‘Hate speech’: YouTube censors video of Marco Rubio branding Hamas as ‘savages’

YouTube censored a video of Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio calling Hamas terrorists “savages,” citing the comment as a violation of the platform’s “hate speech policy,” according to Florida’s Voice, which posted the video.

YouTube took down the video because it “incites hatred against individuals or groups based on their protected group status,” according to the platform’s message to Florida’s Voice. Rubio asserted that it seems like the platform has come to the conclusion that people should not label “Hamas terrorists who burned babies & raped girls” as “savages,” according to his post in response.

“These guys are ideological psychopaths, and they’re savages,” Rubio asserted in the video that YouTube censored. “And they would if they could – not just kill every Jew they can get their hands on – they would kill Americans in the process.”

Hamas has killed more than 1,300 Israeli men, women, and children, according to The Times of Israel.

Apparently @YouTube @Google has decided that calling Hamas terrorists who burned babies & raped girls “savages” is dehumanizing “hate speech” https://t.co/bjoZveYOR4

— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) October 13, 2023

The content may have included “dehumanization, using slurs and stereotypes, inferiority claims,” according to YouTube’s message.

YouTube recently blocked comedian Russell Brand from earning advertising money on his videos after several women accused him of sexual assault in September.

The platform expanded its “medical misinformation” censorship policies in August, according to a blog post.

YouTube and Florida’s Voice did not immediately respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

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