Wednesday, September 24, 2025

YouTube Says They're Going to Reinstate Banned Political Channels


YouTube Says They're Going to Reinstate Banned Political Channels

We're sorry guys, it won't happen again!" ain't gonna cut it

Jordan Sather

Post on September 24, 2025

On Tuesday Sept 23rd, Rep. Jim Jordan of the House Judiciary Committee released a letter that the lawyers of Google sent him where they effectively admitted that the Biden Administration pressured them to censor political content on YouTube and stated that they commit to offer all creators previously kicked off YouTube for “political speech violations” a chance to return to the platform.

I’ll believe it when I see it.

Before we get into highlighting the problem with GoogleTube’s statements, let me first discuss my history with YouTube and their censorship, which I am all too familiar with.

Short version:
I started my Destroying the Illusion YouTube channel in January 2017 to discuss my interests in health, UFOs/suppressed energy technology, and politics/NWO control systems. My channel grew quickly, amassing 100,000 subscribers within the first year. A notable increase in engagement happened when I was the first YouTube channel to report on the posts from Q.

My channel was suspended twice in 2018, once in February and again in May. I surmise that this was due to the growth of my videos relating to Q, I was garnering almost 100,000 views per video, per day in the early months of Q (Nov/Dec 2017). I fought each time to get the channel back, and surprisingly succeeded at doing so. Afterward, things were fairly smooth sailing on YouTube until the hammer started to fall in 2020 - the Scamdemic. YouTube fully demonetized my channel in March 2020 and had taken down about a dozen or so videos throughout the year on issues pertaining to the COVID lab leak, Hydroxychloroquine, Chlorine Dioxide, masks, and vaccines.

Then, of course, we get to the fateful day of October 15th, 2020 - the day of the Great YouTube Purge - which was also the day the Hunter Biden laptop story hit the mainstream media. Coincidence? Of course not. YouTube removed dozens and dozens of channel, the full number nobody knows. Content creators like X22 Report, Redpill78, Praying Medic, Edge of Wonder, myself, and many others. The full number of channels removed that day will probably never be known. The total combined following of all channels booted that day is at least in the multi-tens of millions. I had approximately 240K subscribers on my main channel and 50K subscribers on my backend channel when those were suspended during the Great Purge. Most of the channels removed that happened to be major voices within the Q movement. A targeted strike to silence dissent 3 weeks before the 2020 election. Pretty clear what happened and why.

That back story leads up into dissecting the issues with YouTube’s current P.R.:

1) How exactly will people be let on the platform?

In the letter from Google’s lawyers, they failed to mention exactly how or where suspended content creators can appeal for their channels to be reinstated.

When going to the backend of my original Destroying the Illusion channel, it looks like this:

Usually there are at least some metrics and buttons still available in the “YouTube Studio”, even if the channel is suspended, but at the moment there are absolutely no functions available - not even the usual Appeal button. And talking to other creators with banned channels, theirs look the exactly same way.

So where are we supposed to go to file an appeal and sign up to be on the “reinstatement” list?

One of the official X accounts for YouTube, “Updates from YT”, posted this yesterday after the Reinstatement Announcement went public.

“This will be a limited pilot project available to a subset of creators in addition to those channels terminated for policies that have been deprecated.”

Wait - so now it sounds like they are picking and choosing which channels they are going to let back on the platform, and it’s only available to a select few people?

And in that jargon, it also sounds like they are only going to let the channels back on that were “terminated for policies that have been deprecated” - but if we know anything about YouTube’s policies is that they purposely make them confusing and arbitrary so that they can twist any future excuse to make their reasoning seem justified. (They also rarely actually explain what statements were made in the offending videos they take down.)

They claim my channel was banned for their “Spam, Deceptive Practices, and Scams” policy, even though we know it was purely a suspension over political speech. Are they going to deny my appeal over their arbitrary, unclear justification?

There is no reason to celebrate this accouncement from Google/YouTube quite yet. This could all be garbage P.R.

2) The bulk of YouTube’s censorship took place BEFORE the Biden Administration.

Speaking of garbage P.R., Google’s statement admitted that the censorship was “unacceptable and wrong” (no shit, Sherlock) and shifts the blame onto the Biden Administration for pressuring them to censor.

Although, as already described above, most and the worst of YouTube’s censorship took place BEFORE the Biden Administration, during the summer and fall of 2020. So who’s fault was the censorship at that point? There is no one to put that blame on but themselves.

