The platform has made this decision after a journalistic investigation. The channel was led by the ‘skinhead’ Mario Machado.
YouTube has blocked the account Portuguese far-right ultranationalist group 1143 directed by the famous ‘skinhead’ Mario Machado. The reason given by the platform is the incitement to hate.
According to the video portal, the 1143 channel would have been blocked after detecting numerous videos with strong hate speechsomething that contradicts YouTube’s internal rules.
A journalistic investigation
The decision is a consequence, specifically, of the questions sent to YouTube by the American newspaper ‘New York Times’, who is keeping track of the radicalization of said group.
Journalists have begun to draw the line after the extremist organization called a demonstration with the slogan ‘Against the Islamization of Europe’held in Lisbon at the beginning of February of this year.
Violence against migrants
‘New York Times’ would be doing a much broader investigation into how online hate against immigrants It is an engine of violence against these communities in the real world.
The group 1143, whose number represents the year in which Portugal was born as a sovereign nation, is led by the neo-Nazi activist Mario Machadowho served time behind bars for assault, racial discrimination and other crimes.
