On January 6, 2021, Americans from across the nation gathered in Washington, D.C., for the Stop the Steal Rally to urge Congress to reconsider the electoral college votes. AltonMo.com put up an article and video stating the facts of the Stop the Steal Rally. On August 24, 2022, YouTube removed AltonMo.com’s video “The Wild Protest Rally Brought Millions Of People To Washington, D.C. On January 6, 2021” due to “misinformation.”
Original Publication
On January 8, 2021, AltonMo.com posted up an article and video concerning the Wild Protest Rally. In the article and video, what AltonMo.com saw was put in. You can read the article here.
Kicked Off
After about 2 1/2 years, on August 24, 2022, YouTube removed AltonMo.com’s Wild Protest Rally video. YouTube said,
Your content “The Wild Protest Rally Brought Millions Of People To Washington, D.C. On January 6, 2021” was removed due to a violation of our Community Guidelines.
YouTube later went on and said that it was categorized as “misinformation.”
Content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches changed the outcome of the U.S. 2020 presidential election is not allowed on YouTube.
Appeal Sent
YouTube gave us a chance to appeal to the ruling. We did.
The only problem I see with this is that you may, subjectively, disagree with the word ‘millions’ to describe the crowd gathered on January 6th. At that moment when this was uploaded, crowd counts were anywhere from multiple hundreds of thousands to over a million people. We were there as you can see. The mall between the Capitol and Washington Memorial to the White House and surrounding areas were filled with people. This video has been up since January 8, 2021, and just now you have a problem with this video. The contents of this video are interviews with people on that day. It is a historical document and I appeal your decision because, I think, history has not served you well in other topics of the last 6 years where time has proved you wrong on a variety of topics.
