In the wake of the most recent mosque shooting I believe it is time to take action as a community and remove white supremacist content from our platforms. One of the largest platforms for white supremacist content is PewDiePie's YouTube channel. PewDiePie has on many occasions proven once and again to promote and affiliate himself with white supremacist and Nazi ideologies. Worst of all his channel is very much aimed toward children in their formative years. The New Zealand mosque shooter even mentioned PewDiePie by name and asked people to subscribe.

PewDiePie has in the past:

• used the N slur twice in two separate videos and has hired people to say the N slur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jdh7EQRgps video of him saying the swedish version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCOShs17UfE
• he has promoted videos that contain Adolf Hitler speeches and anti-Semitic cartoons (https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533
• he paid Indian men on website Fiverr to hold up signs that say death to all jews (https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533
• he performed the nazi heil in one of his videos (https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533
• he used images of famous African-Americans (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Barack Obama) captioned with the wrong names (https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/apr/05/whats-up-pewdiepie-the-troubling-content-of-youtubes-biggest-star
• he made a clip of a man dressed as Jesus holding a sign stating "hitler did absolutely nothing wrong" (https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533
• he makes rape jokes (https://pewdiepie.fandom.com/wiki/It%27s_Raping_Time (http://pewdie.tumblr.com/post/34309686617/no-more-rape-jokes
• in his face-swapping video he repeatedly uses an image of actress Leslie Jones to represent Harambe, the gorilla killed in the Cincinnati zoo last year. (https://youtu.be/EivRj_VfMgo

Sean Vanman of Campo Anto studios which developed the popular game, Firewatch, has filed DMCA reports to remove the streams containing his games from the internet. Even though PewDiePie's streams have brought his company over 5.7 million views, Mr. Vanman saw the dangers. The Disney corporation also saw the dangers and terminated all contracts with PewDiePie.

Up until 2017, YouTube considered his content "brand safe". In 2017 they took minor action to appease angered customers. It is not enough. Even if PewDiePie cleaned up his act his comment sections are still a cesspool of white supremacist activities and commentaries.

At what point is YouTube legally responsible for the content it provides and allows on its platform? I believe that his actions constitute a clear and present danger to society. YouTube’s guidelines state, "if content is intended to be humorous or satirical, it may remain online, “even if offensive or in poor taste.” However, “if the uploader’s intent is to incite violence or hatred, it will be removed.”  How long will YouTube remain negligent?

It's Time to remove PewDiePie from YouTube permanently and develop AI to find and remove extremist material instead of having the SPLC do their work for them.

Please sign this petition.