{"id":1198973,"date":"2022-01-08T04:05:53","date_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198973"},"modified":"2022-01-08T04:05:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-08T09:05:57","slug":"exclusive-singer-songwriter-john-ondrasik-responds-to-youtube-banning-afghanistan-themed-blood-on-my-hands-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-singer-songwriter-john-ondrasik-responds-to-youtube-banning-afghanistan-themed-blood-on-my-hands-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Singer-Songwriter John Ondrasik Responds to YouTube Banning Afghanistan-Themed &#039;Blood on My Hands&#039; Music Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-singer-songwriter-john-ondrasik-responds-to-youtube-banning-afghanistan-themed-blood-on-my-hands-music-video%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1198973&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/JohnOndrasik1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik has responded to YouTube\u2019s decision to censor his new \u201c\u2018Blood on My Hands\u201d music video, exclusively telling Breitbart News that if the platform doesn\u2019t reverse the ban, it&nbsp;would validate assumptions that YouTube had political motives to silence him.<\/p>\n<p>Since it was uploaded this week, the&nbsp;\u201c\u2018Blood on My Hands\u201d music video has garnered widespread attention for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/01\/03\/john-ondrasik-holds-biden-administration-accountable-for-afghanistan-disaster-in-new-blood-on-my-hands-music-video\/\">effort to hold the Biden administration accountable<\/a> for the U.S.\u2019s catastrophic and fatal withdrawal from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Filmed outside the White House, the video features Ondrasik, who performs under the name name Five for Fighting, performing his 2021 song interspersed with news clips of President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, and other officials attempting to downplay or brush aside concerns about the military and humanitarian catastrophe.<\/p>\n<p>The video also features intense images of human atrocities committed by the Taliban, which easily seized control of the country following Biden\u2019s disastrous retreat.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube removed the video Friday, telling Ondrasik that it violated the site\u2019s \u201cgraphic content policy.\u201d But the singer said YouTube had earlier reviewed and inserted an age restriction that the singer said was \u201cappropriate.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Ondrasik said he has also found many YouTube videos containing similar Taliban atrocities that YouTube hasn\u2019t censored and is presumably profiting from.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have just received notification that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YouTube<\/a> has taken down the Blood on My Hands \u2013 White House Docu-Music video. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SIFy13ftE4\">pic.twitter.com\/SIFy13ftE4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnondrasik\/status\/1479524323182276610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In an exclusive statement to Breitbart News, the singer said he hopes the Google-owned YouTube will reverse the ban.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope YouTube reassesses their decision to take down my video shedding light on the massive humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and raising money for the private orgs keeping the promise to rescue American citizens and allies we abandoned to the Taliban,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo not do so, would validate those claiming YouTube had a political motive for this action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Breitbart News has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/08\/26\/youtube-censorship-is-good-for-business\/\">reported<\/a>, YouTube\u2019s aggressive censorship of conservative, independent, and non-leftist voices is prompting an exodus to alternative video platforms, including Rumble, which has attracted Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R), journalist Glenn Greenwald, and former Democratic presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201c\u2018Blood on My Hands\u201d music video is still viewable on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">01\/03\/21<br \/>Abandoned to Taliban<\/p>\n<p>American Citizens\u2013100+<br \/>Allies\u201360K+<br \/>Afghan Brothers in Arms 200K<br \/>Women Rights Decimation 20M<br \/>Music Outlawed<br \/>LGBTQ hunted <br \/>Children sold for food <br \/>Accountability \u2013 0<\/p>\n<p>Blood On My Hands \u2013 White House <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VMARuBAFy9\">https:\/\/t.co\/VMARuBAFy9<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AmericansforAfghanistan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AmericansforAfghanistan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rTsUBbQvf0\">pic.twitter.com\/rTsUBbQvf0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 John Ondrasik (@johnondrasik) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnondrasik\/status\/1478001918127403008?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow David Ng on Twitter&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HeyItsDavidNg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@HeyItsDavidNg<\/a>. Have a tip? Contact me at&nbsp;<a class=\"c-link x5l\" href=\"mailto:dng@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">dng@breitbart.com<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singer-songwriter John Ondrasik has responded to YouTube\u2019s decision to censor his new \u201c\u2018Blood on My Hands\u201d music video, exclusively telling Breitbart News that if the platform doesn\u2019t reverse the ban, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1198973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1198973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1198973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1198973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}