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Steven Crowder passes 90,000 live viewers on Rumble after YouTube censorship

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Conservative commentator Steven Crowderโ€™s first live stream since he was given a one-week suspension by YouTube has become one of the most popular streams on video sharing platform Rumble and passed 90,000 concurrent live viewers.

YouTube gave Crowderโ€™s channel a strike and a one week suspension yesterday after his video titled โ€œWe Have Updates on the Trump Raid + Guest: Kari Lakeโ€ was flagged and removed for violating the tech giantโ€™s far-reaching โ€œmisinformationโ€ rules.

This strike was the latest of many that YouTube has issued against Crowderโ€™s channel under its sweeping censorship rules.

โ€œThis really isnโ€™t about the fact that weโ€™ve been suspended again,โ€ Crowder said. โ€œItโ€™s that the show was suspended from YouTube and the policy says โ€˜we think it may have violated the policies,โ€™ didnโ€™t tell us exactly where but inferred that itโ€™s because of someone we had on the show, Kari Lake, likely the future governor of Arizona.โ€

He added: โ€œThis is the first time that I know of where a current gubernatorial candidate was banned, was suspendedโ€ฆfor something they said about an election in which they are currently running.โ€

YouTube infamously started restricting what creators are allowed to say about elections after the US Capitol riots last year. YouTube has also used other rules to censor several politicians and political candidates, including former President Trump, Senator Rand Paul, and Senator Ron Johnson.

While Crowder is blocked from live streaming on YouTube for the next two weeks, heโ€™s still streaming his โ€œLouder With Crowderโ€ show on Rumble, Blaze TV, and his MugClub subscription platform.

Rumble responded to Crowderโ€™s suspension suspension by stating: โ€œWe have his back.โ€

Before Crowder went live for the first time since yesterdayโ€™s YouTube suspension, Rumble urged its users to โ€œshow YouTube that Rumble will have more concurrents viewers on a single stream than any stream on their platform.โ€

And after Crowder went live today, his Rumble live stream was a huge hit. At one point, it had over 91,000 concurrent live viewers and it maintained over 80,000 concurrent live viewers for most of the stream.

โ€œ#CrowderOnRumble is proving to the world YouTube needs him, and he doesnโ€™t need YouTube,โ€ Rumble tweeted.

Lake, who appeared for a followup interview on todayโ€™s Louder with Crowder show after her appearance on yesterdayโ€™s show was censored by YouTube, blasted YouTube and said itโ€™s โ€œfull of pro-censorship snowflakes.โ€

She also denounced censorship and noted that โ€œRumble is great.โ€

Crowder joined Rumble last year after facing persistent censorship and demonetization on YouTube. At the time, he praised Rumble for not censoring his content.

The popularity of Crowderโ€™s most recent live stream on Rumble reflects users increasingly embracing free speech platforms such as Rumble as YouTube continues to censor. Rumble has consistently set new traffic and user engagement level records over the last year and most recently set a new active user record in Q2 2022 with 76% year-on-year growth.

As YouTube has increased its censorship, Rumble has committed to allowing creators to speak freely and it recently published โ€œopen-sourceโ€ free speech rules.

The free speech video sharing platform has also been steadily building out its live streaming features. It introduced free unlimited live streaming for creators this week and enabled ad monetization for live streams on the web earlier this month.

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