A few days ago, Paul Elam's channel on YouTube was liberated from 6 months' probation over a single comment on one of his videos (he was never told which video, let alone which comment) being flagged as hate speech. The end of probation meant that he could now monetize his channel. Yesterday, he was served a notice that a video on his channel was in violation of community guidelines, and he was put back on probation.

What I find very interesting is that this particular video that was flagged as being in violation was uploaded to my own channel and to John the Other's channel--it was an ad for last Thursday's AVFM radio show. What I find even more interesting is that Paul filed an appeal to YT, then called John and myself, and no more than 8 minutes into the conference call he received a response that YT had reviewed the video and found it to be in violation.

Seriously? When was the last time anyone received a response from a major website within five minutes of sending a request? Normally, it takes hours or even days for an appeal to reach the head of the queue and be reviewed.

What I find even MORE interesting is that avoiceformen's account has been shadowbanned here on reddit, as of today. What's more intriguing is that SuicideBanana's post, alerting r/mr members to the shadowban has been removed. That post had 72 comments last I checked, so it's certainly something the community wants to discuss.

I've been the target of frivolous and false accusations myself--that I violated someone's copyright. Whether this was an attempt to get my docs or simply a way to fuck with me is a matter of speculation.

SuicideBanana's implication was that avoiceformen was shadowbanned for doxxing feminists on their website. This is a red herring.

There is no prohibition on reddit wrt linking material on external sites--even material that doxxes a redditor. We learned this when ViolentAcrez was doxxed on Gawker, and when reddit admins allowed external links to be posted that exposed that user's real name.

Moreover, anyone who stages a public protest where mainstream media are present is exposing themselves to having their real name revealed to the public--either through the efforts of mainstream journalists, or internet investigators. I exposed myself to this very risk in February in Montana, and I did so again at the Walk a Mile in her Shoes event in my city.

Putting your face on camera while speaking to mainstream media means your identity is out there. Especially if you are already a public figure like Danielle Sandhu, former head of the UofT's student's union, and current public mouthpiece for socialist feminism.

I don't know what I'm more disgusted by: YouTube for its blatant queue-jumping dismissal of Paul's appeal over a video I'm hosting on my channel right now, a circumstance that leads me to conclude that the decision was politically rather than rationally made; or the decision of r/mr, the admins or SuicideBanana to delete an entire thread discussing the shadowban that was levelled on the same individual less than 36 hours later.

All of this smacks of a coordinated campaign to cripple Paul Elam, financially and politically, simply because his views are distasteful to the feminist majority and he's more than a bit player in the game of gender politics. It's a hit on his ability to earn income, and his ability to grow his website.

Disgusting. And if the admins have anything to do with it, they could use a goddamn spanking.

EDIT: Wow. Moments before I wrote this post, I went and clicked in my viewing history the SuicideBanana post and it was gone, "page does not exist", and yet miracle of miracles, minutes after I post this, somehow that post is resurrected. It's as if the angels have spoken or something.

EDIT2: Okay, I think I fucked up as far as SB's post being removed. I searched for it down three pages, and it wasn't there, and then went into my viewing history and it came up as not there--but the post linked to avoiceformen's user page. The comments in that thread still exist. My bad. Jumped the gun, given the fact that the YT attack and the reddit shadowban occurred within about a day of each other.