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YouTube Bans Former CRTV Host Gavin McInnes

Hank Berrien

On Monday, YouTube banned Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes, who had almost a quarter-million subscribers on the channel. A statement on McInnes’ YouTube channel’s page said it had been deleted for copyright infringement, according to the Daily Beast.

McInnes had already been banned by various social media platforms; in August, Twitter suspended his account just before a “Unite the Right” rally in Washington, D.C.; at the end of October, Facebook and Twitter banned McInnes and Facebook groups affiliated with the Proud Boys, one day after the Daily Beast reported:

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