{"id":73914,"date":"2022-10-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/youtube-shuts-down-ewtns-polish-channel\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T00:00:00","slug":"youtube-shuts-down-ewtns-polish-channel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldcatholicnews.com\/youtube-shuts-down-ewtns-polish-channel\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube shuts down EWTN\u2019s Polish channel"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cI am disappointed by the politics of YouTube, which, after all, was born in a country for which freedom of speech and respect for dissenting views is a benchmark for the growth of prosperity and security of its citizens,\u201d the priest wrote in a statement issued to the media.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The first time it happened, on April 10, 2021, the channel was notified that it was suspended for \u201cviolation of community rules.\u201d The channel was restored after 24 hours and many complaints from loyal users.<\/p>\n

After it happened again last Saturday, Wi\u015bniowski and the staff at EWTN Poland appealed to get the channel started up again and were told confusing and contradictory reasons for the shutdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At one point there were told the channel was suspended because of a \u201cviolation of community rules\u201d; then that there was a \u201ctakeover [by a third party] of a Google account that was sending SPAM\u201d; and then they were told that there had been a \u201ctakeover of the YouTube channel.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat rules of the YouTube community are violated by, for example, the adoration of the Blessed Sacrament from Niepokalan\u00f3w?\u201d the priest asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cI kindly ask all Catholic circles, especially media circles, to stand in solidarity with our TV EWTN Poland, to support it spiritually, and to express their dissatisfaction with the situation,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n