I believe YouTube is actively promoting pro-Chinese government, anti-American content while suppressing voices critical of China's communist regime. Why? Because it is happening to me.

Winston Sterzel was China’s first YouTuber. I was there in the beginning as well. We created and built our channels just as China was starting to crack down on American social media platforms and news sites from abroad.

During the decade-plus we lived in China, we used our channels to highlight the incredible people, places and cultures there. We rode our motorcycles across China, filmed multiple documentaries about it and posted videos about daily life there. We started families. We built our channels to more than a million subscribers each, with hundreds of millions of total views. We became two of the most prominent voices on YouTube regarding China.

But beginning a few years ago, life began to change. An increasingly paranoid Chinese government became more and more hostile toward us and our content, despite our attempts to celebrate the positive side of life in China and avoid sensitive political topics. We both reached a point where we felt it was no longer safe to remain in China. We moved to the U.S. — my native country and a new home for Winston, a South African.

Our experiences just before leaving China radically changed our views, which our move to America finally gave us freedom to express. We were able to criticize China's communist government openly as an unjust and negative influence on both the Chinese people and the rest of the world. We started using our platforms to shine a light on the Chinese Communist Party's behavior toward both its own citizens and the rest of the world.

Our audience grew rapidly throughout this change in our content's direction. During our coverage of China's role in creating the COVID-19 pandemic, we saw the Chinese government attempting to control........

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