No, he was not. Intern, he’s been pushed off a Twitter, one other platform and now due to a fire storm a false claims made against his YouTube channel, it’s going to be shut down in a few more days.
I generally think that he’s using YouTube as a video hosting platform, because he has his own site and think all of his interviews go through a podcast.
But it’s one more example of enclosing the “public square” of discourse a commercial outlets are consolidated.
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