YouTube has banned Gavin McInnes, the founder of the right-wing group the Proud Boys, who has also been kicked off of Twitter, Facebook and PayPal, The Daily Beast reports.
The page for the Vice Media co-founder’s YouTube channel shows a message stating: “This account has been terminated because we received multiple third-party claims of copyright infringement regarding material the user posted.”
Last week, Glenn Beck’s The Blaze tweeted that it “no longer has a relationship with Gavin McInnes,” only one week after he joined the network to host a show based on his podcast.
Last month, members of the Proud Boys, self-described “Western Chauvinists” and a designated hate group according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, were arrested for their involvement in an alleged street fight in New York last October.
Around that same time, McInnes was reportedly denied a visa to travel to Australia for a speaking tour next year. ABC said that government officials notified McInnes that his visa had been denied due to “bad character.”
McInnes announced in November that he was leaving the Proud Boys, and denied that they are “an extremist group,” or that they “have ties with white nationalists,” as the SPLC claims.
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