Klein should be suspended from YouTube for his awful garbage,\u201d but that he will \u201cshed no tears for a person who has routinely engaged in the cancelation of others.\u201d Klein went on to apologize to fans of the podcast, saying that he \u201chates we\u2019ll miss a week of the show because of another stupid joke,\u201d but confirmed that another episode will go live on Friday, October 28 for Halloween.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ethan Klein claims \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d are to blame for his YouTube ban YouTube: H3H3 ProductionsEthan Klein of H3H3 Productions has been handed a one-week suspension on YouTube, and has blamed \u201cwhite supremacists\u201d for successfully lobbying the platform to earn him a ban for anti-Semitism. Klein \u2014 who is Jewish himself \u2014 has had frequent disagreements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}