YouTube Says Sargon Of Akkad Has Been Suspended From Making Money From Videos On Its Platform

YouTube Has Downgraded Carl Benjamin's Sargon Of Akkad Account After He Talked About Raping A British MP

YouTube confirmed to BuzzFeed News that UKIP candidate Carl Benjamin — known online as Sargon of Akkad — has been suspended from the company's partner programme.

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YouTube has demonetised Carl Benjamin's Sargon of Akkad video channel after the political commentator turned UKIP candidate made comments about raping a woman MP.

Earlier this week, West Midlands police announced an investigation into Benjamin's remarks made in a YouTube video about Labour MP Jess Phillips, where the UKIP European election candidate questioned whether he'd rape her before concluding "nobody's got that much beer".

It was the second time the YouTuber has made rape remarks about the Labour MP. In 2016, Benjamin tweeted: "I wouldn't even rape you @jessphillips" in response to Phillips posting about rape and death threats she received online.

YouTube removed the video from the Sargon of Akkad channel, while Phillips gave an interview to the BBC questioning whether Benjamin should still be allowed to run in the EU elections later this month.

On Friday afternoon, YouTube told BuzzFeed News the company was now taking the step of demonetising Benjamin's Sargon of Akkad channel, which has almost 1 million subscribers, effectively removing Benjamin's ability to make advertising money from videos he posts on the platform.

A company spokesperson also confirmed Benjamin had been removed from the "YouTube Partner Program", which gives popular video creators access to a share of YouTube's advertising money, assistance when it comes to copyright, and direct contact with the company's IT support.

YouTube declined to give a comment about the crackdown on Benjamin's account.

When contacted for comment on Friday, Benjamin sent BuzzFeed News an unrelated political statement about knife crime. Several of his online followers have been tweeting a statement claiming to be from Benjamin.

"YouTube let us know today that they have demonetised my YouTube channel, which as you know is my primary source of income, and how I support my family and team," the statement reads.

"I've always taken care to comply with YouTube's rules, and the only thing I've done differently recently is standing for public office. Companies as large as YouTube have to rely heavily on algorithms that are vulnerable to mass reporting from malicious actors.

"Given how much of a hate-mob has been stirred up against me due to the, frankly, dishonest reporting about my candidacy, it is hardly surprised this has happened."

The statement also said that YouTube has given Benjamin 30 days to consider an appeal.

On Friday, the UKIP candidate also was involved in a fight on the campaign trail in Cornwall. BBC News reports a fight broke out after two protesters tried to throw a milkshake at Benjamin at a campaign event with far-right troll Milo Yiannopoulos.

Benjamin has also been banned from Twitter.

 

[ProgKing of the North]

The most shocking thing about this is the UK press relying almost entirely on the "I wouldn't even rape you" line instead of the "white niggers" one.

They gotta have some ammo in reserve in case it looks like he might win

 

[Lieutenant Rasczak]

Carl is likely not going to win, but if he does win I'll find it pretty funny. More lulz and chaos for me to enjoy from an Applebee's Waitor.

 

[NotreallyPutin]

"I wouldn't even rape you" line instead of the "white niggers" one

-implying the Cucked media would defend those evil white male niggers

Can't protect white people fam, even if they're called niggers. The rape comment is the obvious.

On a more serious note-

If you think that you might even want to get involved in politics don't say stupid shit like that. The reason that Trump gets away with it is that society is conditioned to him saying off the wall things 25/8, it's a given. With Carl no one outside of youtube and the gamergate fags really knew who he was. In reality he's a literal who that got paid a decent amount for making videos for his weirdo audience.

 

[verissimus]

The most shocking thing about this is the UK press relying almost entirely on the "I wouldn't even rape you" line instead of the "white niggers" one.

Not really because the former was directed at a sitting member of Parliament. The latter at least can be brushed aside as a dumbass remark.

 

[Bohica]

 

[mindlessobserver]

Sargon should of just stayed away from dealing with British politics as its controlled by various vested interests to maintain the status quo and will never allow anyone from any political alignment to make any significant change by basically committing borderline slander and libel.

