Journalist Behind Bannings
Tim Pool has confirmed the Chase Paymentech bannings of multiple conservative accounts originated following an email directed to the bank by a Slate “journalist” — April Glaser. Here is Pool’s statement, “I recently received an email leak that I believe shows how activists working as journalists target their political rivals for deplatforming. Following the Vox controversy with Steven Crowder, or #VoxAdpocalypse, and mass censorship hitting YouTube I found it pertinent to show how these activists in media operate and how they use framing devices to target people like conservatives and other political groups.
“The reporter in question has advocated for government regulation to restrict speech and I believe this shows her to be an activist acting to target and cause harm to political rivals.
“The email was confirmed to me by Chase bank on two occasions and the contents of the email were referred to in my correspondence with Slate. While not directly confirming the email I believe this with Chase bank’s confirmation is sufficient to confirm the authenticity of the email.”
UPDATE: Slate has provided an official comment “In the course of her reporting about banks providing financial services for 1776.shop, an e-commerce site associated with the Proud Boys, April reached out to those banks for comment about their policies of providing services to a designated hate group. In both her email and in the subsequent reporting, April provided important context and we stand by her reporting on this newsworthy topic.”
Email leaks show a Slate “journalist” — Karen Glaser — was behind the Chase Paymentech bannings of multiple conservative accounts, including Gavin McInnes’ Proud Boys. The revelation raises a legitimate question: At what point does a journalist stop serving as a journalist and start becoming an activist? If this is standard practice among journalists, why shouldn’t they get their heads busted, the same as political opponents? More from Vincent James of The Red Elephants.
Meanwhile, the mass media keeps getting more brazen in trying to shut down ever voice on YouTube, including individual creators like Philip DeFranco, who is hardly a far right icon. Yet the New York Times pictures him as part of a barrage of images of supposed far right demons on YouTube, including many of the individuals we feature prominently on our pages, from Steven Crowder and Lauren Southern to Milo Yiannopoulos and Gavin McInnes.
What’s becoming apparent? This was never a campaign to just silence conservatives. The New York Times and other old-fashioned print media are just striking hard and fast and flagrantly to kill off their Internet competition. These greedy bastards want to go back to the days when they were the only competition around. More from Tim Pool.
Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio responds to the New York Times article attacking YouTubers for making arguments on the Internet.
Alleged Slate “Journalist” April Glaser
