{"id":130651,"date":"2023-09-20T21:23:28","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=130651"},"modified":"2023-09-20T21:23:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T21:23:28","slug":"youtube-is-slammed-for-stripping-russell-brand-of-earning-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/world-news\/youtube-is-slammed-for-stripping-russell-brand-of-earning-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube is slammed for stripping Russell Brand of earning rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>YouTube is slammed for demonetizing Russell Brand&#8217;s channel over sexual assault allegations: &#8216;It&#8217;s perilous for any business to appoint itself judge, jury and premature executioner&#8217;<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>YouTube, where Brand has over 6million subscribers, will allow him to stay on the platform but not make money\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Brand is accused of sexual abuse by four women who spoke anonymously to Channel 4 and The Times<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>He has not been arrested and he\u00a0denies the allegations vehemently\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>YouTube\u00a0is being widely criticized for its decision to strip comedian Russell Brand of the right to earn money via advertising on his popular channel after a string of women went public with disturbing allegations of rape and sexual assault.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brand is accused of attacking four women who told their stories anonymously to Channel 4&#8217;s Dispatches\u00a0and The Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brand insists he is innocent and the victim of an attack by the &#8216;mainstream media&#8217; &#8211; a claim which many of his supporters are embracing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Despite the shocking nature of the allegations that include having an abusive relationship with a 16-year-old girl when he was 31, he has not been arrested, nor charged with any\u00a0crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Metropolitan Police in London\u00a0is investigating a separate allegation against Brand relating to a 2003 incident, but says it has not received any reports relating to the allegations in either the documentary or newspaper report.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brand has, in the meantime, been crucified and martyred in the court of public opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>Scroll down for video\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75528049-12540947-Russell_Brand_leaving_the_Troubabour_Wembley_Park_theater_in_Lon-m-2_1695229834949.jpg\" height=\"511\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Russell Brand leaving the Troubadour Wembley Park theater in London on Saturday after the allegations against him were made public<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650231-12540947-Brand_released_this_video_on_his_YouTube_account_before_the_clai-m-11_1695230089451.jpg\" height=\"406\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Brand released this video on his YouTube account vehemently denying the allegations\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, YouTube announced that while he is allowed to stay on the platform, it will no longer allow him to make money from his channel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;If a creator\u2019s off-platform behavior harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action to protect the community,&#8217; the streaming site said. The BBC has also removed Brand&#8217;s shows from its iPlayer and BBC Sounds.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That decision is now being blasted &#8211; not only by Brand&#8217;s own fans &#8211; but others who say it&#8217;s premature given Brand&#8217;s own denial and a lack of due process amid overwhelming public interest and opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Piers Morgan, who said last night on his Talk TV show: &#8216;As far as we all know at the moment, they are accusations, albeit very serious\u00a0ones that were done in extremely well researched in investigative journalism.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;There is something slightly Orwellian about a business that says it will still host his videos, keeping millions of eyeballs on their platform, but won&#8217;t share any of the spoils.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s perilous in a free, democratic society, for any powerful business to appoint itself\u00a0 judge jury and perhaps premature executioner.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Morgan holds the same level of criticism for fans of Brand or naysayers who have rushed to the assumption he is the victim of a mainstream media witch-hunt.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650099-12540947-image-a-8_1695229981729.jpg\" height=\"270\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650103-12540947-image-a-7_1695229978819.jpg\" height=\"153\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650101-12540947-image-a-9_1695229985202.jpg\" height=\"87\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650115-12540947-image-a-3_1695229968429.jpg\" height=\"230\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650111-12540947-image-a-4_1695229970770.jpg\" height=\"163\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650109-12540947-image-a-5_1695229973513.jpg\" height=\"188\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75650119-12540947-image-a-6_1695229976142.jpg\" height=\"388\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Backlash: Many have condemned YouTube&#8217;s decision as premature when Brand is yet to be arrested or charged with a crime\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The way the story is playing out online is evidence of a slightly bigger problem which us tribalism. Millions of people have raced to RB&#8217;s defense without even reading the heinous claims against him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They think it&#8217;s a conspiracy by the mainstream media to crush a man who got too close to the truth. I think that&#8217;s rubbish personally.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Millions more have convicted him based on their opinions, forcing companies to end his career before he&#8217;s had any due process. I think they are wrong to race to conviction-point too.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Telegraph columnist Allison Pearson slammed the decision by YouTube as &#8216;appalling&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Whatever your views on the Russell Brand scandal &#8211; and there are four serious allegations of rape, assault and \u201cemotional abuse\u201d against him, the decision by YouTube where he has 6.5 million subscribers is just appalling.\u00a0Chilling, actually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Not only does this Orwellian unpersonning of Russell Brand violate a fundamental tenet of a free society \u2013 these are still only allegations\u00a0remember \u2013 it makes the prospect of a fair trial, should he ever be charged, unlikely.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/20\/18\/75541673-12540947-One_accuser_Alice_pictured_alleges_that_Russell_Brand_sexually_a-a-12_1695230151814.jpg\" height=\"361\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>One accuser, Alice (pictured), alleges that Russell Brand sexually assaulted her when she was 16 years old. She claims he would send a car to pick her up from secondary school, which she has since claimed was a &#8216;BBC car&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Our system holds that a man is innocent until proven guilty. The attempt to unperson Russell Brand is almost as disturbing as the sins of which he stands accused,&#8217; she wrote in her Tuesday column.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Spectator&#8217;s Brendan O&#8217;Neill also writes that it is &#8216;wrong&#8217; for YouTube to take away his livelihood, and The Washington Examiner also condemned the move.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Equally, conservatives including Megyn Kelly are urging caution against believing Brand&#8217;s claim he is the victim of a mainstream media witch-hunt.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Megyn Kelly, speaking on her SiriusXM show, said: &#8216;I realize that the knee-jerk instinct now by so many is, \u2018Russell Brand is wrongly accused. These women are all liars.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Could you please for a second stay open-minded to the possibility that the women are telling the truth?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;We don\u2019t need to so overcorrect from the #MeToo movement that every woman gets completely disregarded and called a liar when she finds the guts to come forward and make an allegation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8216;<\/span>They may be telling the truth!&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Brand received immediate support from Elon Musk and Andrew Tate, who himself is accused of sex trafficking in eastern Europe. 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