YouTube is now investigating conservative comedian, BlazeTV host, and YouTube star Steven Crowder, after a Vox writer who frequently targets conservatives for de-platforming asked them to. And Crowder has a response.

It started - well the current scuffle started - when Vox's Carlos Maza took his case to his Twitter feed to complain that Crowder was harassing and bullying him. In his Tweet thread, he included a heavily edited montage of excerpts from Crowder's shows, where he made fun of Maza.



Since I started working at Vox, Steven Crowder has been making video after video "debunking" Strikethrough. Every single video has included repeated, overt attacks on my sexual orientation and ethnicity. Here's a sample: pic.twitter.com/UReCcQ2Elj

— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) May 31, 2019

In that thread, Maza not only targets Crowder for crowd-sourced flagging and reporting, he repeatedly places blame and responsibility on YouTube for allowing a "monster" for allowing "bullying" of its "LGBT creators."



Anyway, if you want to help, I guess you can go to this dude's videos and flag them? But @YouTube isn't going to do anything, because YouTube does not give a fuck about queer creators. It cares about "engagement," and homophobic/racist harassment is VERY "engaging."

— Carlos Maza (@gaywonk) May 31, 2019

YouTube responded to the Vox writer personally on Twitter.



Thanks so much for outlining all of this–we're looking into it further. Sending you a DM now.

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) May 31, 2019

So personal attention for the liberal writer at a site backed by a major corporate entity.

And that is exactly what Steven Crowder talked about in this response. Watch:



"This is corporate censorship, and this is yet another giant company trying to lean on this channel, your channel, and the content that you've created," says Crowder. "And this is a war ... we will fight to the absolute bitter end both legally and publicly.

He also made an interesting point about viewership. Without being featured, while being in general shunned by YouTube as a company, his channels subscribers and views dwarf those of places like Vox, who on the other hand get all sorts of love and attention from YouTube, he says.

Crowder characterizes this as a David vs. Goliath battle. It is also yet another example of how there is a fine line between corporate freedom to select their content, and coordinated censorship of one point of view by the culturally acceptable other side.