YouTube has removed reporting by Steven Crowder on the pages of the withheld manifesto of the Nashville mass shooter that he managed to obtain, claiming that they “think it violates” their policy on “violent criminal organizations”.
Whatever that means is anyone’s guess. Crowder shared the development with a screenshot from his YouTube account, commenting “Investigative journalism is now considered a ‘criminal organization’”:
YouTube further told Crowder that “Content that glorifies violent criminal organization or incites violence is not allowed on YouTube.”
Crowder revealed the three sheets of handwritten notes purportedly made by Audrey Hale before the self identifying trans individual went on a killing spree that took the lives of three young children and three teachers at the Covenant Catholic School in March.
The material contains anti-white racial slurs, as detailed by Crowder in this post which has been rendered “sensitive” on X:
Crowder also noted that Facebook has censored the content:
Sharing of the material has also been restricted on Reddit:
Basically, the only place the news exists outside of Crowder’s site and websites like this one is X:
The censorship comes despite Nashville’s Fox 17 having “confirmed through a source” that the photos of the pages “are authentic.”
Nashville police, who along with the FBI have refused to release the manifesto in the seven months since the horrific murders, issued a statement that reads “The MNPD is in communication with the Metropolitan Department of Law as an investigation, begun this morning, continues into the dissemination of three photographs of writings during an on-line discussion about Covenant School. The photographs are not MNPD crime scene images.”
The Nashville Mayor’s office also confirmed the authenticity of the documents, but seems to be more concerned with finding out who leaked the images than what is actually written in them or why they were withheld.