Danney Williams and Bill Clinton
But YouTube suddenly reversed its decision on Thursday amid public outcry and reinstated the account in the early morning hours, posting a notice that said only: "After a review of your account, we have confirmed that your YouTube account is not in violation of our Terms of Service. As such, we have unsuspended your account."
When it terminated the account on Wednesday, YouTube cited unspecified "repeated or severe violations of our Terms of Use and/or Community Guidelines" and declared the account "cannot be restored."
The YouTube decision to terminate Williams' account blocked the nine-minute feature "BANISHED - The Untold Story of Danney Williams," which had received 1.2 million views since Williams posted it last week. Produced by filmmaker Joel Gilbert, it drew nearly 100,000 views per day and more than 1,000 viewer comments, with the overwhelming majority expressing support for Williams and outrage at the Clintons for not being willing to allow a DNA test to determine paternity.
"My YouTube account has been deleted, but the same video appears in 50 other places on YouTube alone," Williams said on his Facebook page after being notified of YouTube's decision to suspend the account. "[YouTube] can't handle the truth! Please share #BillClintonSon."
Twitter also continued to allow Williams to post the "Banished" video on Danney Williams' page, but the Twitter link to YouTube displayed the message: "This video is no longer available because the YouTube account associated with this video has been terminated. Sorry about that."
The video is still running on Danney Williams-Clinton's Facebook page, as well as on the YouTube channel operated by Gilbert.
Attempt to silence Danney Williams?
Gilbert told WND on Wednesday he helped Williams file an online appeal form on YouTube asking why the account was suspended and demanding it be immediately reinstated.
"The behavior of YouTube/Google in suspending Danney's account is outrageous! There have been absolutely zero violations of any kind let alone a severe one of any YouTube terms or guidelines," Gilbert said.
Gilbert was outspoken in charging YouTube with partisan political motives.
"The only possible explanation is that the Clinton campaign requested YouTube/Google to silence Danney, 'to run him off the plantation' as Danney said Hillary Clinton did to him and his aunt when he was a small child and they were chased off the grounds of the Arkansas governor's mansion in 1990," Gilbert said.
"Danney cannot be silenced any longer," he continued. "Hillary may try to sweep Danney Williams under the rug, but it's not going to work this time. His story is out there, and every day more and more people understand Bill and Hillary Clinton banished this young man from their family because of the color of his skin."
See the Danney Williams video feature:
WND reported Oct. 19 that in the hours before the third and final presidential debate, attorneys for Williams were in Las Vegas to announce their intention to file a paternity suit demanding DNA evidence from the former president.
Accompanying the dramatic announcement was a rap music video celebrating Williams that went viral on the Internet.
No definitive DNA test
WND reported that no DNA test was conducted in 1999, despite media reports to the contrary when Williams' claim first surfaced.
Clinton defenders since 1999 have contended the tabloid Star Magazine conducted a "DNA showdown" proving Bill Clinton was not Williams' father, citing Star Magazine editor Phil Bunton saying at the time, "There was no match, nothing even close."
But in an interview, Bunton told WND that no blood sample was obtained from Clinton and Star Magazine never published a story documenting a laboratory test.
"I don't remember ever seeing any laboratory test that was done on Clinton's DNA," Bunton told WND.
Bunton is now the owner of the Rivertown Magazine in Haverstraw, New York.
He affirmed to WND that the tabloid relied on the DNA evidence for Clinton published by independent counsel Kenneth Starr, extracted from the infamous Monica Lewinsky blue dress.
"We got a lot of phone calls from several people in the media, including the New York Times, wanting to know when we were going to get the DNA back," Bunton recalled to WND. "We thought it was going to turn out to be his son, but when the DNA came back there was no story there even to write."
The DNA test released by Kenneth Starr was the second of two DNA laboratory tests the FBI had run on Clinton, but the public record leaves no doubt that Starr withheld the more robust test conducted by the FBI.
'Twitter rules'
Many other figures who have challenged the Democratic Party or the left-leaning media narrative also have run into trouble with social media outlets, including James O'Keefe and his Project Veritas, which has exposed Clinton campaign voter fraud and agitation in a series of hidden-camera videos.
- Just as O'Keefe was preparing to release new revelations of voter fraud Oct. 13, Twitter shut down his account, claiming violations of "Twitter Rules." The notice said he "must delete the tweets that are in violation of our rules, which prohibit: harassing other users, threatening other users, disclosing other users' private information" or violating "other rules." In a statement, O'Keefe said he relies on social media to "bypass the media and directly reach the public."
- On Monday, O'Keefe wrote in a tweet Project Veritas was unable to upload its third video in the series to YouTube, calling the apparent block "bizarre."
- Earlier this month, O'Keefe was forced to delete a tweet critical of a Hillary Clinton staffer to regain use of his account after it was suspended for a day. His account was suspended in the hours before a release of a new hidden-camera video that exposed a Clinton ally saying she could use executive action on guns, the Daily Caller reported.
- Project Veritas posted an undercover video Oct. 17 proving Hillary Clinton supporters were inciting violence at Donald Trump rallies to gain negative media coverage. Millions of viewers watched the video in just a few hours, but it didn't show up on Google's "trending" list on YouTube, which Google owns, noted SilenceisConsent.net. It did, however, trend on Twitter, which Google does not own.
- Breitbart blogger Milo Yiannopoulos was suspended permanently by Twitter minutes before his "Gays for Trump" party at the Republican National Convention.
- For some 11 months, the makers of the new movie "I'm Not Ashamed," about the first victim of the Columbine killers in Colorado in 1999, were unable to promote their movie through YouTube. The trailer was taken down late in 2015, and the movie's entire channel was suspended.
- Conservative activist and Trump supporter Lauren Southern received a 30-day ban from Facebook because she complained about a friend's account being censored.
- Facebook locked a 12-year-old black middle schooler's account for posting a video supporting Rudy Giuliani's comment that Obama "doesn't love America."
- The admin of a pro-Trump group was banned for saying Trump is not anti-Muslim, but anti-ISIS.
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