Websites which had embedded the PPSIMMONS God and country videos suddenly went dark. These information and news sites would write paragraphs leading into the video and then the video was supposed to play. All that was seen was "This account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines and/or claims of copyright infringement."
This resulted in severe damage to the credibility of these websites. In fact, youtube offers a service - and now was responsible for denial of this service to hundreds of people around the world. They have the "embed" option on their site for the specific purpose of allowing other websites to tap into the youtube material. Entire news stories were made invalid with this one tragic decision.
You see - PPSIMMONS wasn't your run-of-mill youtube channel where kittens are falling asleep and tumbling off of chairs or babies are shown barfing on their dads. PPSIMMONS was a breaking news site with videos embedded on major media outlet websites around the world. The channel had won numerous "most viewed" awards with 22 thousand subscribers and over 20 million views.
Now a major law firm has agreed to look into representing the PPSIMMONS youtube channel over its removal and possibly seek damages. For more on the timeline of events and the actual video in question see our previous article here. In that video you will hear the narrator speak directly to Christians and call Christians to prayer. He spoke to the church and no other group. Youtube has a policy of not discriminating against anyone for their religious beliefs and yet here we have a clear case of youtube doing that exact thing.
The "main stream media" will be doing stories on this we've been told. You read it here first. Stay tuned.
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