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It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch! Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism. They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work. Buy the book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

I'm not even that big a deal on social media. I had 30k followers on X. Less than 1000 on Facebook. Only 26,000 on YouTube. It's kind of flattering that someone is going to such lengths to ban my voice, but it's going to backfire.

what reason did they provide on youtube? X doesn't surprise. youtube kind of does surprise me.

In the past days, there's been a sudden aggressive campaign of fake accounts filing serial false "copyright strike" complaints against the channel. They're obviously frivolous and designed to deplatform, and YouTube is playing along. (I sent an email to the Google media team, etc. They don't care.)

If you get three such complaints, you get deleted. These folks are filing complaints every day. We license our images and assets or get them from creative commons/public domain. But the sheer volume of false complaints has overwhelmed our ability to respond. It's clearly an op of some kind.

Yeah, I know that game. What you're describing. I'm not banned from X but I've been wildly throttled. I assume there's some funny business but I also basically stopped posting there. So I guess it's possible that that has throttled as opposed to being targeted etc.

2/ any way that sucks. I'm sorry about. If I weren't throttled on X I'd try to get their attention.