#195 - Stefan Molyneux - Why YouTube Deleted My 1m Subscriber Channel
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2020
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Stefan Molyneux is a philosopher & (ex)YouTuber.
Stefan is the creator of one of the longest running channels on YouTube with hundreds of millions of views, last Monday it was deleted without warning.
I wanted to find out why he thinks this happened, what his thoughts are on the future of free expression on the internet, his predictions for the rest of 2020 and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends, welcome back. |
| 0:02.2 | My guest today is Stefan Mollenue and he is the ex-owner of one of the biggest philosophy |
| 0:07.0 | channels on all of YouTube. |
| 0:08.8 | Last week he got banned and that was nearly a million subscribers, a couple of hundred |
| 0:13.6 | million views, a couple of billion comments and that was deleted overnight. |
| 0:17.8 | And I wanted to just find out what was going on. |
| 0:19.8 | Stefan has an interesting insight into the current political landscape in both America |
| 0:25.4 | and more broadly. |
| 0:26.8 | We get into some discussions to do with welfare states, personal sovereignty, personal agency |
| 0:32.5 | and a bunch of other stuff. |
| 0:34.0 | As we move further into 2020 and issues of freedom of expression and freedom of speech online |
| 0:38.8 | become more and more important, I thought it would be a good idea to hear from the second |
| 0:44.0 | largest ever YouTube deletion after Alex Jones. |
| 0:47.6 | So yeah, tons of insights to take away from today. |
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