The Deprogram Podcast

Posting it here for future readers, since the channel is going to get axed:

Spooky Scary Socialist is over.

On January 15th, YouTube notified me that my second channel, dedicated to livestreaming, had been removed for violating its policy on violent organizations.

I was further surprised to learn that when a channel is terminated, all related channels will be subsequently terminated. Thus, my main channel which existed a number of years before the second channel, is slated for deletion.

I have already appealed the second channel’s termination, which was rejected in less than an hour. There is no further recourse given by YouTube to avoid termination, so my main channel is to be removed in the coming days or weeks.

I maintain and will maintain that the second channel’s termination is unfair, as the “violent organization” I discussed was in an educational context. Providing an overview of the news, academic scholarship, or polling about a "violent organization" should not be (and is not) a violation of the community guidelines. However, it seems that any discussion of Palestinian Resistance that doesn’t start and end with condemnation is a bannable offense on YouTube.

So, for now, Spooky Scary Socialist is over.

As I have always said, it is a risk to unapologetically speak out about the Palestinian Resistance. But the risks and consequences we face as content creators is infinitesimally smaller than the risks and consequences faced by Palestinian freedom fighters running up to and halting Zionist tanks of genocide. I will never condemn Palestinian orphans who grew up and choose the path of resistance.

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Thank you to everyone who supported and watched my content over the years. It’s been an honor. The channel will stay up until YouTube terminates it in the coming days or weeks.

🫡Spooky Scary Socialist

Evidence of the benefits of their work from the comments (never think educating doesn't matter):

You’re the person who introduced me to socialism. I could not be here without you. Farewell.

Absolutely same! I was like "sure let's listen to the other side, lol, gonna be dumb i bet" and then "wait shit this sounds logical and scientific... i guess i'll have to go in deeper in the rabbit hole to see if they can fully actually convince me", and not much later I was a socialist.

Your "Debunking Every Anti-Communist Argument Ever" reached me at just the right time in 2020. I'd read the Communist Manifesto, but only to dunk on it. 6 years later and I've read and watched so much more and consider myself a Marxist-Leninist. Thank you. ❤

I used to be just a vaguely anti-capitalist progressive, wary of "le scary gommunism". It wasn't until I encountered your debunking video 5 years ago, that I started interrogating more imperialist and Western chauvinist narratives. Being from the global south, I now take a more 3rd-worldist decolonial leaning.
I thank you for setting me on a journey that changed my life forever.

Also, fuck youtube's trash "moderation." It's clear to me from everything I've heard from creators on there that it's largely automated at this point. This is a good illustration of it:

I have already appealed the second channel’s termination, which was rejected in less than an hour.

There is no way they are that fast with real people making an actual judgment of a whole channel. That's not to say there wouldn't be bias issues still if it was people doing it, but it'd be harder for them to justify such sweeping bullshit that wipes away years of history on a whim.

Edit: fixing copy/pasted links that got cut off