Bad Week For Gavin McInnes: YouTube Account Deleted, Show Cancelled

NEW YORK, NY - MAY 25: Activist Gavin McInnes takes part in an Alt Right protest of Muslim activist Linda Sarsour on May 25, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)
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It’s been a bad few days for Proud Boys founder and far-right media personality Gavin McInnes.

On Saturday, according to The Hill, Blaze Media — the week-old fusion of Mark Levin’s CRTV and Glenn Beck’s The Blaze — announced it “no long has a relationship” with McInnes to make a show based on his podcast of the same name, “Get Off My Lawn.”

Then, on Monday, per the Daily Beast, YouTube deleted McInnes’ account “due to multiple third-party notifications of copyright infringement,” leaving the Vice Media co-founder without any major social media platform.

In November, reports emerged that McInnes had been denied an Australian visa on the grounds of his character.

In October, the NYPD open a criminal probe of the Proud Boys after several members engaged in a brawl following an event of McInnes’ at the Metropolitan Republican Club. Police now count nine Proud Boys arrested as a result of the fight.

After reports that the FBI had designated the Proud Boys an extremist group — which the FBI later denied — McInnes said he had quit the group.

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  1. Avatar for erik_t erik_t says:

    Maybe his beard can hang out with Julian’s cat.

  2. Avatar for bkmn bkmn says:

    Won’t be long before he has to move in with Milo Yeahnoplease.

  3. Seriously, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. These vile wretches deserve all the condemnation they’re getting from public life. This is the entirely appropriate response, for the market to say “we don’t want to hear what you have to say”.

  4. Ugh, looking forward to more lectures on the 1st Amendment from know-nothing relatives of Facebook.

  5. Bad Week For Gavin McInnes: YouTube Account Deleted, Show Cancelled

    The Love Boat was canceled years ago.

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