Comedians Jimmy Dore and Danny Polishchuk say they were censored for talking about Justin Trudeau and Klaus Schwab

Comedians Jimmy Dore, Ryan Long, and Danny Polishchuk discussed instances of online censorship they have faced for posting videos about Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum.

On an episode of "The Boyscast," a podcast by Long and Polishchuk, comedian and political commentator Dore spoke about a video from his own show, which featured Trudeau being heckled during an official outing.

"I show a video, so he goes out to do a campaign stop somewhere, he's supposed to go visit somebody, and, you know, like a photo op, people show up and they hate him. Not a lot of people, maybe 40 people were there, and they're right in his face and they're going 'you're a f**king criminal you're, a f**king criminal!' so I show this on my show, YouTube demonetizes it."

Dore went on to explain that through a contact at YouTube, he sought the actual reason as to why his video was demonetized, which typically results in a delayed remonetization after all the steam is out of the news story.

"I request a review and all this s**t, and I have a liaison on YouTube that actually talks to me right, and so I said, 'Hey, I need you to run this up and give me a real reason why they did this.' So a lot of times my guy will come back and go, 'Oh, no, I said it's monetized, it's okay,' but a week has already passed, so the news value of it is over," Dore explained.

"That's there to make you self-censor, that's there to make sure you just don't do those stories any more. So it took two weeks for them to review this video —" Dore continued, before Long jokingly interrupted to suggest that the reason was Trudeau "is too hot" to be criticized.

"They said that this was targeted harassment," Dore revealed. "You mean the most powerful guy in the country? We're harassing him?! And that was that."

Polishchuk then recalled receiving a YouTube Community Guidelines strike along with a defamation notice for doing a show about the World Economic Forum founder, Klaus Schwab: "I did a show about Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum, and I got a defamation notice from the World Economic Forum on my YouTube channel saying that this video could not be played in five countries, all European, for whatever reason," he recalled.

The Canadian also stated there was no YouTube strike at first, but then "less than a week later I got a strike for nothing, just absolutely nothing, some joke."

The three comedians also discussed Canada's new legislation (Bill C-18) that requires social media companies to pay news outlets for content. Mark Zuckerberg's Meta has refused to comply with the new rules, resulting in news content being blocked on Facebook and Instagram in Canada.

Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!