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.
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.
Ritter Reacts
Ritter responded to YouTube's decision in a pair of tweets Friday, saying the move is an attempt by US-based social media platforms to silence him.
"There was never any hate speech involved in any of the episodes of 'The Scott Ritter Show', unless one views unique content from silenced voices hateful," Ritter wrote. "Knowledge is power, ignorance is weakness. YouTube, through its actions, makes America and Americans weak," he added.
Over the course of the past year I’ve had the privilege of working in collaboration with Soloviev Live! to bring important Russian voices to an American/Western audience through “The Scott Ritter Show.” Today YouTube cancelled the channel used to air the show, calling it “hate…
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) August 11, 2023
Pointing out that his channel was removed the same day that "Ask The Inspector," another of his channels, got scrubbed, Ritter emphasized that "this is a targeted effort by YouTube to remove/minimize my voice, and those of my guests and the people who took the time to ask probing questions about the pressing issues of the day."
When it rains, it pours. The same day that YouTube deplatformed “The Scott Ritter Show”, they deplatformed “Ask The Inspector.” This is a targeted effort by YouTube to remove/minimize my voice, and those of my guests and the people who took the time to ask probing questions about…
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) August 11, 2023
The poster-child of CIA insanity. This organization has no legitimate reason to exist, and Morrell makes my case. If you’re watching this and nodding in agreement with what this lunatic is saying, you’re the problem, not the solution. https://t.co/N7sX8ZXLS5
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) August 11, 2023
Last year, he was suspended from Twitter after calling Joe Biden a "war criminal" and accusing him of "seeking to shift blame for the Bucha murders" on Russia. He was later reinstated, but suspended again after a "test, test, test" tweet stating that "Bucha was a war crime," and that "Ukraine did it." He has since been reinstated again. Ritter has faced a seemingly organized campaign against him on the microblogging platform, with users appealing to the site's owner to have him permanently banned.
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