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Right Wing Watch's Kyle Mantyla told me that YouTube issued a final strike against RWW's channel and removed its account based on a video that had been up for 8 years.

The ban removes a deep archive of thousands of clips exposing

“The number of times our video has gotten flagged and removed and the video from which we took it is still up on YouTube, you’re just like, well, something is wrong with your system here,” Mantyla said about YouTube's uneven and broken enforcement policy.
UPDATE

YouTube has now reinstated Right Wing Watch's channel, chalking it up to a mistake.

"Right Wing Watch’s YouTube channel was mistakenly suspended, but upon further review, has now been reinstated," a YouTube spokesperson told the Daily Beast.
Right Wing Watch Director @AddieStan released the following statement after YouTube's reinstatement:

"We hope this is the end of a years-long struggle with YouTube to understand the nature of our work."

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