Here's everything that has been done to me simply for being an anti-war, anti-capitalism comedian:
➡️ 2016 My Facebook of 330,000 followers is shadow-banned nearly into oblivion
➡️ 2016 My main YouTube channel of a quarter million subscribers is shadow-banned, decreasing views by about 90%
➡️ 2017 NY Times attack piece against me on the cover the Arts section filled with lies and half-truths
➡️ 2017 NPR "Weekend Edition" segment attacking me airs, also filled with lies and half-truths
➡️ 2017 My Wikipedia page is edited to heavily imply I am some kind of propagandist, basically repeating everything from the NY Times
➡️ 2018 Twitter shadow-bans me
➡️ 2018 Instagram shadow-bans me
➡️ 2020 Facebook bans me from promoting to my followers
➡️ 2022 My TV show (and the entire channel) is canceled by US sanctions
➡️ 2022 (one week later) My YouTube channel is banned around the world (continues to this day)
➡️ 2022 Over 2,000 YouTube videos gone (essentially digital book burning)
➡️ 2022 (one week later) My longtime podcast "Moment of Clarity" is banned by Spotify
➡️ 2022 (one month later) DailyBeast attack piece comes out designed to try to get Patreon to cut off my account (and others)
➡️ 2022 My new YouTube channel for my show with MintPress is shadow-banned
➡️ 2022 Emails sent to my email list of fans now often have giant yellow warnings saying the email is probably phishing (thereby causing most people to avoid opening them)
➡️ All of this continues to this day
** This list does not include all of the endless doors that have been closed to me simply for being anti-war & anti-imperialism. For example, I will never be asked to perform as a comedian on any mainstream TV channel, nor will I ever be interviewed by mainstream media unless the goal is to attack me.
➡️ If I were instead promoting the war machine and capitalist exploitation by supporting the Dems or Republicans, then none of this would've happened to me. OR if I were to perform vapid, empty comedy like so many comics, then there would be no suppression and censorship against me. And yet, the US is the country of "free speech" that so many proudly defend?
➡️ But I regret none of it. If you aren’t being attacked or suppressed by the criminal imperialist oligarchs, then you’re on the wrong side.