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YouTube RESTRICTS campaign video from French presidential candidate Eric Zemmour
After 2.4 million views to date, YouTube has now placed what appear to be arbitrary restrictions on a video announcing the launch of Eric Zemmour’s campaign for the French presidency.
After 2.4 million views to date, YouTube has now placed what appear to be arbitrary restrictions on a video announcing the launch of Eric Zemmour's campaign for the French presidency.
Users now all of a sudden have to be 18 years or older and must be signed in in order to watch the video. A caption that appears when people try to watch the video without having signed in reads "This video may be inappropriate for some users."
Mainstream media outlets such as NBC have dubbed Zemmour a "far-right pundit". The video referenced in the hyperlink in this paragraph has also somehow "expired" on the NBC site hours after it was uploaded.
Zemmour himself, however, in the course of his 10-minute-long video, harshly criticizes both the left and the right in current French politics, claiming that politicians on both sides have abandoned France.
In the video, Zemmour also references France's historic cultural greatness, specifically mentioning Napoleon Bonaparte and Charles de Gaulle as his influences.
While he talks about what he sees as the decline of French society, he specifically points out that immigration, while it "may make things worse," is not the root cause of the problem, in his opinion.
Zemmour's solution, as proposed in the video, is to re-industrialize France, fixing trade imbalances, and "make business that have left return to France."
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