CNN's Poppy Harlow: Why Hasn't 'Homophobic' Steven Crowder Been De-Platformed?
On Monday morning, New Day aired a portion of an interview between CNN Newsroom anchor Poppy Harlow and Google’s CEO Sundar Pinchai. They discussed e…
CNN's Poppy Harlow: Why Hasn't 'Homophobic' Steven Crowder Been De-Platformed?
On Monday morning, New Day aired a portion of an interview between CNN Newsroom anchor Poppy Harlow and Google’s CEO Sundar Pinchai. They discussed everything from China to data privacy, but Harlow seemed intent to focus on YouTube’s policies on “hate speech.” After the interview concluded, Harlow then turned attention to the videos conservative YouTube comedian Steven Crowder and host of Louder With Crowder, made about Vox journalist Carlos Maza: “Guys, YouTube has taken a lot of heat also for these homophobic videos, specifically ones aimed at this Vox journalist, that are still on, even after the new guidelines. I asked him directly, why is that still there, are you going to take them down? They are in the middle of reviewing their guidelines, again meeting with outside groups and they’re considering it, but they don't know at this point. But I mean, if this is fundamental to their business, they have to make a decision about where that line is between hate and free speech.”
Crowder, who is, again, a comedian, made jokes at the expense of Maza. Maza, upset that someone would dare make fun of him, then led an attempt to get Crowder de-platformed, but he only succeeded in getting Crowder’s channel demonetized. The fact that Crowder was telling jokes about Maza seemed to be entirely lost on Harlow. The anchor was adamant about her stance on censoring free speech. She proclaimed that YouTube has “become our theater.” Equating Crowder’s jokes to the old “yelling fire in a crowded theater” cliché is a lazy and ignorant way to portray the situation to your audience. His jokes aren’t inciting violence.
The media constantly complains about the President assaulting the freedom of the press when he wrongfully refers to them as “the enemy of the people,” but they’re unwilling to stand up for free speech when it is something that they disagree with. When a journalist grills the CEO of a company for not censoring rhetoric that they disagree with, it displays a fundamental problem with the erosion of principles in America’s political class.
NewsBusters: CNN's Harlow: Why Hasn't 'Homophobic' Crowder Been De-Platformed?
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