The video-sharing website YouTube on Wednesday permanently banned conservative commentator Dan Bongino from the platform, alleging that the commentator attempted to avoid a previous punishment.
He posted a video to his primary YouTube channel, while his other channel, which largely contained short snippets from his digital radio show, was actively suspended for breaking YouTube’s COVID-19 disinformation policy, according to the network.
Hill reported that a YouTube spokeswoman stated that “when a channel receives a strike, it is against our Terms of Service to post content or utilize another channel to avoid the ban.”
It was announced by the platform that both of Bongino’s channels had been terminated and that he would not be able to create a new one in the future.
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A spokeswoman for YouTube stated that any attempts to create additional channels “connected with his name” will be blocked as well, the spokesperson.
A video broadcast earlier this week by Bongino revealed that he was already going to leave YouTube and his roughly 900,000 subscribers on his primary channel and that he would be doing so permanently.
Although he had earlier stated that he would do the same with Twitter in response to his false claims of anti-conservative bias on the social media network, Trump eventually returned to the service.
Despite his departure from YouTube, Bongino is likely to continue publishing his films on Rumble, a YouTube competitor championed by those on the far-right and in which he was a founder.
Rumble subscribers are over 2 million for “The Dan Bongino Show,” a channel that publishes full episodes of his weekday show and has over 2 million subscribers.
Its popularity has recently risen, with over 30 million monthly viewers in the first quarter of 2021, up from fewer than 2 million in the fall of 2020, according to data from Nielsen.
Former President Trump, whose new media venture TRUTH Social announced a deal with Rumble last month, as well as politicians like as Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), who stated he would be joining the site after being suspended from YouTube, has all shown support for the platform.
