Scott Ritter is one of the few Americans who knows what he’s talking about when it comes to Ukraine. From Ilya Tsukanov at sputnikglobe.com:
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The veteran former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, UN weapons inspector, geopolitical observer and Sputnik contributor has spent over a year providing incisive commentaries about the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine, challenging the Western mainstream narrative and offering his own perspective on the origins of the crisis.
Google-owned video hosting giant YouTube has deleted Scott Ritter’s YouTube channel.
A banner reading “This account has been terminated due to multiple or severe violations of YouTube’s policy prohibiting hate speech” greets anyone trying to navigate to Ritter’s channel.
Screenshot of the page you will see if you try to navigate to Scott Ritter’s YouTube channel.
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The company did not provide any information about the nature of these alleged “multiple or severe violations,” or how Ritter’s mostly Ukrainian crisis-related commentaries and interviews constituted “hate speech.”
YouTube allows for user-based reporting of any alleged “hate speech,” prompting concerns from content creators over the years that the video hosting giant lets organized online activists to silence voices and views they might not like or agree with, or which challenge important state and corporate narratives.
This censorship insanity shouldn’t surprise anyone. Well, at least anyone with a functioning brain. Scott has always been a sane voice amidst legions of propaganda and psych-warfare. Wear this as a badge of honor Mr. Ritter. It just shows us that they are afraid of what you say.