And this right here is the winning statement. As an outsider who likes watching british politics, my view is its all the worst parts of democracy, combined with all the worst parts of monarchy. They claim to hold elections where the people get a say, but the people they get to vote for are carefully vetted and approved by an institutional aristocracy that would make the two political parties in America seem like pauper peasants pretending they can unionize. They all play lip service to the voodoo magic of an "unwritten constitution", that essentially is nothing more then the power of absolute monarchy stolen by whoever gets to be Prime Minister and can use the royal prerogative as they see fit. And then they have absolute brass balls to claim that the Prime Minister is "elected". Sure, by his or her fellow cronies.

 

[BlueSpark]

He still has his Subscribe Star as a source of income:

Sargon on SubscribeStar.com

Subscribe to Sargon for more updates and exclusive content.

www.subscribestar.com

He currently has 2496 subscribers and the minimum pledge is $1

 

[Trust Me I Know]

Oi, you got a loicense for that monetization, mate?

 

[Niggernerd]

Good lol
Maybe if he wasn't such a insufferable nitwit I'd feel bad but he deserves it for his own stupidity.

 

[Belligerent Monk]

To the surprise of absolutely nobody tho.
People have been demonitized for way less than his highlight reel of spergery.

Time to schill for them cryptoshekels now.

 

[SilkGnut]

What did he say that was wrong tho?

He looks goofy and is stupid as shit for believing he could make an impact in the world but what has he said that he is wrong about?

Fucking embarrassing if people are getting off on this just cuz of them factors. I mean I am happy to be corrected here but most people in this thread are coming off as dumbass sheep who are praising the system for crushing out dissidents.

 

[Radical Goodspeed]

Its almost like saying stupid shit in public has consequences.

(Its also incredibly retarded in general that Karl didn't seem to grasp that oppo research is a thing that can be used against him, and this is an extension of that.)

 

[Wesley Willis]

Ilhan Omhar says Jews are hypnotizing the US and buying the government, she gets elected to Congress.

Some trashy dude in the UK pranks his gf by teaching her dog to get excited at “gas the Jews” as a joke.

You have leftists arguing the second example should lead to someone losing their livelihood and the first gets a “well uh actually” and “bbbbut she’s getting death threats!!”.

The US still has free speech. The UK does not. It deserves another Blitzkrieg.

 

[Animewasamistake]

What did he say that was wrong tho?

He looks goofy and is stupid as shit for believing he could make an impact in the world but what has he said that he is wrong about?

Fucking embarrassing if people are getting off on this just cuz of them factors. I mean I am happy to be corrected here but most people in this thread are coming off as dumbass sheep who are praising the system for crushing out dissidents.

We are not praising the Uk for shitting on sargon. we are just amazed that someone who was "one degree of sepereation" from Trump has so fantastically ruined not only his meager chance at getting elected but also nearly single handed, brought down a entire political party.

 

[Unog]

Just gonna leave this here, timestamped to the relevant point to the thread:

 

[IAmNotAlpharius]

Just gonna leave this here, timestamped to the relevant point to the thread:

It’s stuff like that which makes me not feel sympathetic towards Sargons current plight. He really does believe that there are no wrong tactics, just wrong targets.

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Just gonna leave this here, timestamped to the relevant point to the thread:

romanian rodents

contemptous garden gnome

 

[Secret Asshole]

Sargon is a dumb motherfucker. He thinks he's smart and strategic. But he's a stupid faggot who think that the masses who hate him wouldn't dig up the dumb shit that he did and then the stupid fuck doubles down.

 

[Absolutego]

Every Vee reference in that vid is great. I wish I could remember what he paired with "Transylvanian".

Sargon is a dumb motherfucker. He thinks he's smart and strategic. But he's a stupid faggot who think that the masses who hate him wouldn't dig up the dumb shit that he did and then the stupid fuck doubles down.

For a guy who followed the 2016 election and Trump's rise to the presidency rather obsessively, it's a testament to how thick Sargon is that he boiled down the entirety of Trump's victory to him trolling the media, and not, you know, everything else. I bet you Sargon's one of those smoothbrains who thinks GamerGate is what got Trump elected.

 

[Secret Asshole]

Vee was always his tardwrangler, not his carrier pigeon. How you can defend Sargon after all the incompetent shit he's done is beyond me. Or a sunk cost fallacy.