This appears like they are cherry picking a specific time frame of censorship as to put the blame on Biden and avoid accountability for the election interference censorship they were committing.

3) The damage has already been done.

A “sorry, won’t happen again” won’t cut it here.

The influencers online who are celebrating this move by Google/YouTube are those who have no skin in the game - they have active YouTube channels and never endured the brunt of YouTube’s cancellation themselves - so they aren’t seeing the underlying gaslighting coming from Google’s statement.

“Well done!” - for what? Google/YouTube hasn’t done anything yet.

“Glad to see YouTube finally taking some accountability…”

What accountability? They shifted the blame for the censorship onto Biden and have yet to actually reinstatement any channels.

True accountability would be reinstating all channels that were not promoting illegal or violent content, AND paying some form of restitution to those channels they unlawfully terminated.

”Oops, sorry” won’t take back my 5 years of lost revenue and lost growth from having my channel suspended. I want my channel reinstated with monetization, and some form of payouts for the lost 5 years.

Further Thoughts:

→ Why go back to YouTube?

An argument I’m seeing in my comments and replied in posts about this issue are from some people saying “Why go back to those commies? Stay on the Free Speech platforms like Rumble!”

Now from a content consumer standpoint, I totally get this. Most of my research is done on either X, Telegram, Rumble, or other platforms with better algorithms and lack of censorship.

But from a content creator standpoint, your perspective may change. We want to reach as many people as we can with new information to wake them up, so we should use any tool, or any platform available to do that. Rumble’s active user base is about 50 million, YouTube’s is 2 billion. Let’s be honest, Rumble is a bit of an echo chamber. We should be using YouTube, TikTok, and whatever platform we can to help wake people up - especially those with differing opinions. And also from a personal standpoint, if I’m trying to grow my brand, grow my follower base, and thus grow my income, YouTube is a better choice at doing that than Rumble or other, smaller platforms.

If I do end up getting my YouTube channel back I will surely not leave Rumble, but getting my 250K subscribers back would be a great asset for me personally, and also in the general Information War. Right now I have 44,000 subscribers on my Rumble channel and 3.4K on my new YouTube channel. I do also have a decent sized BitChute channel, but BitChute has never been the most popular or growth oriented website.

→ “Can you sue them?”

Been there, done that - and so far it’s gone nowhere.

Granted, maybe this new announcement by Google will give a new angle in any lawsuit, but so far the efforts have been moot.

After the Great Purge of October 15th 2020, about 15 of us YouTubers banded together and tried to sue Google in a Bay Area court.

Here’s an excerpt from an article about it:

A few of us that were on the list:

And the liberal friendly judge in the San Fransisco area ended up tossing the lawsuit.

”But what about a Class Action?”

That’s actually been tried as well, from President Trump himself.

Not sure if you remember Trump’s accouncement back in 2021, but he actually filed Class Action lawsuits against YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) was the legal group that he was working with on these Class Actions.

Unfortunately, I don’t know if these were tossed out or if they are still in district courts waiting in the wing - but I haven’t seen any updates on these Class Action cases since this below article in October 2021.

The America First Policy Institute even had a website they made for this Class Action case, “TakeOnBigTech.com”, where people could go and submit their censorship claims. I believe about 90,000 people submitted through that website - although now that webpage has been changed into a sign up form for AFPI ambassadors. It no longer says anything about their class action case.

So I don’t know if AFPI has quit the effort or what.

I even sent AFPI a short video explaining all the censorship I endured from YouTube/Twitter/Facebook, and they edited it into a promo video and posted it to their Twitter and Facebook pages for their TakeOnBigTech campaign.

Some kind of update would be nice, AFPI.

Final Thoughts

As of now, I’m relegating Google’s “reinstatement” statements into the garbage P.R. bucket. If they do end up giving some channels back, great, but so far nothing has changed, and I surely hope they don’t pick and choose which channels to let back on YouTube. An “oops sorry” isn’t going to cut it, they should give unlawfully terminated creators some sort of restitution for the censorship, although we may have to force that out of them. It is important, both in the information war and for the personal benefit, for creators to get back onto YouTube, at least for the time being. I’ll give it about a 5% chance that I actually get my original Destroying the Illusion channel back. I’ll sure as heck by trying to, though. DTI for life!

Jordan Sather

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